TODAY IN HISTORY

TODAY IS THURSDAY, JUNE 15, 2017

ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY:

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

1381 - The English peasant revolt was crushed in London.

1389 - Ottoman Turks crushed Serbia in the Battle of Kosovo.

1667 - Jean-Baptiste Denys administered the first fully-documented human blood transfusion. He successfully transfused the blood of a sheep to a 15-year old boy.

1752 - Benjamin Franklin experimented by flying a kite during a thunderstorm. The result was a little spark that showed the relationship between lightning and electricity.

1862 - Australia’s largest ever gold robbery is carried out by bushranger Frank Gardiner near Forbes, New South Wales.

1866 - Prussia attacked Austria.

1917 - Great Britain pledged the release of all the Irish captured during the Easter Rebellion of 1916.

1940 - The French fortress of Verdun was captured by Germans.

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

1947 - The All-Indian Congress accepted a British plan for the partition of India.

1948 - Soviet authorities announced that the Autobahn would be closed indefinitely “for repairs.”

1958 - Greece severed military ties to Turkey because of the Cypress issue.

1964 - The last French troops left Algeria.

1978 - King Hussein of Jordan married 26-year-old American Lisa Halaby, who became Queen Noor.

1982 - In the capital city of Stanley, the Falklands war ended as Argentine troops surrendered to the British.

1986 - Pravda, the Communist Party newspaper, reported that the chief engineer of the Chernobyl nuclear plant was dismissed for mishandling the incident at the plant.

1994 - Israel and the Vatican established full diplomatic relations.

1999 - South Korean naval forces sank a North Korean torpedo boat during an exchange in the disputed Yellow Sea.