On this day: Key events on June 15, US Steamboat disaster in 1904, Nik Wallenda's Niagara Falls tightrope walk in 2012

Key events on June 15: The Second Continental Congress appointed George Washington head of the Continental Army in 1775. In 1904, the PS General Slocum steamboat disaster occurred in New York, causing over 1,000 deaths.

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