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1215: Magna Carta sealed by King John
Magna Carta—a charter of English liberties that occupies a unique place in the popular imagination as a symbol and a battle cry against oppression—was sealed this day, under threat of civil war, by King John in 1215.
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1381: Richard II in England meets leaders of the Peasants’ Revolt on Blackheath. The Tower of London is stormed by rebels who enter without resistance.
1844: Charles Goodyear
Charles Goodyear received a patent for the process of rubber vulcanization.
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1904: The first recorded football match in Nigeria is played, in Calabar, British Nigeria. Football has been introduced to the country by Britain and will become the national sport.
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1930: Trinidad-born aviator, showman, and self-promoter Hubert Julian, who became the first black parachutist when he jumped out of a plane over New York in 1923 while performing the song Running Wild on a gold-plated saxophone, arrives in Addis-Ababa. He announces that Emperor Haile Selassie has made him head of the Ethiopian Air Force. However, after he crashes Selassie’s favorite plane – one of only three planes the Air Force owns – he will be asked to leave the country.
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1938: Zerai Deres, an Eritrean working in Rome as a translator, is mocked by a crowd of Italians when he kneels and prays before the Lion of Judah statue that was looted from Addis Ababa in 1935 and mounted as a war trophy at Italy’s capital. When fascist soldiers tell him to stop, he pulls out a scimitar, shouts protests against Italy’s occupation of his home country, and wounds two soldiers. He is shot dead but becomes a national hero in Eritrea.
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1986: It’s Father’s Day, and Burkina Faso’s President and revolutionary hero Thomas Sankara is out of uniform and fooling around with his sons Phillipe and Auguste. His time with his family will prove limited before the Pan-Africanist icon’s assassination next year.
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1993: Another interim Order by an Abuja Court restrains NEC from releasing the results of the presidential elections in Nigeria.
1994: The release of the movie The Lion King. The Disney Studio musical will be the top-grossing film of 1994 and the highest-grossing animated film of all time. It is the first Disney movie to be dubbed in isiZulu. Preparing the film, animators researched the story’s many African animal types at Kenya’s Hell’s Gate National Park.
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1996: Ella Fitzgerald
American singer Ella Fitzgerald—who was known for her enormous vocal range and inventive interpretations, in both ballads and jazz improvisations known as scat—died at age 79.
1982: Argentina surrenders to the United Kingdom, ending the 74-day Falklands Islands conflict.
1991: Mount Pinatubo explodes
The stratovolcano’s eruption was one of the most violent of the 20th century. About 800 people died, but the event had also global consequences. For example, it caused a global temperature drop of 0.5 °C (0.9 °F).
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1996: Ella Jane Fitzgerald an American jazz singer, sometimes referred to as the “First Lady of Song”, “Queen of Jazz”, and “Lady Ella” dies at the age of 79. She was noted for her purity of tone, impeccable diction, phrasing, timing, intonation, and a “horn-like” improvisational ability, particularly in her scat singing.
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1977: Spain holds the first free elections since 1936
The transition to democracy followed nearly four decades of right-wing dictatorship under Francisco Franco. Adolfo Suárez became Spain’s first democratically elected Prime Minister.
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1954: The Union of European Football Associations is founded
The UEFA is the umbrella organization for association football in Europe. It comprises 54 member countries in Europe and Asia.
1667: The first human blood transfusion is administered. Jean-Baptiste Denys, physician to King Louis XIV of France, transfused sheep blood into a 15-year-old boy. He survived, most likely due to the relatively small amount of blood used.
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BIRTHS ON THIS DAY: June 15
Xi Jinping, 71 years
Xi Jinping is a Chinese politician who has been the general secretary of the Chinese Communist Party and chairman of the Central Military Commission, and thus the paramount leader of China, since 2012. Xi has also been the president of the People’s Republic of China since 2013.
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Ice Cube, 55 years
O’Shea Jackson Sr. (born June 15, 1969), known professionally as Ice Cube, is an American rapper, songwriter, actor, and film producer. His lyrics on N.W.A’s 1988 album Straight Outta Compton contributed to gangsta rap’s widespread popularity, and his political rap solo albums AmeriKKKa’s Most Wanted, Death Certificate, and The Predator were all critically and commercially successful.
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Leah Remini, 54 years
Leah Marie Remini is an American actress. She starred as Carrie Heffernan on the CBS sitcom The King of Queens and as Vanessa Celluci in the CBS sitcom, Kevin Can Wait, both alongside Kevin James.
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