At this time is Sunday, June 15, the 166th day of 2025. There are 199 days left within the 12 months. That is Father’s Day.
At this time in historical past:
On June 15, 1934, Nice Smoky Mountains Nationwide Park, the most-visited nationwide park in the US, was established by Congress.
Additionally on this date:
In 1215, England’s King John positioned his seal on Magna Carta (“the Nice Constitution”), which curtailed absolutely the energy of the monarchy.
In 1775, the Second Continental Congress voted unanimously to nominate George Washington head of the Continental Military.
In 1864, Secretary of Conflict Edwin M. Stanton signed an order establishing a navy burial floor which grew to become Arlington Nationwide Cemetery in Virginia.
In 1895, a tsunami triggered by a magnitude 8.5 earthquake struck the coast of northeastern Japan with waves reaching a peak of 125 ft (38.1 meters), killing greater than 22,000 individuals.
In 1904, greater than 1,000 individuals died when fireplace erupted aboard the steamboat PS Basic Slocum in New York’s East River; it remained the deadliest particular person occasion within the New York space till 9/11.
In 1934, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed an act making the Nationwide Guard a part of the U.S. Military within the occasion of struggle or nationwide emergency.
In 1938, Johnny Vander Meer of the Cincinnati Reds grew to become the one baseball pitcher to toss two consecutive no-hitters, main the Reds to a 6-0 victory over the Brooklyn Dodgers within the first night time sport at Ebbets Discipline, 4 days after no-hitting the Boston Bees by a rating of 3-0.
In 1991, Mount Pinatubo within the northern Philippines exploded in some of the highly effective volcanic eruptions of the twentieth century, killing greater than 800 individuals.
In 2020, the U.S. Supreme Court docket, with a 6-3 vote in its Bostock v. Clayton County choice, dominated that the Civil Rights Act of 1964 protects homosexual, lesbian and transgender individuals from discrimination in employment.
At this time’s Birthdays:
- Baseball Corridor of Famer Billy Williams is 87.
- Former MLB participant and supervisor Dusty Baker is 76.
- Actor Simon Callow is 76.
- Singer Russell Hitchcock (Air Provide) is 76.
- Chinese language President Xi Jinping is 72.
- Actor-comedian Jim Belushi is 71.
- Actor Julie Hagerty is 70.
- Baseball Corridor of Famer Wade Boggs is 67.
- Actor Helen Hunt is 62.
- Actor Courteney Cox is 61.
- Rapper-actor Ice Dice is 56.
- Actor Leah Remini is 55.
- Actor Neil Patrick Harris is 52.
- Olympic gymnastics gold medalist Madison Kocian is 28.