Today in History: More than 50,000 attended the first rock music festival, in Monterey, California in 1967

The following are some of the major events to have occurred on June 15:

1878 - World's first moving pictures caught on camera (used 12 cameras, each taking 1 picture) done to see if all 4 of a horse's hooves leave the ground.

1904 – The steamship General Slocum caught fire and sank in New York harbour. Around 1,000 people died, many of them women and children on a church outing.

1919 – The Englishmen John Alcock and Arthur Brown completed the first non-stop transatlantic flight.

1940 - German troops occupy Paris as French resistance to the German invasion crumbles.

1967 – More than 50,000 fans attended the first rock music festival, in Monterey, California.

1994 – Israel and the Vatican established full diplomatic ties, sealing a historic accord on mutual recognition and reconciliation after centuries of bitterness between Roman Catholics and Jews.

1996 – Ella Fitzgerald, “First Lady of Jazz”, died aged 79.

2001 – The Shanghai Five — China, Russia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan — welcomed new member Uzbekistan and renamed themselves the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO), a regional organisation to combat Islamic militancy.

2001 – World’s first mass-produced hybrid minivan goes on sale.

2003 – Hume Cronyn, whose career on Broadway and in Hollywood spanned more than six decades, died. He was 91. He made his film debut in Alfred Hitchcock’s “Shadow of a Doubt” in 1943 and went on to appear in such films as “The Postman Always Rings Twice”, “12 Angry Men” and “Cocoon”.

2006 – Pop stars Cheryl Tweedy and Victoria Beckham watch their partners play for England at the World Cup in Germany.

2012 – Nik Wallenda becomes first person to successfully tightrope walk over Niagara Falls.

2013 – Bus bomb attack in Quetta, Pakistan.

(Reuters)