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What happened in history on this day: June 16?
On June 16 in ...
- 1832 - Battle of Kellogg's Grove, Illinois.
- 1864 - Siege of Petersburg and Richmond begins.
- 1871 - Ancient Arabic Order of Nobles of the Mystic Shrine is founded, in New York City.
- 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.
- 1902 - Military rule in the Philippines is replaced by civilian government.
- 1902 - US Senators receive from French engineer Phillippe Bunau-Varilla a 1902 2-cent postage stamp of Nicaragua depicting the March 24 volcano eruption, with an argument that Nicaragua was unstable geological terrain, unsuitable for a canal.
- 1903 - Ford Motors incorporates.
- 1909 - First US airplane sold commercially, by Glenn Curtiss for $5,000.
- 1911 - In Kilbourn, Wisconsin, USA a meteorite strikes a barn.
- 1921 - US Congress creates the office of Undersecretary of the Treasurer.
- 1922 - Henry Berliner demonstrates his helicopter to US Bureau of Aeronautics.
- 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.
- 1938 - Congress passes $3.7 billion public works and unemployment relief bill.
- 1941 - First US federally-owned airport opened in Washington DC.
- 1943 - Race riot in Beaumont Texas (two die).
- 1947 - First network news - Dumont's News from Washington.
- 1947 - Soviet news service Pravda denounces American Marshall Plan.
- 1949 - Gas turbine-electric locomotive demonstrated, Erie, Pennsylvania, USA.
- 1954 - Colonel Carlos Castillo Armas launches a military coup in Guatemala, authorized, planned, and supported by the American government.
- 1967 - 50,000 attend Monterey International Pop Festival.
- 1969 - US Supreme Court rules suspension of Adam Clayton Powell Junior from House had been unconstitutional.
- 1970 - Race riots in Miami, Florida.
- 1976 - Francis E Meloy Junior, US ambassador to Lebanon, kidnapped and killed.
- 1987 - New York subway gunman Bernhard Goetz acquitted on all but gun possession.
- 1995 - Salt Lake City, Utah, is selected as host city for the 2002 Winter Olympics.
- 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.
- 2008 - California performs its first legally recognized same-sex weddings.
Births on June 16
- 1902 - Birth of Barbara McClintock in USA; cytogeneticist (Nobel Prize 1983).
- 1907 - Birth of Jack Albertson in Malden, Massachusetts, USA; actor (Thin Man, Chico and the Man).
- 1925 - Birth of Faith Domergue in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA; actress (House of Seven Corpses).
- 1935 - Birth of Jim Dine in Cincinnati, Ohio, USA; pop artist (Saint John the Divine).
- 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).
- 1941 - Birth of Lamont Dozier in Detroit, Michigan, USA; songwriter (Dozier-Holland-Dozier).
- 1943 - Birth of Joan Van Ark in New York City, New York, USA; actress (Valene - Dallas, Knots Landing).
- 1944 - Birth of Takamiyama [Jesse Kuhaulua] in Hawaii; first non-Japanese sumo champion.
- 1949 - Birth of Kale Browne in San Rafael, California, USA; actor (Michael Hudson - Another World).
- 1950 - Birth of Jesse Dizon in Oceanside, California, USA; actor (Ramon - Operation Petticoat).
- 1968 - Birth of Patrick Stuart in Hollywood, California, USA; actor (Will Cortlandt - All My Children).
Deaths on June 16
- 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).
- 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.
- 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.
- 2023 - Death of Daniel Ellsberg at age 92; American government intelligence analyst, anti-war activist, leaker of the Pentagon Papers.
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