Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/June 15

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 * 763 BC – The Bur-Sagale eclipse was observed in Assyria, the earliest solar eclipse mentioned in historical sources that has been successfully identified.
 * 1520 – Pope Leo X issued the papal bull Exsurge Domine, censuring 41 propositions from Martin Luther's Ninety-five Theses and subsequent writings, and threatening him with excommunication unless he recanted.
 * 1859 – The shooting of a pig in the San Juan Islands led to the so-called Pig War over the border between the United States and British North America.
 * 1896 – An earthquake registering 8.5 Mw and subsequent tsunami struck Japan, killing at least 22,000 people and destroying about 9,000 homes.
 * 1920 – Three African-American circus workers were lynched by a mob in Duluth, Minnesota, a crime that shocked the country for having taken place in the Northern United States.
 * 1921 – Bessie Coleman (pictured) became the first Black person to earn an international pilot's license from the Fédération Aéronautique Internationale.
 * 1978 – King Hussein of Jordan married American Lisa Halaby, who became known as Queen Noor of Jordan (pictured).
 * 1991 – The eruption of Mount Pinatubo in the Philippines deposited large amounts of particulate matter into the atmosphere, enough to lower global temperatures by about 0.5 °C (0.9 °F).
 * 1995 – Western Greece was struck by an earthquake registering 6.4–6.5 Mw that killed 26 people.
 * 2001 – Leaders of China, Russia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan formed the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation.
 * 2006 – US president George W. Bush designated 140,000 square miles (360,000 km2) around the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands as the Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument, now one of the world's largest protected areas.
 * 2012 – American acrobat Nik Wallenda became the first person to walk a tightrope stretched directly over Niagara Falls.
 * Born/died: | Eadburh of Winchester |d|960| John VI Kantakouzenos |d|1383| Gabriele Sforza |b|1423|Thomas Randolph |b|1605| Georg Joseph Vogler |b|1749| Antoine-François de Fourcroy |b|1755| Rachel Jackson |b|1767| Adam Eckfeldt |b|1769| James K. Polk |d|1849| Herman Smith-Johannsen |b|1875| Mehmed Rashid Pasha |d|1876| Miriam Soljak|b|1879| Frederick III, German Emperor |d|1888| John Fenn |b|1917| Marcel Pronovost |b|1930| Xi Jinping |b|1953| Oliver Kahn |b|1969| W. Arthur Lewis |d|1991 Choi Hong-hi |d|2002