June 15

Track	Year	Event	Artist	Song	Album
1	763 BC	Assyrians record a solar eclipse that is later used to fix the chronology of Mesopotamian history.	British Sea Power	Blackout	The Decline of British Sea Power
2	1215	King John of England puts his seal to the Magna Carta.	Deerhoof	Sealed with a Kiss	Apple O'
3	1752	Benjamin Franklin proves that lightning is electricity (traditional date, the exact date is unknown).	Destroyer	Notorious Lightning	Your Blues
4	1836	Arkansas is admitted as the 25th U.S. state.	Charles Manson	Arkansas	Lie - The Love and Terror Cult
5	1844	Charles Goodyear receives a patent for vulcanization, a process to strengthen rubber.	Chad & Jeremy	A Very Good Year	More Chad & Jeremy
6	1846	The Oregon Treaty establishes the 49th parallel as the border between the United States and Canada, from the Rocky Mountains to the Strait of Juan de Fuca.	Badly Drawn Boy	Degrees of Separation	Born in the U.K.
7	1864	Arlington National Cemetery is established when 200 acres (0.81 km2) around Arlington Mansion (formerly owned by Confederate General Robert E. Lee) are officially set aside as a military cemetery by U.S. Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton.	Architecture in Helsinki	The Cemetery	In Case We Die
8	1934	The U.S. Great Smoky Mountains National Park is founded.	Pete Seeger	On Top of Old Smoky	American Favorite Ballads, Vol. 1
9	1985	Rembrandt's painting Danaë is attacked by a man (later judged insane) who throws sulfuric acid on the canvas and cuts it twice with a knife.	Knife Fight	Knife Fight	Knife Fight
10	2002	Near-Earth asteroid 2002 MN misses the Earth by 75,000 miles (121,000 km), about one-third of the distance between the Earth and the Moon.	Combatwoundedveteran	The Party Asteroid Apocalypse	I Know a Girl Who Develops Crime Scene Photos

(Historical facts about June 15 are from Wikipedia.)