June 16 Events |
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June 16th, 2000 (June 16 2000) | Event | Israel complies with UN Security Council Resolution 425 after 22 years of it issuance, which calls on Israel to completely withdraw from Lebanon. Israel withdraws from all of Lebanon, except the disputed Sheba Farms. | |
June 16th, 1999 (June 16 1999) | Event | Maurice Greene sets a new 100m world record at 9.79 seconds. This is the largest drop in a 100m world record in the history of electronic timing from Donovan Bailey s 9.84. | |
June 16th, 1997 (June 16 1997) | Event | The Dairat Labguer massacre in Algeria; 50 people are killed. | |
June 16th, 1994 (June 16 1994) | Event | A Chinese operated Tupolev TU-154 crashes 10 minutes after takeoff killing 160. | |
June 16th, 1989 (June 16 1989) | Event | Imre Nagy, the former Hungarian Prime Minister, is reburied in Budapest. | |
June 16th, 1977 (June 16 1977) | Event | Oracle Corporation is incorporated in Redwood Shores, California, as Software Development Laboratories (SDL) by Larry Ellison, Bob Miner and Ed Oates. | |
June 16th, 1976 (June 16 1976) | Event | Soweto uprising: a non-violent march by 15,000 students in Soweto, South Africa turns into days of rioting when police open fire on the crowd and kill 566 children. | |
June 16th, 1972 (June 16 1972) | Event | Red Army Faction member Ulrike Meinhof is captured by police in Langenhagen. | |
June 16th, 1972 (June 16 1972) | Event | The largest single-site hydro-electric power project in Canada starts at Churchill Falls, Labrador. | |
June 16th, 1967 (June 16 1967) | Event | The three-day Monterey International Pop Music Festival begins in Monterey, California. | |
June 16th, 1963 (June 16 1963) | Event | Soviet Space Program: Vostok 6 MissionCosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova becomes the first woman in space. | |
June 16th, 1961 (June 16 1961) | Event | Rudolf Nureyev defects at Le Bourget airport in Paris. | |
June 16th, 1955 (June 16 1955) | Event | Pope Pius XII excommunicates Juan Peron. | |
June 16th, 1948 (June 16 1948) | Event | The storming of the cockpit of the Miss Macao passenger seaplane, operated by a subsidiary of the Cathay Pacific Airways, marks the first skyjacking of a commercial plane. | Cao Cao Quotes |
June 16th, 1940 (June 16 1940) | Event | World War II: Marshal Henri Philippe Petain becomes Premier of Vichy France. | |
June 16th, 1940 (June 16 1940) | Event | A Communist government is installed in Lithuania. | |
June 16th, 1930 (June 16 1930) | Event | Sovnarkom establishes decree time in the USSR. | |
June 16th, 1925 (June 16 1925) | Event | The most famous Young Pioneer camp of the USSR, Artek, is established. | |
June 16th, 1924 (June 16 1924) | Event | The Whampoa Military Academy is founded. | |
June 16th, 1922 (June 16 1922) | Event | General election in Irish Free State: large majority to pro-Treaty Sinn Fein. | |
June 16th, 1915 (June 16 1915) | Event | The foundation of the British Women s Institute. | |
June 16th, 1911 (June 16 1911) | Event | A 772 gram stony meteorite strikes the earth near Kilbourn, Columbia County, Wisconsin damaging a barn. | |
June 16th, 1904 (June 16 1904) | Event | Eugen Schauman assassinates Nikolai Bobrikov, Governor-General of Finland. | |
June 16th, 1904 (June 16 1904) | Event | Irish author James Joyce begins a relationship with Nora Barnacle, and subsequently uses the date to set the actions for his novel Ulysses; traditionally "Bloomsday". | James Joyce Quotes |
June 16th, 1903 (June 16 1903) | Event | The Ford Motor Company is incorporated. | |
June 16th, 1903 (June 16 1903) | Event | Roald Amundsen commences the first east-west navigation of the Northwest Passage by leaving Oslo, Norway. | |
June 16th, 1897 (June 16 1897) | Event | A treaty annexing the Republic of Hawaii to the United States is signed; the Republic would not be dissolved until a year later. | |
June 16th, 1891 (June 16 1891) | Event | John Abbott becomes Canada s third prime minister. | |
June 16th, 1883 (June 16 1883) | Event | The Victoria Hall theatre panic in Sunderland, England kills 183 children | |
June 16th, 1871 (June 16 1871) | Event | The University Tests Act allows students to enter the Universities of Oxford, Cambridge and Durham without religious tests, except for courses in theology. | |
June 16th, 1858 (June 16 1858) | Event | Abraham Lincoln delivers his House Divided speech in Springfield, Illinois. | Abraham Lincoln Quotes |
June 16th, 1858 (June 16 1858) | Event | Battle of Morar takes place during the Indian Mutiny. | |
June 16th, 1846 (June 16 1846) | Event | The Papal conclave of 1846 concludes. Pope Pius IX is elected pope, beginning the longest reign in the history of the papacy (not counting St. Peter). | |
June 16th, 1836 (June 16 1836) | Event | The formation of the London Working Men s Association gives rise to the Chartist Movement. | |
June 16th, 1815 (June 16 1815) | Event | Battle of Ligny and Battle of Quatre Bras, two days before Waterloo. | |
June 16th, 1779 (June 16 1779) | Event | Spain declares war on the Kingdom of Great Britain, and the siege of Gibraltar begins. | |
June 16th, 1774 (June 16 1774) | Event | Formation of Harrodsburg, Kentucky. | |
June 16th, 1755 (June 16 1755) | Event | French and Indian War: the French surrender Fort Beausejour to the British, leading to the expulsion of the Acadians. | |
June 16th, 1746 (June 16 1746) | Event | War of Austrian Succession: Austria and Sardinia defeat a Franco-Spanish army at the Battle of Piacenza. | |
June 16th, 1745 (June 16 1745) | Event | British troops take Cape Breton Island, which is now part of Nova Scotia, Canada. | |
June 16th, 1745 (June 16 1745) | Event | Sir William Pepperell captures the French Fortress Louisbourg in Louisbourg, Nova Scotia during the War of the Austrian Succession. | |
June 16th, 1586 (June 16 1586) | Event | Mary Queen of Scots recognizes Philip II of Spain as her heir. | |
June 16th, 1487 (June 16 1487) | Event | Battle of Stoke Field, the last dying breath of the Wars of the Roses. | |