June 15 in history: • 1520 – Leo X issued the papal bull Exsurge Domine, censuring 41 propositions from Martin Luther's Ninety-five Theses and subsequent writings, and threatening him with excommunication unless he recanted. → go there • 1896 – A magnitude-8.5 earthquake and a subsequent tsunami struck Japan, killing at least 22,000 people and destroying about 9,000 homes. → go there • 1920 – Three African-American circus workers were lynched by a mob in Duluth, Minnesota, a crime that shocked the country for having taken place in the Northern United States. → go there • 1991 – An eruption of Mount Pinatubo (pictured) 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). → go there • 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. → go there Died 960: Eadburh of Winchester Wiki link Died 1876: Mehmed Rashid Pasha Wiki link Born 1917: John B. Fenn Wiki link Born 1978: Mohamed Muizzu Wiki link Pictured: 1991 eruption of Mount Pinatubo.