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This day in history: June 15

1. 1921

   Bessie Coleman became the first Black person to earn an international pilot's license from the Fédération Aéronautique Internationale.

2. 1944

   World War II: The United States Army Air Forces began the first air raid of its strategic bombing campaign against the Japanese archipelago, although little damage was caused.

3. 1978

   King Hussein of Jordan married American Lisa Halaby, who became known as Queen Noor of Jordan.

4. 1991

   An eruption of Mount Pinatubo in the Philippines deposited large amounts of particulate matter into the atmosphere, enough to briefly lower global temperatures by about 0.5 °C (0.9 °F).

5. 1995

   Western Greece was struck by an earthquake registering 6.4–6.5 Mw that killed 26 people.

6. 1996

   The Troubles: The Provisional Irish Republican Army detonated a truck bomb in the commercial centre of Manchester, England, injuring more than 200 people and causing widespread damage to buildings.

7. 2006

   US president George W. Bush designated 140,000 square miles (360,000 km2) around the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands as the Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument, now one of the world's largest protected areas.

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