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What happened in history on this day: June 16?
On June 16 in ...
- 632 - Origin of Persian [Yezdegird] Era.
- 1216 - Innocent III pope, dies at age 54.
- 1288 - A shareholders' company is formed to safeguard mining of the Falu Copper Mine in Sweden.
- 1567 - Mary Queen of Scots thrown into Lochleven Castle prison.
- 1671 - Cossack rebel leader Stenka Razin tortured, executed in Moscow.
- 1722 - King George I authorizes William Wood to produce up to 360 tons of halfpence and farthing coins for Ireland over the next 14 years.
- 1755 - British capture Fort Beauséjour, expel the Acadians.
- 1812 - Britain raises the blockade of Europe.
- 1819 - In Kachchh (Rann of Kutch), Gujarat, India, a magnitude 8.3 earthquake occurs. 1,500 - 2,000 killed.
- 1824 - At Old Slaughter's Coffee House in Saint Martin's Lane, London, England, the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals is formed.
- 1832 - Battle of Kellogg's Grove, Illinois.
- 1871 - Ancient Arabic Order of Nobles of the Mystic Shrine is founded, in New York City.
- 1874 - Birth of Arthur Meighen; 9th Prime Minister of Canada (Conservative, 1920-21, 1926).
- 1882 - 17-inch diameter hailstones weighing 1.75 pounds fall in Dubuque, Iowa, USA.
- 1884 - The first roller coaster in the USA opens at Coney Island, in Brooklyn, New York. The ride travels approximately six miles per hour and cost five cents to ride.
- 1895 - Birth of Stan Laurel; comedian (Laurel and Hardy).
- 1896 - Temperature hits 127 degrees F at Fort Mojave, California.
- 1899 - Birth of Nelson Doubleday; US publisher (Doubleday).
- 1902 - Military rule in the Philippines is replaced by civilian government.
- 1902 - Birth of Barbara McClintock in USA; cytogeneticist (Nobel Prize 1983).
- 1903 - Ford Motors incorporates.
- 1907 - Birth of Jack Albertson in Malden, Massachusetts, USA; actor (Thin Man, Chico and the Man).
- 1909 - First US airplane sold commercially, by Glenn Curtiss for $5,000.
- 1910 - Birth of Ilona Massey in Budapest, Hungary; actress/singer (Ilona Massey Show).
- 1911 - In Kilbourn, Wisconsin, USA a meteorite strikes a barn.
- 1916 - Boston Braves' pitcher Tom Hughes scores second no-hitter beating Pittsburgh Pirates 2-0.
- 1917 - First Congress of Soviets convenes in Russia.
- 1917 - Birth of Katharine Graham; newspaper publisher (Washington Post).
- 1920 - Birth of John Howard Griffin; American photographer/author (Black Like Me).
- 1922 - Henry Berliner demonstrates his helicopter to US Bureau of Aeronautics.
- 1925 - Birth of Faith Domergue in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA; actress (House of Seven Corpses).
- 1927 - Tommy Armour wins golf's US open.
- 1928 - Birth of Sergiu Comissiona in Buch, Romania; conductor (Haifa Symphony 1959-64).
- 1932 - President Herbert Hoover and Vice President Charles Curtis renominated by Republican Convention.
- 1933 - National Industrial Recovery Act becomes law (later struck down).
- 1933 - US Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) created.
- 1935 - Birth of Jim Dine in Cincinnati, Ohio, USA; pop artist (Saint John the Divine).
- 1937 - Birth of August Busch III; CEO (Anheuser-Busch).
- 1937 - Birth of Erich Segal; author (Love Story, Oliver's Story).
- 1937 - Birth of Simeon II to Czar Boris III of Bulgaria; czar of Bulgaria (1943-46).
- 1937 - In London, England, Canadian Prime Minister William King meets with the Japanese ambassador. King accepts Japan's intentions in southern Asia as peaceful.
- 1938 - Birth of Joyce Carol Oates; American novelist (Garden of Earthly Delights) (1946).
- 1938 - Birth of Mickie Finn in Hugo, Oklahoma, USA; TV hostess/banjo player (Mickie Finn's).
- 1938 - Saint Louis Browns walk Boston Red Sox Jimmy Foxx six times in a row.
- 1938 - In Pantar, Phillipines, several buildings are struck by falling meteorites.
- 1938 - Congress passes $3.7 billion public works and unemployment relief bill.
- 1940 - Communist government installed in Lithuania.
- 1940 - Soviet forces occupy Latvia.
- 1940 - Soviet Premier Josef Stalin demands Romania cede Bessarabia and northern Bucovina. Romania gives in to the demands.
- 1940 - Paul Reynaud resigns as Prime Minister of France. Marshal Henri Pétain takes over the government, and immediately calls for a ceasefire.
- 1941 - First US federally-owned airport opened in Washington DC.
- 1941 - Birth of Lamont Dozier in Detroit, Michigan, USA; songwriter (Dozier-Holland-Dozier).
- 1942 - Birth of Giacomo Agostini in Lovere, Italy; world motorcycle race champion.
- 1943 - Birth of Joan Van Ark in New York City, New York, USA; actress (Valene - Dallas, Knots Landing).
- 1943 - Race riot in Beaumont Texas (two die).
- 1944 - Birth of Reg Presley; singer (The Troggs - "Wild Thing").
- 1944 - Birth of Takamiyama [Jesse Kuhaulua] in Hawaii; first non-Japanese sumo champion.
- 1946 - Lloyd Mangrum wins golf's US open after two playoffs.
- 1947 - First network news - Dumont's News from Washington.
- 1947 - Soviet news service Pravda denounces American Marshall Plan.
- 1948 - Birth of Brian Eno; rocker ("Here Comes the Warm Jets").
- 1949 - Birth of Kale Browne in San Rafael, California, USA; actor (Michael Hudson - Another World).
- 1949 - Gas turbine-electric locomotive demonstrated, Erie, Pennsylvania, USA.
- 1950 - Birth of Jesse Dizon in Oceanside, California, USA; actor (Ramon - Operation Petticoat).
- 1951 - Ben Hogan wins golf's US open for second year in a row.
- 1951 - Birth of Roberto Duran; boxer (fists of stone, no más).
- 1951 - Birth of Sonia Braga in Maringa, Brazil; actress (Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands).
- 1952 - Birth of Aleksandr Zaitsev in the USSR; pairs figure skating (Olympic-gold-1976, 1980).
- 1952 - Birth of Gino Vanelli; singer ("Living Inside Myself", "Black Cars").
- 1952 - CBS-TV debuts TV show My Little Margie, starring Gale Storm and Charles Farrell.
- 1953 - Despite Johnny Mize's 2,000th hit, New York Yankees lose, ending 18-game win streak.
- 1954 - Colonel Carlos Castillo Armas launches a military coup in Guatemala, authorized, planned, and supported by the American government.
- 1957 - Birth of Clio Goldsmith in Paris, France; actress (The Gift, Heat of Desire).
- 1957 - Chicago White Sox reliever Dixie Howell hits two home runs to beat Washington Senators 8-6.
- 1959 - Death of George Reeves AKA George Lescher Bessolo at age 45 in his home Hollywood, California, USA, found shot, not known if murder or suicide; actor (supporting roles in 40 movies and many TV shows, The Silver Theatre, Suspense, Kraft TV Theatre, The Adventures of Superman TV show).
- 1961 - Soviet ballet dancer Rudolf Nureyev defects to West in Paris, France.
- 1963 - CBS airs the last The General Electric College Bowl TV show.
- 1963 - Levi Eshkol replaces David Ben-Gurion as Israeli Prime Minister.
- 1964 - CBS airs the last (until 1966) The Garry Moore Show TV show.
- 1964 - In the Sea of Japan, 50km north of Niigata, Japan, a magnitude 7.5 earthquake occurs. 3,534 houses destroyed, 11,000 houses damaged. A tsunami generated by the earthquake ravages the west coast of Honshu.
- 1966 - NBC-TV debut The Dean Martin Summer Show featuring the comedy team of Dan Rowan and Dean Martin.
- 1967 - 50,000 attend Monterey International Pop Festival.
- 1968 - Birth of Patrick Stuart in Hollywood, California, USA; actor (Will Cortlandt - All My Children).
- 1968 - Lee Trevino is first to play all four rounds of golf's US open under par.
- 1969 - John Scott, rocker with The Pretenders, dies at age 25.
- 1969 - US Supreme Court rules suspension of Adam Clayton Powell Junior from House had been unconstitutional.
- 1970 - Race riots in Miami, Florida.
- 1975 - Milwaukee Bucks trade Kareem Abdul-Jabber and Walt Wesley to Los Angeles Lakers for four players.
- 1975 - Randy Farland finds a 14-leaf clover near Sioux Falls, South Dakota.
- 1976 - Francis E Meloy Junior, US ambassador to Lebanon, kidnapped and killed.
- 1976 - Student uprisings begin in Soweto, South Africa (Soweto Day).
- 1977 - Leonid Brezhnev is named president of USSR.
- 1977 - Ron Guidry's first complete game, 7-0 over Kansas City Royals.
- 1977 - German-born rocket engineer, Wernher von Braun dies in Alexandria, Virginia at age 65. Von Braun was the world leader in developing rocket technology, director of the experimental unit at Peenemünde where the V1 and V2 rockets were developed, worked for the U. S. Army in White Sands, New Mexico.
- 1978 - Cincinnati Reds' player Tom Seaver no-hits Saint Louis Cardinals, 4-0.
- 1979 - Carl Yastrzemski hits his 1,000th extra base hit.
- 1979 - H-E Schuster discovers asteroid #2275.
- 1982 - Death of John Honeyman-Scott of an overdose on drugs; guitarist (The Pretenders).
- 1982 - Britain requests Argentina arrange for return of prisoners.
- 1983 - Charlos Vieira completes 191-hour "nonstop" cycling in Leiria, Portugal.
- 1983 - European Space Agency launches European Communications Satellite 1, Oscar 10.
- 1984 - Edwin Moses wins his 100th consecutive 400-metre hurdles race.
- 1985 - T C Chen, ahead by four strokes in final round of US Open, loses by one stroke to Andy North.
- 1985 - Willie Banks of USA sets triple jump record (58 feet 11.5 inches) in Indianapolis, Indiana.
- 1987 - Joe Robbie Stadium in Miami, Florida opens.
- 1987 - New York subway gunman Bernhard Goetz acquitted on all but gun possession.
- 1989 - Four golfers shoot a hole-in-one on the same hole at the US Open.
- 1989 - Columbia Pictures releases the film Ghostbusters II to theaters.
- 1989 - A crowd of 250,000 gathers at Heroes Square in Budapest for the historic reburial of Imre Nagy, the former Hungarian prime minister who had been executed in 1958.
- 1991 - Minnesota Twins win a team record 15 games in a row.
- 1991 - Otis Nixon steals National League record six bases in one day.
- 1991 - With three runs in the 9th, Baltimore Orioles end Minnesota Twins' 15-game win streak 6-5.
- 1994 - The Fox TV network airs the last episode of the Herman's Head show.
- 1995 - Salt Lake City, Utah, is selected as host city for the 2002 Winter Olympics.
- 1995 - Death of Jack Wagner of heart attack at age 69; actor, radio personality, announcer of many Disneyland attractions since 1970, retired 1991, named Disney Legend 2005.
- 1995 - Warner Bros. releases the film Batman Forever to theaters.
- 1995 - Buena Vista releases the film Pocahontas to theaters.
- 1996 - Death of Mel Israel AKA Mel Allen at age 83; sportscaster for the New York Yankees, host of This Week in Baseball.
- 1996 - The Chicago Bulls win their fourth NBA Championship by defeating the Seattle Supersonics in the best-of-7 series 4 games to 2.
- 1997 - Dairat Labguer massacre in Algeria; some 50 people killed.
- 1998 - The Detroit Red Wings sweep the Washington Capitals in four games in the 1998 NHL Stanley Cup Finals.
- 1999 - Ira & Larry Goldberg Coins & Collectibles auctions a US 1907 Saint-Gaudens, Ultra-High Relief, Roman Numerals gold double eagle, PR-67 PCGS, for $1.21 million to Tangible Asset Galleries, the first $1 million coin at auction.
- 1999 - Death of Screaming Lord Sutch, English political personality (suicide) (born 1940).
- 1999 - Buena Vista releases the film Tarzan to theaters.
- 1999 - Sociedade Esportiva Palmeiras wins the Libertadores Cup.
- 2000 - Death of Empress Kojun of Japan (born 1903).
- 2001 - The Lord Mayor of Berlin, Ebehard Diepgen (CDU), is removed from office by a vote of no confidence. The new Lord Mayor is Klaus Wowereit (SPD).
- 2003 - The first episode of US TV show The Dead Zone airs.
- 2004 - Death of Thanom Kittikachorn, Prime Minister of Thailand (born 1912).
- 2008 - In France, the 24 Hours of Le Mans race concludes. Audi scores its fifth straight victory, with drivers Allan McNish of Scotland, Rinaldo Capello of Italy, and Tom Kristensen of Denmark. This is a record eighth victory for Kristensen.
- 2008 - Tiger Woods wins the U.S. Open at Torrey Pines in San Diego, California. This is Woods' 14th major and third U.S. Open.
- 2008 - California performs its first legally recognized same-sex weddings.
- 2010 - At least 19 people are killed by flash floods of up to 40cm of rain in south-eastern France in the Cote D'Azur region, the worst since 1827.
- 2010 - An explosion at the San Fernando coalmine in Amaga, Colombia kills 16 miners and traps about 70 underground.
- 2010 - Three large earthquakes hit Indonesia: 6.4 off the island of Yapenm in Papua, the 10 minutes later 7.1 off the northern coast of Papua province, then 5.3 in West Sulawesi province. Three deaths are caused by collapsed houses.
- 2012 - Death of Nayef bin Abdul-Aziz Al Saud, Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia (born 1933).
- 2016 - Shanghai Disneyland theme park opens in the People's Republic of China.
- 2016 - Death of Jo Cox, British Member of Parliament, age 41, shot by a 52-year old gardener.
- 2017 - Death of John G. Avildsen, American film director (born 1935).
- 2017 - Death of Helmut Kohl, Chancellor of Germany (born 1930).
- 2018 - Seventeen people die in Caracas, Venezuela following the El Paraíso stampede after a tear gas canister is detonated in a crowded club.
- 2019 - A large-scale power outage hits Argentina, Uruguay and parts of Paraguay, affecting nearly 50 million people.
- 2019 - 1.9 million people protest in Hong Kong, against a proposed law to allow criminal suspects to be extradited to mainland People's Republic of China.
- 2020 - North Korea demolishes the Inter-Korean Liaison Office in Kaesong, established in 2018 to improve relations.
- 2020 - The number of confirmed cases of COVID-19 passes 8 million worldwide.
- 2022 - NBA Championship won by Golden State Warriors over Boston Celtics in six games.
- 2023 - Death of Daniel Ellsberg at age 92; American government intelligence analyst, anti-war activist, leaker of the Pentagon Papers.
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