June 15 is the 167th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. If the ancient Mayans were correct, there are 189 days remaining until the end of time.
1215 King John signs Magna Carta under duress at Runnymede, England
1857 San Francisco Water Works is organized
1864 Robert E. Lee's backyard in Arlington, Virginia, becomes a Union military cemetery
1877 Henry O. Flipper becomes 1st black graduate at West Point (His descendants are in my parish)
1878 1st attempt at motion pictures (used 12 cameras, each taking 1 picture) done to see if all 4 of a horse's hooves leave the ground. Hmmm, I wonder if this guy took any other pictures?!?!?
1888 Crown Prince Wilhelm becomes Kaiser Wilhelm II. And how does that work out?
1916 Boys Scouts of America receives federal charter
1924 J. Edgar Hoover, closeted homosexual, assumes leadership of the FBI. OMG, he’s hot! Who knew?
1956 John Lennon (15) and Paul McCartney (13) meet for 1st time as Lennon's rock group Quarrymen perform at a church dinner
1968 Yummy Yummy Yummy (I Got Love In My Tummy) by Ohio Express hits #4
1974 "Streak" by Ray Stevens hit #1 on UK pop chart
1982 US Supreme Court rules all children, regardless of citizenship, are entitled to a public education
1983 Supreme Court strikes down state and local restrictions on abortion
1992 During spelling bee, US Vice President Dan Quayle misspells potato, as potatoe
2002 Near-Earth asteroid 2002 MN misses the Earth by 75,000 miles (121,000 km), about one-third of the distance between the Earth and the Moon
1923 Erroll Garner, maybe gay US jazz, swing, bop pianist and composer
1943 Xaviera Hollander [Vera de Vries], bisexual Dutch sex worker/author/the Happy Hooker, ended a 10 year relationship with a woman and married a man 10 years her junior
1949 Simon Callow, gay English writer/director/actor
1991 Mount Pinatubo (Philippines) erupts for 1st time in 600 years. Danny Pintauro (California), however, is still looking to erupt
1994 Gen H Norman Schwarzkopf released from hospital after prostate surgery. Here’s Norm and what the doctor saw
2001 Crown Prince Diprenda (left), the heir to the Nepalese throne kills his parents and eight other family members before shooting himself, after an argument over his choice of a bride. Nepal kicks out his bumbling uncle, the new king, Gyanendra, and becomes a republic on May 29, 2008
2007 Dr. Jack Kevorkian is released from prison after serving eight years of his 10-25 year prison term for second-degree murder in the 1998 assisted suicide death of Thomas Youk, 52, of Oakland County, Michigan.
1926 Marilyn Monroe, The Ultimate Sex Symbol/US actress/singer
1934 Pat Boone, US singer/actor/asshole homophobe with little dick
