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<p><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/June_15" title="June 15">June 15</a></b>
</p><ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1215" title="1215">1215</a> – <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John,_King_of_England" title="John, King of England">King John of England</a> and a group of rebel barons agreed on the text of <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magna_Carta" title="Magna Carta">Magna Carta</a></b>, an influential <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_of_rights" title="Bill of rights">charter of rights</a>.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1520" title="1520">1520</a> – <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_Leo_X" title="Pope Leo X">Pope Leo X</a> issued the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Papal_bull" title="Papal bull">papal bull</a> <i><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exsurge_Domine" title="Exsurge Domine">Exsurge Domine</a></b></i>, censuring 41 propositions from <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Luther" title="Martin Luther">Martin Luther</a>'s <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ninety-five_Theses" title="Ninety-five Theses">Ninety-five Theses</a></i> and subsequent writings, and threatening him with <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Excommunication" title="Excommunication">excommunication</a> unless he recanted.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1921" title="1921">1921</a> – <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bessie_Coleman" title="Bessie Coleman">Bessie Coleman</a></b> became the first Black person to earn an <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pilot_licensing_and_certification" title="Pilot licensing and certification">international pilot's license</a> from the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F%C3%A9d%C3%A9ration_A%C3%A9ronautique_Internationale" title="Fédération Aéronautique Internationale">Fédération Aéronautique Internationale</a>.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1995" title="1995">1995</a> – Western Greece was struck by <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1995_Aigio_earthquake" title="1995 Aigio earthquake">an earthquake</a></b> registering 6.4–6.5 <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moment_magnitude_scale" title="Moment magnitude scale">M<sub>w</sub></a> that killed 26 people.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2006" title="2006">2006</a> – US president <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_W._Bush" title="George W. Bush">George W. Bush</a> designated 140,000 square miles (360,000 km<sup>2</sup>) around the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northwestern_Hawaiian_Islands" title="Northwestern Hawaiian Islands">Northwestern Hawaiian Islands</a> as the <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Papah%C4%81naumoku%C4%81kea_Marine_National_Monument" title="Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument">Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument</a></b>, now one of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_largest_protected_areas" title="List of largest protected areas">world's largest protected areas</a>.</li></ul>
<p><b>Births and Deaths: </b><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisa_del_Giocondo" title="Lisa del Giocondo">Lisa del Giocondo</a></b> (<abbr title="born">b.</abbr> 1479); <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mehmed_Rashid_Pasha" title="Mehmed Rashid Pasha">Mehmed Rashid Pasha</a></b> (<abbr title="died">d.</abbr> 1876); <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miriam_Soljak" title="Miriam Soljak">Miriam Soljak</a></b> (<abbr title="born">b.</abbr> 1879); <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xi_Jinping" title="Xi Jinping">Xi Jinping</a></b> (<abbr title="born">b.</abbr> 1953)</p>
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