Today is Wednesday, June 15, the 167th day of 2016. There are 199 days left in the year.

Today’s birthdays: Funk musician Leo Nocentelli (The Meters) is 70. Actor Simon Callow is 67. Rock singer Steve Walsh is 65. Comedian Jim Belushi is 62. Actress Julie Hagerty is 61. Red Sox Hall-of-Famer Wade Boggs is 58. Actress Helen Hunt is 53. Actress Courteney Cox is 52. Actor-rapper Ice Cube is 47. Actor Neil Patrick Harris is 43.

In 1215, England’s King John put his seal to Magna Carta at Runnymede.

In 1775, the Second Continental Congress voted unanimously to appoint George Washington head of its army.

In 1864, an order established a military burial ground that became Arlington National Cemetery, on Confederate General Robert E. Lee’s land in Virginia.

In 1904, about 1,000 people died when fire erupted aboard the steamboat General Slocum in New York’s East River.

In 1991, Mount Pinatubo in the Philippines exploded in a massive volcanic eruption, killing about 800 people.

In 1996, Ella Fitzgerald, the ‘‘first lady of song,’’ died in Beverly Hills, Calif., at age 79.

In 2011, the Boston Bruins won the Stanley Cup for the first time since 1972, beating the Canucks 4-0 in Game 7; angry, drunken Vancouver fans set cars on fire and looted stores.

Last year, Rachel Dolezal resigned as president of the NAACP’s Spokane chapter days after her parents said she was a white woman posing as black woman — a swift fall for an activist credited with injecting energy into the civil rights group.