Hisdates•ComPage 8: Historical Events In June - 15
Sunday, 17 August 2025
1979 Ernst Meister, writer, dies at 67 on this day in history. 
1980 Jorge Orta of Cleveland gets 6 hits in a baseball game on June - 15.
1982 On June - 15 riots in Argentina after Falklands/Malvinas defeat
1982 Art[hur E] Pepper, US, alto saxophonist, dies at 56 on June - 15.
1983 On this day in history supreme Court struck down state & local restrictions on abortion
1984 On this day in history thomas Hearns KOs Roberto Duran
1984 On this day in history meredith Willson, composer (Meredith Willson Show), dies at 82
1985 On this day in history en route to Halley's Comet, USSR's Vega 2 drops lander on Venus
1985 On this day in history len Hopwood, cricketer (took 0-155 in two Tests Eng v Aust 1934), dies
1986 Pravda announces high-level Chernobyl staff fired for stupidity on June - 15.
1986 On this day in history k K Tarapore, cricketer (Test for India 1948), killed by motor-scooter
1987 On June - 15 j A K Cochrane, cricketer (Test for S Afr 1931), dies
1988 On this day in history nASA launches space vehicle S-213
1989 Ronald Reagan is knighted by Queen Elizabeth on this day in history.
1989 Ray McAnally, actor (My Left Foot, Empire State), dies in Dublin at 63 on this day in history.
1990 On June - 15 "Dick Tracy" with Warren Beatty premiers
1991 Philippines volcano Mount Pinatubo errupts on this day in history.
1992 Ghana Airways inaugurates flights to JFK Airport (NYC) on this day in history.
1992 Eddie Lopat, pitcher (NY Yankees), dies at 73 on this day in history.
1993 John Connally, the former Texas governor wounded when President John F. Kennedy was killed, dies at age 76 on this day in history.
1993 John Connally, (Gov-D/R-Texas), dies at 76 on this day in history.
1994 David Lawson, executed in NC (wanted execution shown on Donahue) on this day in history.
2007 Bob Barker airs his last episode of The Price is Right on June - 15.
2012 Apple I computer sells for a record $374,500 on June - 15.
2014 Juan Manuel Santos is reelected President of Columbia on June - 15.
2017 Scotland Yard launches criminal inquiry and British Prime Minister Theresa May announces a public inquiry a day after the Grenfell Tower fire on June - 15.
2017 New record set for price of a parking lot in Hong Kong - $664,000 on June - 15.
2017 On June - 15 rebel Wilson win defamation case against Bauer Media at The Supreme Court of Victoria in Melbourne
2018 World Cup: Portugal 3. Spain 3 - Cristiano Renaldo scores hat-trick - 4th player to score in 4 different WC's - 1st to score in 8 consecutive major tournaments on June - 15.
2018 Physicist Stephen Hawking 's ashes are interred in Westminster Abbey, London, between the remains of Isaac Newton and Charles Darwin on this day in history.
2018 On June - 15 theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes charged with fraud over company's blood tests
2018 Glasgow School of Art, designed by Charles Rennie Mackintosh burns down, four years after a previous fire on June - 15.
2019 On this day in history baseball jersey belonging to Babe Ruth becomes most expensive sports memorabilia when it sells for $5.64 million at an auction in New York
2019 Hong Kong anti-extradition bill protests: Hong Kong announces it will indefinitely suspend the controversial extradition bill, but protests continue, this time calling for the total withdrawal of the bill and the resignation of Chief Executive Carrie Lam on June - 15.
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