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This Day in History: June 15
By Bryan Robinson
Published June 15, 2020
On this day, June 15 ...
1864: Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton signs an order establishing a military burial ground that would become Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia.
Also on this day:
- 1904: More than 1,000 people die when a fire erupted aboard the steamboat General Slocum in New York's East River.
- 1934: President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs an act making the National Guard part of the U.S. Army in the event of war or national emergency.
- 1938: Johnny Vander Meer pitches his second consecutive no-hitter, leading the Cincinnati Reds to a 6-0 victory over the Brooklyn Dodgers in the first night game at Ebbets Field, four days after leaving the Boston Bees hitless by a score of 3-0.
- 1955: The United States and Britain sign a cooperation agreement concerning atomic information for "mutual defense purposes."
- 1969: The variety show "Hee Haw" debuts on CBS-TV.
- 1992: Vice President Dan Quayle, relying on a faulty flash card, erroneously instructs sixth-grade student William Figueroa from Trenton, N.J., to spell "potato" as "potatoe" during a spelling bee.
- 1994: Israel and the Vatican establish formal diplomatic relations.
- 1995: O.J. Simpson tries on the gloves, said to have been worn by the killer of his wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ron Goldman, at his trial, and they appear not to fit.
- 2014: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu accuses the Hamas militant group of kidnapping three Israeli teenagers.
- 2018: Theranos founder and former CEO Elizabeth Holmes is charged by the Justice Department for wire fraud schemes.
- 2018: Former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort is jailed to await two criminal trials; a federal judge revokes his house arrest over allegations of witness tampering in Special Counsel Robert Mueller's investigation. (Manafort would be sentenced to more than seven years in prison on federal charges.)
Rene Boucher told authorities he had 'had enough' after Paul stacked brush onto an existing pile. (AP)
- 2018: Rene Boucher, a neighbor of U.S. Sen. Rand Paul, is sentenced to 30 days in prison for attacking Paul while he was out doing yard work at his Kentucky home.
- 2018: President Trump announces a 25 percent tariff on up to $50 billion in Chinese imports.
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