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June 16 is the 167th day of the year (168th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar; 198 days remain until the end of the year.

Events

• 1487 – Battle of Stoke Field, the final engagement of the Wars of the Roses.
• 1586 – Mary, Queen of Scots, recognizes Philip II of Spain as her heir.
• 1745 – British troops take Cape Breton Island, which is now part of Nova Scotia, Canada.
• 1745 – Sir William Pepperell captures the French Fortress Louisbourg in Louisbourg, Nova Scotia during the War of the Austrian Succession.
• 1746 – War of Austrian Succession: Austria and Sardinia defeat a Franco-Spanish army at the Battle of Piacenza.
• 1755 – French and Indian War: the French surrender Fort Beauséjour to the British, leading to the expulsion of the Acadians.
• 1774 – Formation of Harrodsburg, Kentucky.
• 1779 – Spain declares war on the Kingdom of Great Britain, and the siege of Gibraltar begins.
• 1815 – Battle of Ligny and Battle of Quatre Bras, two days before the Battle of Waterloo.
• 1836 – The formation of the London Working Men's Association gives rise to the Chartist Movement.
• 1846 – 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).
• 1858 – Abraham Lincoln delivers his House Divided speech in Springfield, Illinois.
• 1858 – Battle of Morar takes place during the Indian Mutiny.
• 1871 – The University Tests Act allows students to enter the Universities of Oxford, Cambridge and Durham without religious tests, except for courses in theology.
• 1883 – The Victoria Hall theatre panic in Sunderland, England kills 183 children
• 1891 – John Abbott becomes Canada's third prime minister.
• 1897 – A treaty annexing the Republic of Hawaii to the United States is signed; the Republic would not be dissolved until a year later.
• 1903 – The Ford Motor Company is incorporated.
• 1903 – Roald Amundsen commences the first east-west navigation of the Northwest Passage by leaving Oslo, Norway.
• 1904 – Eugen Schauman assassinates Nikolai Bobrikov, Governor-General of Finland.
• 1904 – 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".
• 1911 – A 772 gram stony meteorite strikes the earth near Kilbourn, Columbia County, Wisconsin damaging a barn.
• 1915 – The foundation of the British Women's Institute.
• 1922 – General election in Irish Free State: large majority to pro-Treaty Sinn Féin.
• 1924 – The Whampoa Military Academy is founded.
• 1925 – The most famous Young Pioneer camp of the USSR, Artek, is established.
• 1930 – Sovnarkom establishes decree time in the USSR.
• 1940 – World War II: Marshal Henri Philippe Pétain becomes Premier of Vichy France.
• 1940 – A Communist government is installed in Lithuania.
• 1948 – The storming of the cockpit of the Miss Macao passenger seaplane, operated by a subsidiary of the Cathay Pacific Airways, marks the first aircraft hijacking of a commercial plane.
• 1955 – Pope Pius XII excommunicates Juan Perón.
• 1958 – Imre Nagy, Pál Maléter and other leaders of the 1956 Hungarian Uprising are executed.
• 1961 – Rudolf Nureyev defects at Le Bourget airport in Paris.
• 1963 – Soviet Space Program: Vostok 6 Mission – Cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova becomes the first woman in space.
• 1967 – The three-day Monterey International Pop Music Festival begins in Monterey, California.
• 1972 – Red Army Faction member Ulrike Meinhof is captured by police in Langenhagen.
• 1972 – The largest single-site hydro-electric power project in Canada starts at Churchill Falls, Labrador.
• 1976 – 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.
• 1977 – Oracle Corporation is incorporated in Redwood Shores, California, as Software Development Laboratories (SDL) by Larry Ellison, Bob Miner and Ed Oates.
• 1989 – Imre Nagy, the former Hungarian Prime Minister, is reburied in Budapest.
• 1997 – The Dairat Labguer massacre in Algeria; 50 people are killed.
• 2000 – 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.

Births

• 1139 – Emperor Konoe of Japan (d. 1155)
• 1332 – Isabella de Coucy, English princess (d. 1382)
• 1514 – John Cheke, English classical scholar (d. 1557)
• 1583 – Axel Oxenstierna, Swedish statesman (d. 1654)
• 1591 – Joseph Solomon Delmedigo, Italian physician, mathematician, and music theorist (d. 1655)
• 1606 – Arthur Chichester, 1st Earl of Donegall, Irish soldier (d. 1675)
• 1612 – Murad IV, Ottoman Sultan (d. 1640)
• 1613 – John Cleveland, English poet (d. 1658)
• 1633 – Jean de Thévenot, French traveler and scientist (d. 1667)
• 1644 – Henrietta Anne Stuart, Princess of Scotland, England and Ireland and Duchess of Orléans (d. 1670)
• 1713 – Meshech Weare, Governor of New Hampshire (d. 1786)
• 1723 – Adam Smith, Scottish philosopher and economist (d. 1790)
• 1738 – Mary Katharine Goddard, American printer and publisher (d. 1816)
• 1754 – Salawat Yulayev, Bashkir poet (d. 1800)
• 1792 – John Linnell, English artist (d. 1882)
• 1792 – Sir Thomas Mitchell, Australian explorer (d. 1855)
• 1801 – Julius Plücker, German mathematician and physicist (d. 1868)
• 1806 – Edward Davy, English physician, chemist, and inventor (d. 1885)
• 1813 – Otto Jahn, German archaeologist (d. 1869)
• 1820 – Athanase Coquerel, French Protestant preacher (d. 1875)
• 1821 – Old Tom Morris, Scottish golfer (d. 1908)
• 1826 – Constantin von Ettingshausen, Austrian geologist and botanist (d. 1897)
• 1829 – Geronimo, Apache leader (d. 1909)
• 1836 – Wesley Merritt, American soldier (d. 1910)
• 1837 – Ernst Laas, German philosopher (d. 1885)
• 1838 – Cushman Davis, American politician (d. 1900)
• 1840 – Ernst Otto Schlick, German engineer (d. 1913)
• 1858 – King Gustaf V of Sweden (d. 1950)
• 1874 – Arthur Meighen, ninth Prime Minister of Canada (d. 1960)
• 1880 – Otto Eisenschiml, Austrian-born American chemist and historian (d. 1963)
• 1888 – Alexander Alexandrovich Friedman, Russian physicist (d. 1925)
• 1888 – Peter Stoner, American mathematician and astronomer (d. 1980)
• 1890 – Stan Laurel, British actor and comedian (d. 1965)
• 1894 – Norman Kerry, American actor (d. 1956)
• 1896 – Murray Leinster, American author (d. 1976)
• 1897 – Elaine Hammerstein, American actress (d. 1948)
• 1897 – Georg Wittig, German chemist, Nobel laureate (d. 1987)
• 1902 – Barbara McClintock, American geneticist, Nobel laureate (d. 1992)
• 1902 – George Gaylord Simpson, American paleontologist (d. 1984)
• 1903 – Helen Traubel, American soprano (d. 1972)
• 1903 – Huldreich Georg Früh, Swiss composer (d. 1945)
• 1907 – Jack Albertson, American actor (d. 1981)
• 1909 – Archie Fairley Carr, biologist (d. 1987)
• 1910 – Juan Velasco, President of Peru (d. 1977)
• 1912 – Enoch Powell, British politician (d. 1998)
• 1915 – John Tukey, American statistician (d. 2000)
• 1916 – Hank Luisetti, American basketball player (d. 2002)
• 1917 – Katherine Graham, American publisher (d. 2001)
• 1917 – Aurelio Lampredi, Italian mechanical engineer (Ferrari (d. 1989)
• 1917 – Irving Penn, American photographer
• 1920 – John Howard Griffin, American writer (d. 1980)
• 1920 – Raymond U. Lemieux, Canadian scientist (d. 2002)
• 1920 – José López Portillo, President of Mexico (d. 2004)
• 1923 – Ron Flockhart, Scottish racing driver (d. 1962)
• 1924 – Faith Domergue, American actor (d. 1999)
• 1927 – Tom Graveney, English cricketer
• 1927 – Herbert Lichtenfeld, German author and playwright (d. 2001)
• 1928 – Speedy O. Long, American politician (d. 2006)
• 1929 – Ramon Bieri, American actor (d. 2001)
• 1929 – Pauline Yates, English actress
• 1930 – Vilmos Zsigmond, Hungarian-born American cinematographer
• 1930 – Allan D'Arcangelo, American artist (d. 1998)
• 1934 – Dame Eileen Atkins, English actress
• 1934 – Roger Neilson, Canadian ice hockey coach (d. 2003)
• 1934 – William Forsyth Sharpe, American economist, Nobel laureate
• 1934 – Elvira Vinogradova, Russian TV persona
• 1935 – Bill Cobbs, American actor
• 1935 – Jim Dine, American artist
• 1937 – Erich Segal, American author (d. 2010)
• 1937 – Simeon Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, Tsar of Bulgaria
• 1938 – James Bolam, English actor
• 1938 – Joyce Carol Oates, American novelist
• 1938 – Torgny Lindgren, Swedish writer
• 1939 – Billy Crash Craddock, American country singer
• 1940 – Neil Goldschmidt, American-born Governor of Oregon
• 1941 – Aldrich Ames, American Soviet spy
• 1941 – Lamont Dozier, American record company executive
• 1941 – Mumtaz Hamid Rao, Pakistani journalist
• 1942 – Giacomo Agostini, Italian motorcyclist
• 1942 – Eddie Levert, American singer (The O'Jays)
• 1943 – Joan Van Ark, American actress
• 1944 – Henri Richelet, French painter
• 1945 – Claire Alexander, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1945 – Lucienne Robillard, Canadian politician
• 1946 – Rick Adelman, American basketball player & head coach
• 1946 – Jodi Rell, American politician
• 1946 – Derek Sanderson, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1946 – Mark Ritts, American actor (d. 2009)
• 1947 – -minu, Swiss columnist and writer
• 1947 – Tom Wyner, British-born American voice actor and writer
• 1948 – Ron LeFlore, American baseball player
• 1948 – V. Hanumantha Rao, Indian politician
• 1949 – Paulo César, Brazilian footballer
• 1949 – V. Hanumantha Rao, Indian politician
• 1951 – Roberto Durán, Panamanian boxer
• 1951 – Ultimate Warrior, American professional wrestler
• 1951 – Charlie Dominici, American singer (Dominici)
• 1952 – George Papandreou, junior, Greek politician
• 1952 – Gino Vannelli, Canadian singer and songwriter
• 1953 – Ian Mosley, British drummer (Marillion)
• 1953 – Valerie Mahaffey, American actress
• 1955 – Laurie Metcalf, American actress
• 1957 – Ian Buchanan, Scottish actor
• 1958 – Darrell Griffith, American basketball player
• 1958 – Jóhannes Helgason, Icelandic guitarist (Þeyr)
• 1958 – Ulrike Tauber, East German swimmer
• 1959 – Warrior, American professional wrestler
• 1959 – Desirée Rogers, American public relations executive, and current Social Secretary for the White House
• 1960 – Peter Sterling, Australian rugby league footballer
• 1961 – Steve Larmer, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1962 – Wally Joyner, American baseball player
• 1962 – Femi Kuti, Nigerian Afrobeat Musician
• 1962 – Arnold Vosloo, South African actor
• 1962 – Anthony Wong Yiu Ming, Hong Kong composer and producer
• 1963 – Scott Alexander, American screenwriter
• 1963 – Jim Fullington, American professional wrestler
• 1966 – Jan Železný, Czech athlete
• 1967 – John Franklin, American actor
• 1969 – Mark Crossley, Welsh footballer
• 1970 – Clifton Collins Jr., American actor
• 1970 – Cobi Jones, American soccer player
• 1970 – Phil Mickelson, American golfer
• 1970 – Younus AlGohar, British spiritualist, author, poet, sufi & humanitarian
• 1971 – Tupac Shakur, American rapper and actor (d. 1996)
• 1971 – Chris Gomez, American baseball player
• 1972 – John Cho, Korean-American actor
• 1972 – Simon Khan, English golfer
• 1972 – Ann Shoket, American magazine editor
• 1973 – Nikos Machlas, Greek footballer
• 1973 – Kristofer Brockmeier, American Hunk
• 1974 – Paul Lee, British sculptor
• 1975 – Anthony Carter, American basketball player
• 1976 – Edwin Tenorio, Ecuadorian footballer
• 1977 – Kerry Wood, American baseball player
• 1977 – Petros Papadakis, American sportscaster
• 1977 – Kevin Foster, American convicted murderer
• 1977 – Craig Fitzgibbon, Australian rugby league footballer
• 1978 – Daniel Brühl, German actor
• 1978 – Dainius Zubrus, Lithuanian ice hockey player
• 1978 – Jasmine Leong, Chinese Malaysian singer
• 1978 – Lyndsey Marshal, British actress
• 1980 – Brandon Armstrong, American basketball player
• 1980 – Nehir Erdoğan, Turkish actress
• 1980 – Brad Gushue, Canadian curler
• 1980 – Martin Stranzl, Austrian footballer
• 1980 – Joey Yung, Hong Kong singer
• 1980 – Daré Nibombé, Togolese footballer
• 1980 – Phil Christophers, German rugby player
• 1981 – Benjamin Becker, German tennis player
• 1981 – Kevin Bieksa, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1981 – Ben Kweller, American singer/songwriter
• 1981 – Miguel Villalta, Peruvian footballer
• 1982 – Fraser Cartmell, British triathlete
• 1982 – Matt Costa, American singer/songwriter
• 1982 – Missy Peregrym, Canadian actress
• 1982 – Chris Wingert, American footballer
• 1982 – Jodi Santamaria, Filipina actress
• 1983 – Armend Dallku, Albanian footballer
• 1984 – Steven Whittaker, Scottish Footballer
• 1984 – Rick Nash, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1984 – Jonathan Broxton, American Baseball Player
• 1986 – Rodrigo Defendi, Brazilian footballer
• 1986 – Urby Emanuelson, Dutch footballer
• 1986 – Fernando Muslera, Uruguayan footballer
• 1986 – Farhad Reza, Bangladeshi cricketer
• 1986 – Robert Rothbart, Bosnian/Israeli/Serbian basketball player
• 1987 – Diana DeGarmo, American singer
• 1987 – Abby Elliott, American comedienne
• 1987 – Per Ciljan Skjelbred, Norwegian footballer
• 1987 – Christian Tshimanga Kabeya, Belgian footballer
• 1988 – Keshia Chante, Canadian singer
• 1989 – Elena Glebova, Estonian figure skater
• 1991 – Joe McElderry, X Factor Winner 2009
• 1994 – Aarya Ambekar, Marathi Singer

Deaths

• 1216 – Pope Innocent III
• 1397 – Philip of Artois, Count of Eu, French soldier (b. 1358)
• 1468 – Jean Le Fevre, Burgundian chronicler (b. c. 1395)
• 1622 – Alexander Seton, 1st Earl of Dunfermline, Chancellor of Scotland (b. 1555)
• 1623 – Christian, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg-Wolfenbüttel, German Protestant military leader (b. 1599)
• 1666 – Richard Fanshawe, English poet, translator, and diplomat (b. 1608)
• 1671 – Stenka Razin, Cossack rebel leader (executed) (b. 1630)
• 1707 – Marie d'Orleans-Longueville, Duchess de Nemours, sovereign princess of Neuchâtel and writer (b. 1625)
• 1722 – John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough, English general (b. 1650)
• 1749 – Johann Baptista Ruffini, Italian trader (b. 1672)
• 1752 – Giulio Alberoni, Spanish cardinal (b. 1664)
• 1752 – Joseph Butler, English philosopher (b. 1692)
• 1777 – Jean-Baptiste-Louis Gresset, French poet and dramatist (b. 1709)
• 1778 – Konrad Ekhof, German actor (b. 1720)
• 1779 – Sir Francis Bernard, 1st Baronet, Governor of New Jersey and Massachusetts (b. 1712)
• 1792 – Benjamin Tupper, Continental Army officer, and pioneer to the Ohio Country (b. 1738)
• 1804 – Johann Adam Hiller, German composer (b. 1728)
• 1824 – Charles-François Lebrun, duc de Plaisance, Third Consul of France (b. 1739)
• 1849 – Wilhelm Martin Leberecht de Wette, German theologian (b. 1780)
• 1850 – William Lawson explorer of New South Wales, Australia (b. 1774)
• 1855 – John Gorrie, American physician (b. 1803)
• 1858 – John Snow, English epidemiologist (b. 1813)
• 1862 – Hidenoyama Raigorō, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 9^th Yokozuna (b. 1808)
• 1866 – Joseph Méry French poet (b. 1798)
• 1869 – Charles Sturt, English explorer (b. 1795)
• 1872 – Norman MacLeod, Scottish clergyman (b. 1812)
• 1878 – Crawford Long, American physician (b. 1815)
• 1881 – Marie Laveau, American Voodoo practitioner (b. 1801)
• 1881 – Sir Josiah Mason, English manufacturer (b. 1795)
• 1885 – Wilhelm Camphausen, German painter (b. 1818)
• 1902 – Ernst Schröder, German mathematician (b. 1841)
• 1925 – Chittaranjan Das, Indian patriot and freedom fighter (b. 1870)
• 1925 – Emmett Hardy, American musician (b. 1903)
• 1928 – Dr. Mark Keppel, County Superintendent of Los Angeles County Schools from 1902-1928 (b. 1867)
• 1929 – Bramwell Booth, the 2nd General of The Salvation Army (b. 1856)
• 1930 – Ezra Fitch, Abercrombie & Fitch founder (b. 1866)
• 1930 – Elmer Ambrose Sperry, American inventor (b. 1860)
• 1939 – Chick Webb, American jazz drummer and big band leader (b. 1905)
• 1940 – DuBose Heyward, American writer (b. 1885)
• 1944 – Marc Bloch, French historian (executed) (b. 1886)
• 1945 – Aris Velouchiotis, Greek guerrilla resistance leader (b. 1905)
• 1952 – Andrew Lawson, Scottish-American geologist, first to map the entire San Andreas Fault (b. 1861)
• 1953 – Margaret Bondfield, English politician and feminist (b. 1873)
• 1955 – Ozias Leduc, Quebec painter (b. 1864)
• 1958 – Imre Nagy, Prime Minister of Hungary (b. 1895)
• 1959 – George Reeves, American actor (b. 1914)
• 1961 – Marcel Junod, Swiss physician (b. 1904)
• 1967 – Reginald Denny, English stage, film, and television actor (b. 1891)
• 1969 – Harold Alexander, British military commander (b. 1891)
• 1970 – Heino Eller, Estonian composer (b. 1887)
• 1970 – Brian Piccolo, American football player (b. 1943)
• 1970 – Sydney Chapman, British mathematician and geophysicist (b. 1888)
• 1971 – Lord Reith, British broadcast executive (b. 1889)
• 1977 – Wernher von Braun, German-born rocket scientist (b. 1912)
• 1979 – Ignatius Kutu Acheamphong, Ghanaian dictator (b. 1931)
• 1979 – Nicholas Ray, American film director (b. 1911)
• 1981 – Jule Gregory Charney, American meteorologist (b. 1917)
• 1982 – James Honeyman-Scott, English guitarist and songwriter (The Pretenders) (b. 1956)
• 1984 – Lew Andreas, American basketball coach (b. 1895)
• 1986 – Maurice Duruflé, French composer and organist (b. 1902)
• 1988 – Miguel Piñero, Puerto Rican playwright, actor, and co-founder of the Nuyorican Poets Cafe. (b. 1946)
• 1990 – Gertrude Baniszewski, murderer of Sylvia Likens (b. 1929)
• 1990 – Megan Leigh, American porn star (b. 1964)
• 1993 – Lindsay Hassett, Australian cricketer (b. 1913)
• 1994 – Kristen Pfaff, American bass guitarist (Hole) (b. 1967)
• 1996 – Mel Allen, American baseball announcer (b. 1913)
• 1996 – Curt Swan, American comic book artist (b. 1920)
• 1997 – Dal Stivens, Australian author (b. 1911)
• 1999 – David Edward Sutch, British musician (b. 1940)
• 2000 – Empress Kōjun of Japan (b. 1903)
• 2003 – Pierre Bourgault, French Canadian politician (b. 1934)
• 2003 – Georg Henrik von Wright, Finnish-Swedish philosopher (b. 1916)
• 2004 – Thanom Kittikachorn, Prime Minister of Thailand (b. 1912)
• 2005 – Enrique Laguerre, Puerto Rican writer (b. 1906)
• 2006 – Igor Śmiałowski, Polish actor (b. 1917)
• 2006 – Alireza Shapour Shahbazi, Iranian archaeologist, (b. 1942)
• 2007 – Grand Ayatollah Fazel Lankarani, Iranian cleric (b. 1931)
• 2007 – Mikhail Kononov, Soviet actor (b. 1940)
• 2008 – Tom Compernolle, Belgian athlete (b. 1975)
• 2008 – Mario Rigoni Stern, Italian writer, World War II veteran and Nazi concentration camp survivor (b. 1921)

Holidays and observances

• Bloomsday (Dublin, James Joyce fans)
• Christian Feast Day
  • Benno
  • Lutgardis
  • Quiricus and Julietta
• International Day of the African Child (Organisation of African Unity)
• Martyrdom of Guru Arjan Dev (Sikhism)
• Sussex Day (Sussex)
• Youth Day (South Africa)

External links

• BBC: On This Day
• The New York Times: On This Day
• On This Day in Canada

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