📜 This Day in History
June 15
763 BCThe Bur-Sagale eclipse was observed in Assyria, the earliest solar eclipse mentioned in historical sources that has been successfully identified.- 1800War of the Second Coalition: The signing of the Convention of Alessandria brought temporary peace between France and Austria.
- 1896A magnitude-8.5 earthquake and a subsequent tsunami struck Japan, killing at least 22,000 people and destroying about 9,000 homes.
- 1921Bessie Coleman became the first Black person to earn an international pilot's license from the Fédération Aéronautique Internationale.
- 1991An eruption of Mount Pinatubo in the Philippines deposited large amounts of particulate matter into the atmosphere, enough to briefly lower global temperatures by about 0.5 °C (0.9 °F).
- 2006US 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.
