On This Day for June 15 - Magna Carta sealed by King John, Edvard Grieg is featured, and more

Created: 2020-06-15 10:03 Updated: 2020-06-15 10:03 Notebook: On this Day in History

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June 15

FEATURED BIOGRAPHY

Edvard Grieg

John of England, from an early 14th-century illumination.

FEATURED EVENT

1215

Magna Carta sealed by King John

MORE EVENTS ON THIS DAY

Bob Barker (second from left) with models from The Price Is Right, 2007.

2007: After more than 30 years, American game show host Bob Barker stepped down as host of The Price Is Right.

1996: American singer Ella Fitzgerald—who was known for her enormous vocal range and inventive interpretations, in both ballads and jazz improvisations known as scat—died in Beverly Hills, California.

Ernestine Schumann-Heink as Fidès in Le Prophète, c. 1901.

1861: Austrian contralto Ernestine Schumann-Heink, one of the principal interpreters of the operas of Richard Wagner and Richard Strauss before the outbreak of World War I, was born.