25 Khordad 1401

Events

• 844 (1182 years ago) Louis II is crowned as king of Italy at Rome by pope Sergius II.
• 1219 (807 years ago) Northern Crusades: Danish victory at the Battle of Lindanise (modern-day Tallinn) establishes the Danish Duchy of Estonia.
• 1389 (637 years ago) The Ottomans under Sultan Murad I defeat a Serb army under Lazar of Serbia in the battle of Kosovo. Both leaders are killed in the battle.
• 1520 (506 years ago) Pope Leo X threatens to excommunicate Martin Luther in Exsurge Domine.
• 1804 (222 years ago) New Hampshire approves the Twelfth Amendment to the United States Constitution, ratifying the document.
• 1940 (86 years ago) World War II: Operation Aerial begins: Allied troops start to evacuate France, following Germany's takeover of Paris and most of the nation.
• 1944 (82 years ago) In the Saskatchewan general election, the CCF, led by Tommy Douglas, is elected and forms the first socialist government in North America.
• 1977 (49 years ago) After the death of dictator Francisco Franco in 1975, the first democratic elections take place in Spain.

Births

• 1843 (183 years ago) Edvard Grieg, Norwegian pianist and composer (died 1907)
• 1914 (112 years ago) Yuri Andropov, Russian politician (died 1984)
• 1943 (83 years ago) Johnny Hallyday, French singer and actor (died 2017)
• 1953 (73 years ago) Xi Jinping, Chinese engineer and politician, General Secretary of the Communist Party and President of China
• 1964 (62 years ago) Courteney Cox, American actress and producer
• 1969 (57 years ago) Ice Cube, American rapper, producer, and actor
• 1969 (57 years ago) Oliver Kahn, German footballer and sportscaster
• 1992 (34 years ago) Mohamed Salah, Egyptian footballer

Deaths

• 1389 (637 years ago) Murad I, Ottoman Sultan (born 1319)
• 1849 (177 years ago) James K. Polk, American lawyer and politician, 11th President of the United States (born 1795)
• 1888 (138 years ago) Frederick III, German Emperor (born 1831)
• 1889 (137 years ago) Mihai Eminescu, Romanian journalist, author, and poet (born 1850)
• 1938 (88 years ago) Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, German painter and illustrator (born 1880)
• 1996 (30 years ago) Ella Fitzgerald, American singer and actress (born 1917)
• 2013 (13 years ago) Kenneth G. Wilson, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1936)
• 2023 (3 years ago) Glenda Jackson, English actress and politician (born 1936)

All 347 events, births and deaths of June 15