TODAY IN HISTORY

Today is Monday, June 15, 2020

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 fullydocumented 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.

1846 - The United States and Britain settled a boundary dispute concerning the boundary between the US and Canada, by signing a treaty. 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 World War II. 1947 - The All-Indian Congress accepted a British plan for the partition of India.

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.

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