Efeméride del 15 Junio

eso ha pasado un 15 Junio

1215 : The seal of the king is placed on the Magna Carta On 15 June 1215, the English barons in revolt against the English king John Lackland, forced the king to affix his seal to the Magna Carta, a document recognizing the rights of feudal lords and limiting the arbitrariness of royal power (creation of habeas corpus by example forbidding arbitrary imprisonment). The king refused the application once he was free to act and the civil war continued until his death. The Magna Carta was phased in and became a precedent (English law is based on the rule of precedent) at the end of the 13th century.
1904 : Tragedy on the East River On 15 June 1904, on the East River in New York, a fire broke out on a steamboat, the General Slocum, carrying 1360 people, mostly children and their teachers to the annual picnic of their school. Instead of heading to a dock, the captain directed his boat to a small island on the rocks of which it crashed. The lifeboats were unusable and the life jackets did not float but instead sank people who wore them to the bottom. People who did not die drowned or burned are trampled because of panic. 1031 people were killed.
1920 : Lynching in Minnesota On June 15, 1920, a crowd of 5000 people broke into the city jail in Duluth, Minnesota, seized 3 Black suspects in a case of rape of a white girl and lynched them in the street. The suspects were arrested with three other colleagues while working for a circus, following a complaint from two teenagers from the city for assault and rape the night before. The newspapers reported the incident and rumor had spread in the town that the girl had been killed. In fact, the doctor who had examined the girl found no signs of assault or rape. Leaders of the lynching were not prosecuted.
2009 : Repression of a peaceful demonstration in Iran El 15 de junio de 2009, una protesta pacífica de 1,5 a 3 millones de personas para protestar por los resultados de las elecciones presidenciales en Irán es reprimida por las fuerzas gubernamentales. Docenas de personas murieron y cientos más fueron detenidos. En la noche del 14 de junio a 15, cinco estudiantes murieron en una intervención por la fuerza de Basij en la Universidad de Teherán.

Cita del día : 15 Junio

Raymond Devos
From the moment you laugh at the things, they are not dangerous anymore.

Cumpleaños : 15 Junio

Nicolas Poussin, Pintor francés (1594)
Edvard Grieg, Compositor noruego (1843)
David Rose, Compositor estadounidense (1910)
Youri Andropov, Político soviético (1914)
Thomas Huckle Weller, Virólogo estadounidense (1915)
John Fenn , Químico estadounidense, Premio Nobel (1917)
Alberto Sordi, Actor y director de cine italiano (1920)
Ezer Weizman, Séptimo presidente de Israel (1924)
Ibn-e-Insha, Poeta y humorista de Pakistán (1927)
Hugo Pratt, Dibujante italiano (Corto Maltese) (1927)
Mario Cuomo, 52a Gobernador del estado de Nueva York (1932)
Guy Bedos, Humorista francés (1934)
Claude Brasseur, Actor francés (1936)
Johnny Hallyday, Cantante francés (1943)
Brigitte Fossey, Actriz francesa (1946)
James Belushi, Actor americano (1954)
Julie Hagerty, Actriz americana (1955)
Michèle Laroque, Actriz y humorista francesa (1960)
Helen Hunt, Actriz americana (1963)
Courteney Cox, Actriz americana (1964)
Ice Cube, Rapper y actor estadounidense (1969)
Cédric Pioline, Jugador de tenis francés (1969)
Julia Fischer, Violinista alemana (1983)
Aurélie Vaneck, Actriz francesa (1983)

Nos han dejado un 15 Junio

Wendell Meredith Stanley, Bioquímico estadounidense, Premio Nobel (1971)
Victor French, Actor americano (1989)
Ella Fitzgerald, Cantante de jazz estadounidense (1996)
Choi Hong Hi, Fundador del taekwondo (2002)
Hume Cronyn, Actor canadiense (2003)
Suzanne Flon, Actriz francesa (2005)
Raymond Devos, Humorista franco-belga (2006)
Stan Winston, Supervisor de efectos visuales estadunidense (2008)