Notable · 2012
American acrobat Nik Wallenda became the first person to walk a tightrope stretched directly over Niagara Falls.
Egypt
June 15
Nothing was formally observed in Egypt on June 15.
June 15 in history
Full history →- 2013A bomb explodes on a bus in the Pakistani city of Quetta, killing at least 25 people and wounding 22 others.
- 1996The Troubles: The Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) detonates a powerful truck bomb in the middle of Manchester, England, devastating the city centre and injuring 200 people.
- 1992The United States Supreme Court rules in United States v. Álvarez-Machaín that it is permissible for the United States to forcibly extradite suspects in foreign countries and bring them to the United States for trial, without approval from those other countries.
- 1991In the Philippines, Mount Pinatubo erupts in the second largest volcanic eruption of the 20th century, killing over 800 people.
- 1988The Ariane 4 rocket is launched on its maiden flight.