June 15, 1900 (Friday)
- Chinese Empress (Tzu Hsi) Cixi, decreed that Boxer rebels could not enter Beijing, in response to fighting between the European legations and the rebels, who continued to pour into the capital.
- Born: Paul Mares, American jazz trumpeter and leader of New Orleans Rhythm Kings, in New Orleans (d. 1949)
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Famous quotes containing the word june:
“In June the bush we call
alder was heavy, listless,
its leaves studded with galls,
growing wherever we didn’t
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—Denise Levertov (b. 1923)