1909<\/strong> – Benjamin Shibe patented the cork center baseball.<\/p>\n 1911<\/strong> – The Computing-Tabulating-Recording Co. was incorporated in the state of New York. The company was later renamed International Business Machines (IBM) Corp.<\/p>\n 1916<\/strong> –\u00a0U.S. President Woodrow Wilson\u00a0signed a bill incorporating the Boy Scouts of America.<\/p>\n 1917<\/strong> – Great Britain pledged the release of all the Irish captured during the Easter Rebellion of 1916.<\/p>\n 1919<\/strong> – Captain John Alcock and Lt. Arthur W. Brown won $50,000 for successfully completing the first, non-stop trans-Atlantic plane flight.<\/p>\n 1938<\/strong> – Johnny Vandemeer (Cincinnati Reds) pitched his second straight no-hitter.<\/p>\n 1940<\/strong> – The French fortress of Verdun was captured by Germans.<\/p>\n 1944<\/strong> – American forces began their successful invasion of Saipan during World War II.<\/p>\n 1947<\/strong> – The All-Indian Congress accepted a British plan for the partition of India.<\/p>\n 1948<\/strong> –\u00a0Soviet authorities announced that the Autobahn would be closed indefinitely “for repairs.”<\/p>\n 1958<\/strong> – Greece severed military ties to Turkey because of the Cypress issue.<\/p>\n 1964<\/strong> – The last French troops left Algeria.<\/p>\n 1978<\/strong> – King Hussein of Jordan married 26-year-old American Lisa Halaby, who became Queen Noor.<\/p>\n 1981<\/strong> – The U.S. agreed to provide Pakistan with $3 billion in military and economic aid from October 1982 to October 1987.<\/p>\n 1982<\/strong> – In the capital city of Stanley, the Falklands war ended as Argentine troops surrendered to the British.<\/p>\n 1983<\/strong> – The U.S. Supreme Court reinforced its position on abortion by striking down state and local restriction on abortions.<\/p>\n 1986<\/strong> – Pravda, the Communist Party newspaper, reported that the chief engineer of the Chernobyl nuclear plant was dismissed for mishandling the incident at the plant.<\/p>\n 1992<\/strong> – It was ruled by the U.S. Supreme Court that the government could kidnap criminal suspects from foreign countries for prosecution.<\/p>\n 1992<\/strong> – U.S. Vice President Dan Quayle instructed a student to spell “potato” with an “e” on the end during a spelling bee. He had relied on a faulty flash card that had been written by the student’s teacher.<\/p>\n 1994<\/strong> – Israel and the Vatican established full diplomatic relations.<\/p>\n 1999<\/strong> – South Korean naval forces sank a North Korean torpedo boat during an exchange in the disputed Yellow Sea.<\/p>\n History of 15 June 1909 – Benjamin Shibe patented the cork center baseball. 1911 – The Computing-Tabulating-Recording Co. was incorporated in the state of New York. 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