06-15-2006, 07:15 AM
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June 15th
1215 ~ King John put his seal to the Magna Carta at Runnymede, England.
1752 ~ Benjamin Franklin showed that lightning is electricity.
1844 ~ Charles Goodyear received a patent for a process to strengthen rubber.
1843 ~ Birthday of Edvard Grieg, Norwegian Composer.
1904 ~ A fire aboard the steamboat General Slocum killed a 1,000 people.
1978 ~ King Hussein of Jordan married 26-year-old Lisa Halaby, who became Queen Noor.
1983 ~ Julia Fischer, German Violinist.
1995 ~ Death of John Vincent Atanasoff, computer pioneer.
1996 ~ In Manchester, U.K., a terrorist bomb injured over 200 people.
1996 ~ Death of Ella Fitzgerald, Jazz singer.
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