History for June 15

History for June 15 - On-This-Day.com
Erik H. Erickson 1902 - Psychologist and psychoanalyst, Waylon Jennings 1937, Harry Nilsson 1941


Jim Varney 1949, Helen Hunt 1963, Neil Patrick Harris 1973


1215 - King John of England put his seal on the Magna Carta.


1844 - Charles Goodyear was granted a patent for the process that strengthens rubber.


1846 - The United States and Britain settled a boundary dispute concerning the boundary between the U.S. and Canada, by signing a treaty.


1911 - The Computing-Tabulating-Recording Co. was incorporated in the state of New York. The company was later renamed International Business Machines (IBM) Corp.


1919 - Captain John Alcock and Lt. Arthur W. Brown won $50,000 for successfully completing the first, non-stop trans-Atlantic plane flight.


1944 - American forces began their successful invasion of Saipan during World War II.


1992 - It was ruled by the U.S. Supreme Court that the government could kidnap criminal suspects from foreign countries for prosecution.