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On This Day In History for June 15, 2022

This is the 166th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 199 days remaining in 2022.

It was on this date in 763 BC, that Assyrians recorded a solar eclipse that is later used to fix the chronology of Mesopotamian history.

King John of England put his seal to Magna Carta on this date in 1215

June 15, 1502, Christopher Columbus landed on the island of Martinique on his fourth voyage

355 years ago today, The first human blood transfusion was administered by Dr. Jean-Baptiste Denys

It was 270 years ago today, that Benjamin Franklin proved that lightning is electricity (traditional date, the exact date is unknown)

June 15, 1844, Charles Goodyear received a patent for vulcanization, a process to strengthen rubber

That same date in 1919, John Alcock and Arthur Brown completed the first nonstop transatlantic flight when they reach Clifden, County Galway, Ireland

June 15, 1921, Bessie Coleman earned her pilot’s license, becoming the first female pilot of African-American descent

Also on June 15, 1936, First flight of the Vickers Wellington bomber

It was on this date in 2012, that Nik Wallenda became the first person to successfully tightrope walk directly over Niagara Falls

Happy birthday goes out on this date to:

Italian model, subject of the Mona Lisa, Lisa del Giocondo, born on this date in 1479.

Born June 15, 1542, English captain and explorer Richard Grenville.

Juan José Elhuyar, the Spanish chemist and mineralogist was born 268 years ago today.

Thomas Mitchell, Scottish-Australian colonel and explorer was born on that same date in 1792.

German oceanographer and academic, Georg Wüst, born on this date in 1890.

Gordon Welchman, English-American mathematician and author was born on that same date in 1906.

John Fenn, the American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate was born 105 years ago today.

American lighting and production designer Marc Brickman is 69 today.

Listener Birthdays

15 – Miss Eliza Sea from Wingin’ It 3D

16 – Joe Edmisson

16 – Jason from The Angry Geek

17 – Digital Dan from the Hook Show

18 – Luke (platypuss72) from UK

18 – Xianfox from Appleton

19 – Steven (sphen603) from Wichita, Kansas

21 – Ascii Adam from the Hook Show

22 – Lance Heath

22 – Jack Stevens

22 – Chris Martinez (Scotland)

And that’s the way it was, on this day in history for June  15, 2022

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