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Monday, 15 June 2026
1983 Nolan Ryan strikes out his 3500th batter 
1983 Wayne Gretsky scores 7 points in a playoff game.
1983 Felix Pappalardi, rocker (Cream, Mountain), dies
1985 Ilona Bodden, writer, dies.
1986 Bessie Head, writer, dies
1987 Julius Erving is recorded as becoming the 3rd NBA player to score 30000 points
1987 Carlton Barrett, Jamaican reggae drummer (No woman no cry), dies at 36.
1988 Eva Novak, actress (Medicine Man), dies of pneumonia at 90
1989 Maximum NY State unemployment benefits raised to $245 per week.
1989 Soviet-US agreement allows Soviets to fight US pros
1989 Charles Lampkin, dies
1990 Ralph David Abernathy, US civil rights leader, dies
1991 Dow Jones closes for inaugural time over 3000
1991 Railroad workers go on strike in the US.
1991 Jack Yellen, US poet (Sons o' Fun), dies at 97
1992 Hank Penny, country music singer, dies at 73 of heart failure.
1993 Turgut Ã-zal, president of Turkey (1989-93), dies at 65
1994 Peter Hacker, US journalist/actor (NBC, Broadcast News), dies at 69.
1995 A R A (Anton) Murray, cricketer (289 runs and 11 wkts in 10 Tests), dies
1996 Eva Jones, poet/novelist, dies at 82
1997 Chaim Herzog, President of Israel (1983-93), dies at 78.
2005 Twelve holidaymakers are killed in southern Switzerland when a bus carrying twenty seven people plunges 656 feet into a ravine
2006 A suicide bombing by Islamic Jihad in Tel Aviv results in the deaths of nine people and injures dozens
2007 The Pound Sterling hits a 15-year high against the US dollar, breaking through the US$2 level for the inaugural time since 1992.
2012 The St Cuthbert Gospel, Europe's oldest intact book, purchased by the British Library for 9 million pounds.
2013 5 people are killed in Wana, Pakistan, by a United States drone attack
2014 In this year, Abdelaziz Bouteflika claims a fourth term as President of Algeria.
2017 1st living giant shipworm at 3 ft are discovered in the Philippines, really a type of clam.
2018 In this year, Former F.B.I. director James Comey publishes his political autobiography “A Higher Loyalty: Truth, Lies, and Leadershipâ€.
2018 Protests across India at the rape and murder of an 8-year old Muslim girl in Kathua, Bengalu
2019 In this year, Beyoncé releases a live album of her 2018 Coachella performance on the same day as her Netflix documentary "Homecoming"
2019 The 2019 Indonesian general election takes place; for the President, 575 seats in the People's Representative Council, and 136 seats in the Regional Representative Council
2019 At least 29 people are killed in a bus crash on the Portuguese island of Madeira
2020 The China Securities Regulatory Commission approves a transaction in which Switzerland's Credit Suisse will take a majority interest in a China securities firm, making Credit Suisse the inaugural foreign bank to own a majority of such a company since the easing of foreign ownership rules in 2018
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