Notable Historical Events on June 16th
June 16th Historical Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
632 |
Origin of Persian [Yezdegird] Era |
1338 |
German monarch declares pope & king's decree redundant |
1487 |
Battle of Stoke, Nottinghamshire: Henry VII beats John de la Pole & Lord Lovell |
1567 |
Mary, Queen of Scots, imprisoned in Lochleven Castle prison Scotland |
1624 |
Judge directs US colony Virginia to English crown |
1673 |
Peace of Vossem: French King Louis XIV & Frederik Willem of Brandenburg |
1745 |
British fleet occupies Cap Breton on St Lawrence River |
1746 |
Battle at Piacenza: Austria & Sardinia beat Spanish & French army |
1755 |
British capture Fort Beauséjour, expel Acadians |
1774 |
Formation of Harrodsburg, Kentucky. |
1779 |
Spain declares war on Great Britain in support of the US, and the siege of Gibraltar begins. |
1784 |
Holland forbids orange clothes |
1794 |
1st stone layed at Dutch biggest grain windmill (De Walvisch) |
1815 |
Battle at Ligny: French army under Napoleon beats Prussia |
1815 |
Battle at Quatre-Bras: allies strike French |
1822 |
Denmark Vessy leads slave rebellion in South Carolina |
1823 |
King Willem I opens shipyard at Rotterdam-Antwerp |
1832 |
Battle of Kellogg's Grove, Illinois |
1836 |
London Working Men's Association forms |
1858 |
Abraham Lincoln says "A house divided against itself cannot stand" accepting Illinois Republican Party's nomination for the Senate |
1861 |
Battle of Vienna, VA & Secessionville, SC (James Island) |
1864 |
Battle of Lynchburg, VA |
1864 |
Skirmish at Golgotha, Georgia |
1864 |
Union General Ulysses S. Grant begin siege of Petersburg, Va |
1871 |
Ancient Arabic Order of Nobles of Mystic Shrine founded, NYC |
1871 |
The University Tests Act allows students to enter the Universities of Oxford, Cambridge and Durham without religious tests, except for courses in theology. |
1873 |
Pres Grant decrees Wallowa Valley for Nez-Perce indians |
1879 |
Gilbert & Sullivan's "HMS Pinafore" debuts at Bowery Theater NYC |
1880 |
Salvation Army forms in London |
1881 |
Austria-Hungary & Serbia sign military treaty |
1882 |
17" hailstones weighing 1.75 lbs fall in Dubuque Iowa |
1883 |
1st baseball "Ladies' Day" (NY Gothams beat Cleve Spiders 5-2) |
1883 |
The Victoria Hall theatre panic in Sunderland, England kills 183 children |
1884 |
1st roller coaster used (Coney Island NY) |
1891 |
John Abbott becomes Canada's third prime minister. |
1893 |
RW Rueckheim invents Cracker Jack |
1896 |
Temperature hits 127°F at Fort Mojave, Calif |
1897 |
A treaty annexing the Republic of Hawaii to the United States is signed; the Republic would not be dissolved until a year later. |
1898 |
China's emperor De Zong (Guang Xu) receives Kang Youwei |
1899 |
Victor Trumper's 1st Test Cricket century 135* v England, Lord's |
1900 |
In China, a fire is set by Boxers, virtually destroying the Western Quarter and spreading to engulf many Chinese landmarks |
1903 |
1st Highlander (Yankee) shut-out victory 1-0 over White Sox |
1903 |
Ford Motors under Henry Ford incorporates |
1903 |
Pepsi Cola company forms |
1903 |
Roald Amundsen commences the first east-west navigation of the Northwest Passage by leaving Oslo, Norway. |
1904 |
Bloomsday (date of events in James Joyce's Ulysses) |
1904 |
Eugen Schauman assassinates Nikolai Bobrikov, Governor-General of Finland. |
1907 |
Tsar Nicolas II of Russia dissolves the Second Duma (parliament) and issues an edict that will increase representation of propertied classes while reducing that of peasants, workers and national minorities |
1908 |
The Republican Party convenes in Chicago where President Roosevelt picks William H. Taft as his successor |
1909 |
1st US airplane sold commercially, by Glenn Curtiss for $5,000 |
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 |
1911 |
A 772 gram stony meteorite strikes the earth near Kilbourn, Columbia County, Wisconsin damaging a barn. |
1913 |
South African Government pass the segregationist Native Land Act, which restricts purchase or lease of land by native Africans |
1915 |
The foundation of the British Women's Institute. |
1916 |
Boston Brave's Tom Hughes 2nd no-hitter beats Pitts, 2-0 |
1916 |
Passing of the Military Services Bill introduces conscription in New Zealand |
1917 |
1st All Russian Congress of the Soviets convenes in Petrograd, Russia [OS Jun 3] |
1917 |
49th Belmont: James Butwell aboard Hourless wins in 2:17.8 |
1922 |
Henry Berliner demonstrates his helicopter to US Bureau of Aeronautics |
1923 |
Sun Yat Sen founds military academy |
1924 |
South Africa all out 30 v England in 48 minutes, Gilligan 6-7 |
1925 |
The most famous Young Pioneer camp of the USSR, Artek, is established. |
1925 |
The Union Government rejects a round-table conference with India on the grounds that it will constitute interference in South African affairs |
1927 |
31st US Golf Open: Tommy Armour shoots a 301 at Oakmont CC in Pa |
1929 |
Otto E Funk, 62, ends marathon walk (NY to SF, 4165 miles in 183 days) |
1930 |
Sovnarkom establishes decree time in the USSR. |
1931 |
Austrian government of Ender falls |
1932 |
Germany forbids SA/SS-gang fights |
1932 |
President Hoover & VP Charles Curtis renominated by Rep Convention |
1932 |
Sutcliffe & Holmes make 555 opening cricket stand for Yorks v Essex |
1933 |
National Industrial Recovery Act becomes law (later struck down) |
1933 |
US Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) created |
1935 |
US Congress accepts FDR's "New Deal" |
1936 |
Dutch queen Wilhelmina opens the Waal bridge |
1936 |
Pope Pius XI receives Anton Mussert (Dutch Nazi collaborator) |
1937 |
Marx Brothers' "A Day At The Races" opens in LA |
1938 |
Boston Red Sox Jimmie Foxx is walked a record 6 consecutive times by St Louis Browns |
1940 |
Communist government installed in Lithuania |
1940 |
General De Gaulle arrives in Bordeaux |
1941 |
1st US federally owned airport opened Wash DC |
1943 |
Race riot in Beaumont Texas (2 die) |
1944 |
Iceland adopts constitution |
1944 |
King George VI visits General Montgomery's HQ in Normandy |
1944 |
US bombs Kyushu Japan |
1945 |
71st Preakness: Wayne D Wright aboard Polynesian wins in 1:58.8 |
1945 |
Boo Ferriss loses to Yanks 3-2 after starting his career with 8 wins |
1946 |
"Annie Get Your Gun" opens at Imperial Theater NYC for 1147 perfs |
1946 |
46th US Golf Open: Lloyd Mangrum shoots a 284 at Canterbury GC Cleve |
1947 |
1st network news-Dumont's "News from Washington" |
1947 |
Pravda denounces Marshall Plan |
1949 |
Gas turbine-electric locomotive demonstrated, Erie Pa |
1951 |
51st US Golf Open: Ben Hogan shoots a 287 at Oakland Hills CC Mich |
1951 |
83rd Belmont: David Gorman aboard Counterpoint wins in 2:29 |
1952 |
Soviet Fighters shoot Swedish Catalina reconnaissance flight down |
1953 |
Despite Johnny Mize 2,000th hit, Yanks lose ending 18 game win streak & also ending St Louis Brown 14 game losing streak |
1954 |
Dutch military conscription shortened from 20 to 18 months |
1954 |
Ngo Dinh Diem elected president of Vietnam |
1955 |
Louise Suggs wins LPGA Triangle Round Robin Golf Tournament |
1955 |
Pope Pius XII ex-communicates Argentine Pres Juan Peron |
1956 |
56th US Golf Open: Cary Middlecoff shoots a 281 at Oak Hill CC NY |
1956 |
88th Belmont: David Erb aboard Needles wins in 2:29.8 |
1957 |
French offensive in Algeria |
1957 |
White Sox reliever Dixie Howell hits 2 HRs to beat Wash Senators 8-6 |
1958 |
"Flip Top Box" by Dicky Doo & The Don'ts hits #46 |
1958 |
Government troops land on North-Celebes Indonesia |
1959 |
In South Africa, Apartheid government efforts to remove Black people from Cato Manor close to the Durban city center to Kwa Mashu, a newly established black township on the outskirts, is met with violent resistance. |
1960 |
"Psycho", starring Janet Leigh, Anthony Perkins, and Vera Miles, opens in NY |
1960 |
Pres Eisenhower cancels trip to Japan |
1961 |
Dave Garroway is fired as Today Show host |
1961 |
Discoverer 25 launched |
1961 |
Soviet ballet dancer Rudolf Nureyev defects to West in Paris |
1962 |
2 US army officers killed in Saigon |
1963 |
Levi Eshkol replaces David Ben-Gurion as Israeli Prime Minister |
1963 |
Ruth Jessen wins LPGA Cosmopolitan Women's Golf Open |
1963 |
Valentina Tereshkova (USSR) is 1st woman in space, aboard Vostok 6 |
1964 |
Amnesty granted to 3,000 political prisoners |
1964 |
Quake strikes Niigata Japan |
1966 |
Rowan & Martin host The Dean Martin Show, Summer Series, on NBC-TV |
1966 |
20th Tony Awards: Marat/Sade & Man of La Mancha win |
1967 |
50,000 attend Monterey International Pop Festival |
1968 |
Mickey Wright wins LPGA "500" Ladies Golf Classic |
1968 |
68th US Golf Open: Lee Trevino shoots a 275 at Oak Hill CC NY |
1968 |
Lee Trevino is 1st to play all 4 rounds of golf's US open under par |
1969 |
Supreme Court rules suspension of Adam Clayton Powell Jr from House |
1970 |
Kenneth A Gibson elected 1st black mayor of Newark, NJ |
1970 |
Race riots in Miami Florida |
1971 |
Groningen soccer team forms in Groningen |
1971 |
Racial disturbance in Jacksonville Florida |
1972 |
The largest single-site hydro-electric power project in Canada starts at Churchill Falls, Labrador. |
1973 |
Leonid I Brezhnev visit US |
1974 |
74th US Golf Open: Hale Irwin shoots a 287 at Winged Foot GC NY |
1974 |
Sandra Haynie wins Lawson's LPGA Golf Open |
1975 |
Bucks trade Kareem Abdul-Jabber & Walt Wesley to LA for 4 players |
1975 |
Italy's Communist party PCI, wins |
1975 |
Randy Farland finds a 14-leaf clover near Sioux Falls, SD |
1975 |
Supreme Court rules uniform minimum legal fees are a violation |
1976 |
Students in Soweto, South Africa, march against the use of Afrikaans as a medium of instruction in Black secondary schools. |
1977 |
"Beatlemania" opens on Broadway |
1977 |
Fianna Fail-party wins Irish elections |
1977 |
Leonid Brezhnev named president of USSR |
1977 |
Ron Guidry's 1st complete game, 7-0 over KC Royals |
1977 |
Oracle Corporation is incorporated in Redwood Shores, California, as Software Development Laboratories (SDL) by Larry Ellison, Bob Miner and Ed Oates. |
1978 |
Cin Red Tom Seaver no-hits St Louis Cards, 4-0 |
1978 |
Ringo releases "Bad Boy" album; Wings releases "I've Had Enough" |
1979 |
"Logical Song" by Supertramp peaks at #6 |
1979 |
Carl Yastrzemski hits his 1,000th extra base hit |
1979 |
Moslem Brotherhood kills 62 sheiks in Aleppo Syria |
1980 |
"Blues Brothers" premieres in Chicago |
1980 |
US Supreme Court rules new forms of life created in labs could be patents |
1982 |
Britain requests Argentina arrange for return of prisoners |
1983 |
Charlos Vieira completes 191 hr "nonstop" cycling in Leiria Portugal |
1983 |
European Space Agency launches European Comm Satellite 1, Oscar 10 |
1983 |
Pope John Paul II visits Poland |
1983 |
Ringo releases "Old Wave" album in West Germany |
1983 |
USSR party leader Yuri Andropov elected president |
1984 |
Edwin Moses wins his 100th consecutive 400-meter hurdles race |
1984 |
Matt de Waal finishes 14,290-mi round trip from Salt Lake City (106d) |
1985 |
85th US Golf Open: Andy North shoots a 279 at Oakland Hills CC Mich |
1985 |
Pat Bradley wins LPGA Rochester Golf International |
1985 |
T C Chen, ahead by 4 strokes in final round of US Open |
1985 |
Willie Banks of USA sets triple jump record (58 feet 11 inches) in Indianapolis |
1986 |
1 day general strike in South Africa |
1987 |
Joe Robbie Stadium in Miami, opens |
1987 |
Subway gunman Bernhard Goetz acquitted on all but gun possession charges after shooting 4 black youths who tried to rob him |
1988 |
Boston Red Sox Barrett steals home |
1988 |
In Santa Barbara, CA, a team of 32 divers begin cycling underwater on a standard tricycle, to complete 116.66 mi in 75 hrs 20 mins |
1989 |
"Ghostbusters II" premieres |
1989 |
Funeral for Imre Nagg, leader of Hungarian uprising in 1956 |
1989 |
Only 17 hole-in-ones recorded since US open began, today 4 more are made all on 6th hole (Weaver, Wiebe, Pate & Price) |
1990 |
"U Can't Touch This" by MC Hammer peaks at #8 |
1990 |
Nelson & Winnie Mandela visit Leidseplein, Amsterdam |
1991 |
"Fiddler on the Roof" closes at Gershwin Theater NYC after 241 perfs |
1991 |
-23] NYC Mayor Dinkins declares "Joseph Doherty Week" |
1991 |
91st US Golf Open: Payne Stewart shoots a 282 at Hazeline Natl GC Minn |
1991 |
Boris Yeltsin elected president of Russian SSR |
1991 |
Colleen Walker wins LPGA Lady Keystone Golf Open |
1991 |
Minnesota Twins win a team record 15 games in a row |
1991 |
Otis Nixon steals NL record 6 bases in 1 day |
1991 |
With 3 runs in 9th, Balt ends Twins 15 game win streak 6-5 |
1992 |
Caspar Weinberger (Sec of Def 1981-87), indicted on Iran-contra charge |
1992 |
Colo Rockies 1st minor league team's (Bend Oregon in Class A) game |
1992 |
British postage stamp celebrates 350th anniversary of the Battle of Edgehill |
1992 |
Jeff King is 5th to be thrown out twice trying to steal in an inning |
1992 |
Red Sox Mark Reardon sets record of 342 saves (vs Yanks 1-0) |
1992 |
Longest salami is 68'9 & 25 circumference, weighed 1,492lbs/5oz in Flekkefjord, Norway |
1993 |
Ken Griffey Jr slugs his 100th career home run in Seattle's |
1994 |
Martin Brodeur becomes 1st Devil to win Calder Trophy |
1995 |
"Batman Forever" opens with a record $528 million weekend |
1995 |
Marlins outfielder Andre Dawson hits his 400th NL career HR (429) |
1995 |
Salt Lake City awarded the XIX Winter Olympics in 2002 |
1996 |
1st competitive game played on turf in Holland (in third grade) |
1996 |
50th NBA Championship: Chicago Bulls beat Seat Supersonic, 4 games to 2 |
1996 |
96th US Golf Open: Steve Jones shoots a 278 wins at Oakland Hills CC |
1996 |
Liselotte Neumann wins First Bank Edina Realty LPGA Golf Classic |
1997 |
31st Music City News Country Awards: Alan Jackson & LeAnn Rimes |
1997 |
The Dairat Labguer massacre in Algeria; 50 people are killed. |
1999 |
Thabo Mbeki is elected 2nd President of a democratic South Africa |
2000 |
Israel complies with UN Security Council Resolution 425 after 22 years, which calls on Israel to completely withdraw from Lebanon. Israel withdraws from all of Lebanon, except the disputed Sheba Farms. |
2002 |
102nd US Golf Open: Tiger Woods shoots a 277 at Bethpage State Park NY |
2008 |
108th US Golf Open: Tiger Woods shoots a 283 at Torrey Pines GC CA |
2010 |
Cam Neely is named President of his former team, the Boston Bruins |
2012 |
32 people are killed by a car bomb in Baghdad |
2012 |
Coca-Cola begins business in Myanmar after 60 years |
2012 |
A collapse of a stage at a Toronto Radiohead concert kills one person |
2012 |
30 people are killed and 15 injured after a bus falls into a gorge in Osmanabad, India |
2013 |
20 people are killed by a series of car bombings across Iraq |
2013 |
Golfer, Justin Rose wins the 2013 US Open |
2013 |
113th US Golf Open: Justin Rose shoots a 281 at Merion GC PA |
2016 |
Searchers Report Finding Egyptair Wreckage |
2016 |
French police arrest 36 after clashes with England fans |
2016 |
Trump calls for surveillance of mosques despite criticism of rhetoric |
2016 |
Body of Boy Grabbed By Fla. Alligator Recovered |
2017 |
Blimp at US Open golf tourney crashes in Wisconsin |
2017 |
Warriors celebrate NBA title with parade through Oakland |
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