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Events on the 16th of June in history

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16 Jun 0363 Emperor Julian marches back up the Tigris and burns his fleet of supply ships. During the withdrawal Roman forces suffering several attacks from the Persians.
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16 Jun 0632 Yazdegerd III ascends to the throne as king (shah) of the Persian Empire. He becomes the last ruler of the Sasanian dynasty (modern Iran).
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16 Jun 0632 Origin of Persian [Yezdegird] Era
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16 Jun 1407 Ming–Hồ War: Retired King Hồ Quý Ly and his son King Hồ Hán Thương of Hồ dynasty are captured by the Ming armies.
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16 Jun 1487 Battle at Stoke: Henry VII beats John de la Pole and Lord Lovell
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16 Jun 1487 Battle of Stoke Field, the final engagement of the Wars of the Roses.
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16 Jun 1567 Mary, Queen of Scots, imprisoned in Lochleven Castle prison Scotland
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16 Jun 1567 Mary Queen of Scots thrown into Lochleven Castle prison
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16 Jun 1586 Mary, Queen of Scots, recognizes Philip II of Spain as her heir and successor.
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16 Jun 1624 Judge directs US colony Virginia to English crown
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16 Jun 1671 Cossack rebel leader Stenka Razin tortured, executed in Moscow
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16 Jun 1673 Peace of Vossem: French King Louis XIV and Frederik Willem of Brandenburg
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16 Jun 1745 English fleet occupies Cap Breton on St. Lawrence River
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16 Jun 1745 British troops take Cape Breton Island, which is now part of Nova Scotia, Canada.
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16 Jun 1745 War of the Austrian Succession: New England colonial troops under the command of William Pepperrell capture the French Fortress of Louisbourg in Louisbourg, Nova Scotia (Old Style).
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16 Jun 1746 Battle at Piacenza: Austria and Sardinia beat Spanish and French army
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16 Jun 1746 War of Austrian Succession: Austria and Sardinia defeat a Franco-Spanish army at the Battle of Piacenza.
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16 Jun 1755 French and Indian War: the French surrender Fort Beauséjour to the British, leading to the expulsion of the Acadians.
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16 Jun 1755 British capture Fort Beaus
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16 Jun 1774 Foundation of Harrodsburg, Kentucky.
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16 Jun 1775 Liberty Bell rang for the 2nd Continental Congress
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16 Jun 1779 In support of the US, Spain declares war on England
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16 Jun 1779 Vice-adm Hardy sails out of Isle of Wright against Spanish Armada
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16 Jun 1779 Spain declares war on the Kingdom of Great Britain, and the Great Siege of Gibraltar begins.
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16 Jun 1784 Holland forbids orange clothes
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16 Jun 1794 1st stone layed at Dutch biggest grain windmill (De Walvisch)
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16 Jun 1795 First Battle of Groix otherwise known as "Cornwallis' Retreat".
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16 Jun 1815 Battle at Ligny: French army under Napoleon beats Prussia
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16 Jun 1815 Battle at Quatre-Bras: allies strike French
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16 Jun 1815 Battle of Ligny and Battle of Quatre Bras, two days before the Battle of Waterloo.
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16 Jun 1816 Lord Byron reads Fantasmagoriana to his four house guests at the Villa Diodati, Percy Shelley, Mary Shelley, Claire Clairmont, and John Polidori, and inspires his challenge that each guest write a ghost story, which culminated in Mary Shelley writing the novel Frankenstein, John Polidori writing the short story The Vampyre, and Byron writing the poem Darkness.
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16 Jun 1822 Denmark Vessy leads slave rebellion in South Carolina
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16 Jun 1823 King Willem I opens shipyard at Rotterdam-Antwerp
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16 Jun 1832 Battle of Kellogg's Grove, Ill
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16 Jun 1836 The formation of the London Working Men's Association gives rise to the Chartist Movement.
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16 Jun 1842 Natchex Mississippi, hit by tornado; about 500 die
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16 Jun 1846 The Papal conclave of 1846 concludes. Pope Pius IX is elected Pope beginning the longest reign in the history of the papacy.
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16 Jun 1858 Abraham Lincoln says "A house divided against itself cannot stand"
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16 Jun 1858 Abraham Lincoln delivers his House Divided speech in Springfield, Illinois.
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16 Jun 1858 The Battle of Morar takes place during the Indian Mutiny.
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16 Jun 1861 Battle of Vienna, VA and Secessionville, SC (James Island)
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16 Jun 1864 Battle of Lynchburg, Virginia
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16 Jun 1864 Skirmish at Golgotha, Georgia
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16 Jun 1864 Union General Grant begin siege of Petersburg, Virginia
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16 Jun 1864 Siege of Petersburg & Richmond begins
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16 Jun 1871 Ancient Arabic Order of Nobles of Mystic Shrine founded, New York City
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16 Jun 1871 The University Tests Act allows students to enter the Universities of Oxford, Cambridge and Durham without religious tests (except for those intending to study theology).
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16 Jun 1879 Gilbert & Sullivan's "HMS Pinafore" debuts at Bowery Theatre NYC
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16 Jun 1880 Salvation Army forms in Londo
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16 Jun 1881 Austria-Hungary and Serbia sign military treaty
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16 Jun 1882 17" hailstones weighing 1.75 lbs fall in Dubuque, Iowa
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16 Jun 1883 The Victoria Hall theatre panic in Sunderland, England kills 183 children.
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16 Jun 1883 1st baseball "Ladies' Day" (NY Gothams beat Cleve Spiders 5-2)
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16 Jun 1884 On Coney Island, the 1st roller coaster begins operating
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16 Jun 1884 The first purpose-built roller coaster, LaMarcus Adna Thompson's "Switchback Railway", opens in New York's Coney Island amusement park.
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16 Jun 1891 John Abbott becomes Canada's third Prime Minister.
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16 Jun 1893 RW Rueckheim invents Cracker Jack
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16 Jun 1896 Temperture hits 127
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16 Jun 1897 A treaty annexing the Republic of Hawaii to the United States is signed; the Republic would not be dissolved until a year later.
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16 Jun 1903 Pepsi Cola company forms
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16 Jun 1903 The Ford Motor Company is incorporated.
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16 Jun 1903 Roald Amundsen commences the first east-west navigation of the Northwest Passage, leaving Oslo, Norway.
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16 Jun 1903 1st Highlander (Yankee) shut-out victory 1-0 over White Sox
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16 Jun 1903 Ford Motors incorporates
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16 Jun 1904 Eugen Schauman assassinates Nikolai Bobrikov, Governor-General of Finland.
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16 Jun 1904 Irish author James Joyce begins a relationship with Nora Barnacle and subsequently uses the date to set the actions for his novel Ulysses; this date is now traditionally called "Bloomsday".
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16 Jun 1904 Bloomsday (date of events in James Joyce's Ulysses)
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16 Jun 1909 Jim Thorpe makes his pro baseball pitching debut for Rocky Mount (ECL) with 4-2 win, this will cause him to forfeit his Olympic medals
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16 Jun 1909 1st US airplane sold commercially, by Glenn Curtiss for $5,000
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16 Jun 1911 IBM founded as the Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company in Endicott, New York.
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16 Jun 1911 A 772 gram stony meteorite strikes the earth near Kilbourn, Wisconsin damaging a barn.
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16 Jun 1913 South-African parliament forbids blacks owning land
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16 Jun 1915 Foundation of the British Women's Institute.
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16 Jun 1916 Boston Brave's Tom Hughes 2nd no-hitter beats Pitts, 2-0
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16 Jun 1917 49th Belmont: James Butwell aboard Hourless wins in 2:17.8
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16 Jun 1917 1st Congress of Soviets convene in Russia
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16 Jun 1922 General election in the Irish Free State: the pro-Treaty Sinn Féin win a large majority.
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16 Jun 1922 Henry Berliner demonstrates his helicopter to US Bureau of Aeronautics
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16 Jun 1923 Sun Yat Sen founds military academy
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16 Jun 1924 South Africa all out 30 vs. England in 48 minutes, Gilligan 6-7
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16 Jun 1924 The Whampoa Military Academy is founded.
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16 Jun 1925 The most famous Young Pioneer camp of the Soviet Union, Artek, is established.
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16 Jun 1927 31st US Golf Open: Tommy Armour shoots a 301 at Oakmont Country Club - Pennsylvania
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16 Jun 1927 Tommy Armour wins golf's US open
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16 Jun 1929 Otto E Funk, 62, ends marathon walk (NY to SF, 4165 miles in 183 days)
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16 Jun 1930 Sovnarkom establishes decree time in the USSR.
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16 Jun 1931 Austrian government of Ender falls
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16 Jun 1932 Germany forbids SA / SS-gang fights
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16 Jun 1932 President Hoover and VP Charles Curtis renominated by Republican Convention
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16 Jun 1933 The National Industrial Recovery Act is passed.
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16 Jun 1933 National Industrial Recovery Act becomes law (later struck down)
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16 Jun 1933 US Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) created
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16 Jun 1936 Dutch Queen Wilhelmina opens the Waal bridge
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16 Jun 1936 Pope Pius XI receives Anton Mussert (Dutch Nazi collaborator)
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16 Jun 1937 Marx Brothers' "A Day At The Races" opens in LA
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16 Jun 1938 Jimmie Foxx is walked a record 6 consecutive times by Browns
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16 Jun 1938 St Louis Browns walk Boston Red Sox Jimmy Foxx 6 times in a row
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16 Jun 1940 General De Gaulle arrives in Bordeaux
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16 Jun 1940 World War II: Marshal Henri Philippe Pétain becomes Chief of State of Vichy France (Chef de l'État Français).
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16 Jun 1940 A Communist government is installed in Lithuania.
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16 Jun 1941 1st US federally owned airport opened Washington DC
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16 Jun 1943 Race riot in Beaumont Texas (2 die)
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16 Jun 1944 Iceland adopts constitution
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16 Jun 1944 US bombs Kyushu Japan
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16 Jun 1944 At age 14, George Junius Stinney, Jr. becomes the youngest person executed in the United States in the 20th century.
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16 Jun 1945 71st Preakness: Wayne D Wright aboard Polynesian wins in 1:58.8
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16 Jun 1945 Boo Ferriss loses to Yanks 3-2 after starting his career with 8 wins
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16 Jun 1946 "Annie Get Your Gun" opens at Imperial Theater NYC for 1147 performances
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16 Jun 1946 46th US Golf Open: Lloyd Mangrum shoots a 284 at Canterbury Golf Club - Cleveland
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16 Jun 1946 Lloyd Mangrum wins golf's US open after 2 playoffs
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16 Jun 1947 1st network news-Dumont's "News from Washington"
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16 Jun 1947 Pravda denounces Marshall Plan
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16 Jun 1948 Members of the Malayan Communist Party kill three British plantation managers in Sungai Siput; in response, British Malaya declares a state of emergency.
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16 Jun 1949 Gas turbine-electric locomotive demonstrated, Erie, Pennsylvania
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16 Jun 1951 83rd Belmont: David Gorman aboard Counterpoint wins in 2:29
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16 Jun 1951 Ben Hogan wins golf's US open for 2nd year in a row
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16 Jun 1952 Soviet Fighters shoot Swedish Catalina reconnaissance flight down
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16 Jun 1953 Despite Johnny Mize 2,000th hit, Yanks lose ending 18 game win streak and also ending St. Louis Browns 14 game losing streak
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16 Jun 1953 Despite Johnny Mize 2,000th hit, Yanks lose ending 18 game win streak
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16 Jun 1954 Dutch military conscription shortened from 20 to 18 months
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16 Jun 1954 Ngo Dinh Diem elected President of Vietnam
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16 Jun 1955 Louise Suggs wins LPGA Triangle Round Robin Golf Tournament
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16 Jun 1955 Pope Pius XII ex-communicates Argentine President Juan Peron
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16 Jun 1955 In a futile effort to topple President Juan Perón, rogue aircraft pilots of the Argentine Navy drop several bombs upon an unarmed crowd demonstrating in favor of Perón in Buenos Aires, killing 364 and injuring at least 800. At the same time on the ground, some forces soldiers attempt to stage a coup but are suppressed by loyal forces.
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16 Jun 1956 56th US Golf Open: Cary Middlecoff shoots a 281 at Oak Hill Country Club - New York
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16 Jun 1956 88th Belmont: David Erb aboard Needles wins in 2:29.8
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16 Jun 1957 French offensive in Algeria
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16 Jun 1957 White Sox reliever Dixie Howell hits 2 HRs to beat Washingston Senators 8-6
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16 Jun 1958 Government troops land on North-Celebes Indonesia
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16 Jun 1958 Imre Nagy, Pál Maléter and other leaders of the 1956 Hungarian Uprising are executed.
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16 Jun 1960 "Psycho, " opens in New York
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16 Jun 1960 President Eisenhower cancels trip to Japan
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16 Jun 1961 Discoverer 25 launched
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16 Jun 1961 Rudolf Nureyev defects from the Soviet Union.
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16 Jun 1961 Dave Garroway is fired as Today Show host
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16 Jun 1961 Soviet ballet dancer Rudolf Nureyev defects to West in Paris
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16 Jun 1962 2 US army officers killed in Saigon
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16 Jun 1962 Caspar Weinberger (Secretary of Defense 1981-87), indicted on Iran-contra charge
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16 Jun 1963 Levi Eshkol replaces David Ben-Gurion as Israeli Prime Minister
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16 Jun 1963 Soviet Space Program: Vostok 6 Mission – Cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova becomes the first woman in space.
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16 Jun 1963 Valentina Tereshkova becomes 1st woman in space, aboard Vostok 6
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16 Jun 1964 Amnesty granted to 3,000 political prisoners
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16 Jun 1964 Quake strikes Niigata Japan
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16 Jun 1966 "Rowan & Martin Show, " debuts on NBC-TV
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16 Jun 1966 20th Tony Awards: Marat / Sade and Man of La Mancha win
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16 Jun 1967 The Monterey Pop Festival begins
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16 Jun 1967 50,000 attend Monterey International Pop Festival
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16 Jun 1968 68th US Golf Open: Lee Trevino shoots a 275 at Oak Hill Country Club - New York
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16 Jun 1968 Mickey Wright wins LPGA "500" Ladies Golf Classic
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16 Jun 1968 Lee Trevino is 1st to play all 4 rounds of golf's US open under par
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16 Jun 1969 Supreme Court rules suspension of Adam Clayton Powell Jr from House
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16 Jun 1970 Kenneth A Gibson elected 1st black Mayor of Newark, New Jersey
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16 Jun 1970 Race riots in Miami Florida
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16 Jun 1971 Groningen soccer team forms in Groningen
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16 Jun 1971 Racial disturbance in Jacksonville Florida
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16 Jun 1972 The largest single-site hydroelectric power project in Canada is inaugurated at Churchill Falls Generating Station.
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16 Jun 1973 Leonid I Brezhnev visit US
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16 Jun 1974 74th US Golf Open: Hale Irwin shoots a 287 at Winged Foot Golf Club - New York
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16 Jun 1974 Homer Simpson and Marge Bouvier wed
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16 Jun 1975 Randy Farland finds a 14-leaf clover near Sioux Falls, South Dakota
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16 Jun 1975 Supreme Court rules uniform minimum legal fees are a violation
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16 Jun 1975 Bucks trade Kareem Abdul-Jabber & Walt Wesley to LA for 4 players
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16 Jun 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.
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16 Jun 1976 Student uprisings begin in Soweto, South Africa (Soweto Day)
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16 Jun 1977 "Beatlemania" opens on Broadway
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16 Jun 1977 Fianna Fail-party wins Irish elections
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16 Jun 1977 Leonid Brezhnev named President of the USSR
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16 Jun 1977 Oracle Corporation is incorporated in Redwood Shores, California, as Software Development Laboratories (SDL) by Larry Ellison, Bob Miner and Ed Oates.
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16 Jun 1977 "Beatlemania" opens on Broadway
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16 Jun 1977 Ron Guidry's 1st complete game, 7-0 over KC Royals
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16 Jun 1978 Cin Red Tom Seaver no-hits St. Louis Cardinals, 4-0
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16 Jun 1978 Ringo releases "Bad Boy" album; Wings releases "I've Had Enough"
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16 Jun 1979 "Logical Song" by Supertramp peaks at #6
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16 Jun 1979 Moslem Brotherhood kills 62 sheiks in Aleppo Syria
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16 Jun 1979 Carl Yastrzemski hits his 1,000th extra base hit
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16 Jun 1979 H-E Schuster discovers asteroid #2275
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16 Jun 1980 "Blues Brothers, " premieres in Chicago
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16 Jun 1980 Supreme Court rules new forms of life created in labs could be patents
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16 Jun 1981 U.S. President Ronald Reagan awards the Congressional Gold Medal to Ken Taylor, Canada's former ambassador to Iran, for helping six Americans escape from Iran during the hostage crisis of 1979-81; he is the first foreign citizen bestowed the honor.
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16 Jun 1982 Britain requests Argentina arrange for return of prisoners
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16 Jun 1983 Charlos Vieira completes 191 hour "nonstop" cycling in Leiria Portugal
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16 Jun 1983 Pope John Paul II visits Poland
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16 Jun 1983 Ringo releases "Old Wave" album in West Germany
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16 Jun 1983 USSR party leader Yuri Andropov elected President
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16 Jun 1983 European Space Agency launches European Comm Satellite 1, Oscar 10
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16 Jun 1984 Edwin Moses wins his 100th consecutive 400-meter hurdles race
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16 Jun 1984 Matt de Waal finishes 14,290-mi round trip from Salt Lake City (106d)
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16 Jun 1985 85th US Golf Open: Andy North shoots a 279 at Oakland Hills Country Club - Michigan
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16 Jun 1985 Pat Bradley wins LPGA Rochester Golf International
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16 Jun 1985 T C Chen, ahead by 4 strokes in final round of US Open
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16 Jun 1985 Willie Banks of USA sets triple jump record (58'11
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16 Jun 1986 1 day general strike in South Africa
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16 Jun 1987 Subway gunman Bernhard Goetz acquitted on all but gun possession charges after shooting 4 black youths who tried to rob him
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16 Jun 1987 Joe Robbie Stadium in Miami, opens
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16 Jun 1987 Subway gunman Bernhard Goetz acquitted on all but gun possession
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16 Jun 1988 Boston Red Sox Barrett steals home
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16 Jun 1988 In Santa Barbara, CA, a team of 32 divers begin cycling underwater
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16 Jun 1989 "Ghostbusters II" premieres
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16 Jun 1989 Funeral for Imre Nagg, leader of Hungarian uprising in 1956
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16 Jun 1989 Only 17 hole-in-ones recorded since US open began, today 4 more are made all on 6th hole (Weaver, Wiebe, Pate & Price)
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16 Jun 1989 Revolutions of 1989: Imre Nagy, the former Hungarian Prime Minister, is reburied in Budapest following the collapse of Communism in Hungary.
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16 Jun 1989 "Ghostbusters II" premiers
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16 Jun 1989 4 golfers shoot a hole-in-one on the same hole at the US Open
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16 Jun 1990 Nelson andWinnie Mandela visit Leidseplein, Amsterdam
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16 Jun 1991 "Fiddler on the Roof" closes at Gershwin Theater NYC after 241 performances
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16 Jun 1991 91st US Golf Open: Payne Stewart shoots a 282 at Hazeline National
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16 Jun 1991 Colleen Walker wins LPGA Lady Keystone Golf Open
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16 Jun 1991 Boris Yeltsin elected president of Russian SSR
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16 Jun 1991 Minnesota Twins win a team record 15 games in a row
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16 Jun 1991 NYC Mayor Dinkins declares "Joseph Doherty Week" (through the 23rd)
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16 Jun 1991 Otis Nixon steals NL record 6 bases in 1 day
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16 Jun 1991 With 3 runs in the 9th, Balt ends Twins 15 game win streak 6-5
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16 Jun 1992 Great Britain postage stamp 350 year battle near Edgehill
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16 Jun 1992 Jeff King is 5th to be thrown out twice trying to steal in an inning
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16 Jun 1992 Red Sox Mark Reardon sets record of 342 saves (vs. Yanks 1-0)
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16 Jun 1994 Martin Brodeur becomes 1st Devil to win Calder Trophy
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16 Jun 1995 "Batman Forever" opens with a record $528 million weekend
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16 Jun 1995 Marlins outfielder Andre Dawson hits his 400th NL career HR (429)
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16 Jun 1995 Salt Lake City awarded the XIX Winter Olympics in 2002
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16 Jun 1996 1st competitive game played on turf in Holland (in third grade)
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16 Jun 1996 50th NBA Championship: Chicago Bulls beat Seat Supersonic, 4 games to 2
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16 Jun 1996 96th US Golf Open: Steve Jones shoots a 278 wins at Oakland Hills Country Club
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16 Jun 1996 Liselotte Neumann wins First Bank Edina Realty LPGA Golf Classic
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16 Jun 1997 31st Music City News Country Awards: Alan Jackson and LeAnn Rimes
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16 Jun 2000 Israel complies with United Nations Security Council Resolution 425 22 years after its issuance, which calls on Israel to completely withdraw from Lebanon. Israel does so, except the disputed Shebaa farms.
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16 Jun 2010 Bhutan becomes the first country to institute a total ban on tobacco.
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16 Jun 2012 China successfully launches its Shenzhou 9 spacecraft, carrying three astronauts – including the first female Chinese astronaut, Liu Yang – to the Tiangong-1 orbital module.
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16 Jun 2012 The United States Air Force's robotic Boeing X-37B spaceplane returns to Earth after a classified 469-day orbital mission.
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