Today is Saturday, June 15, the 166th day of 2013. There are 199 days left in the year.
763 B.C. ― Assyrians record total solar eclipse event on clay tablet
1215 ― King John signs Magna Carta at Runnymede, England
1381 ― Wat Tyler, leader of English Peasants’ Revolt, beheaded in London
1590 ― Pope Leo X threatens to ex-communicate Martin Luther
1785 ― Two French balloonists die in world's first fatal aviation accident
1869 ― Celluloid patented by John Wesley Hyatt, Albany, N.Y.
1896 ― Tsunami strikes Shinto festival on beach at Sanriku, Japan; 27,000 are killed, 9,000 injured, with 13,000 houses destroyed
1924 ― Native Americans are proclaimed U.S. citizens
1956 ― John Lennon (15) and Paul McCartney (13) meet for first time as Lennon’s rock group, The Quarrymen, perform at a church dinner
1986 ― Pravda announces high-level Chernobyl staff fired for stupidity