Event:
Tsunami strikes Shinto festival on beach at Sanriku Japan 27,000 are killed, 9,000 injured, with 13,000 houses destroyed
More Notable Events on June 15:
1994 Ruth Bader Ginsburg, sworn in as Supreme Court Justice
1924 Native Americans are proclaimed U.S. citizens
1916 Boys Scouts of America receives congressional charter
1887 Carlisle D. Graham survives 2nd ride in Niagara waterfall in barrel
1836 Arkansas becomes 25th state
