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1215 : The seal of the king is placed on the Magna Carta


On 15 June 1215, the English barons in revolt against the English king John Lackland, forced the king to affix his seal to the Magna Carta, a document recognizing the rights of feudal lords and limiting the arbitrariness of royal power (creation of habeas corpus by example forbidding arbitrary imprisonment). The king refused the application once he was free to act and the civil war continued until his death. The Magna Carta was phased in and became a precedent (English law is based on the rule of precedent) at the end of the 13th century.

1904 : Tragedy on the East River


On 15 June 1904, on the East River in New York, a fire broke out on a steamboat, the General Slocum, carrying 1360 people, mostly children and their teachers to the annual picnic of their school. Instead of heading to a dock, the captain directed his boat to a small island on the rocks of which it crashed. The lifeboats were unusable and the life jackets did not float but instead sank people who wore them to the bottom. People who did not die drowned or burned are trampled because of panic. 1031 people were killed.

1920 : Lynching in Minnesota


On June 15, 1920, a crowd of 5000 people broke into the city jail in Duluth, Minnesota, seized 3 Black suspects in a case of rape of a white girl and lynched them in the street.
The suspects were arrested with three other colleagues while working for a circus, following a complaint from two teenagers from the city for assault and rape the night before. The newspapers reported the incident and rumor had spread in the town that the girl had been killed.
In fact, the doctor who had examined the girl found no signs of assault or rape.
Leaders of the lynching were not prosecuted.

2009 : Repression of a peaceful demonstration in Iran


On June 15, 2009, a peaceful protest of 1.5 to 3 million people protesting against the results of the presidential election in Iran was repressed by government forces. Dozens of people were killed and hundreds more were arrested. On the night of June 14 to 15, five students had been killed in a forceful intervention of Basij at Tehran University.

Citazione del giorno : 15 Giugno

Raymond Devos
From the moment you laugh at the things, they are not dangerous anymore.

Compleanni : 15 Giugno

Nicolas Poussin, Pittore francese (1594)
Edvard Grieg, Compositore norvegese (1843)
David Rose, Compositore americano (1910)
Youri Andropov, Uomo politico sovietico (1914)
Thomas Huckle Weller, Virologo americano (1915)
John Fenn , Chimico statunitense, premio Nobel per la Chimica (1917)
Alberto Sordi, Attore e regista italiano (1920)
Ezer Weizman, Settimo Presidente di Israele (1924)
Ibn-e-Insha, Poeta e umorista pakistano (1927)
Hugo Pratt, Vignettista italiano (Corto Maltese) (1927)
Mario Cuomo, 52a Governatore dello Stato di New York (1932)
Guy Bedos, Comico francese (1934)
Claude Brasseur, Attore francese (1936)
Johnny Hallyday, Cantante francese (1943)
Brigitte Fossey, Attrice francese (1946)
James Belushi, Attore americano (1954)
Julie Hagerty, Attrice americana (1955)
Michèle Laroque, Attrice e umorista francese (1960)
Helen Hunt, Attrice americana (1963)
Courteney Cox, Attrice americana (1964)
Ice Cube, Rapper e attore americano (1969)
Cédric Pioline, Tennista francese (1969)
Julia Fischer, Violinista tedesca (1983)
Aurélie Vaneck, Attrice francese (1983)

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Wendell Meredith Stanley, Biochimico statunitense, premio Nobel (1971)
Victor French, Attore americano (1989)
Ella Fitzgerald, Cantante jazz americana (1996)
Choi Hong Hi, Fondatore del taekwondo (2002)
Hume Cronyn, Attore canadese (2003)
Suzanne Flon, Attrice francese (2005)
Raymond Devos, Umorista belga-francese (2006)
Stan Winston, Supervisore effetti visivi americano (2008)
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