June, 16th in History

[Spiritus Temporis]

Events

Monday 16, 2003:
The Hatfields and McCoys sign a formal truce.

Sunday 16, 2002:
Politically Incorrect is cancelled (from sponsors dropping the show) after host Bill Maher makes controversial comments on air regarding the integrity of President George W. Bush.

Saturday 16, 2001:
George W. Bush and Vladimir Putin meet in Brdo pri Kranju, Slovenia

Wednesday 16, 1999:
Thabo Mbeki elected President of South Africa.

Monday 16, 1997:
Dairat Labguer massacre in Algeria; some 50 people killed.

Sunday 16, 1996:
First round of voting in the Russian presidential election

Friday 16, 1995:
1995 - The APOD was born

Thursday 16, 1994:
A Chinese operated Northwest Airlines Tupolev TU-154 crashes 10 minutes after takeoff killing 160

Thursday 16, 1983:
Yuri Andropov becomes president of the USSR

Tuesday 16, 1981:
Ken Taylor honoured for helping six Americans escape from Iran during hostage crisis

Thursday 16, 1977:
Leonid Brezhnev becomes president of the USSR

Wednesday 16, 1976:
Apartheid: A non-violent march by 15000 students in Soweto, South Africa turns into days of rioting when police open fire on the crowd and kill 566 children.

Friday 16, 1972:
Largest single-site hydro-electric power project starts at Churchill Falls Newfoundland

Sunday 16, 1963:
Valentina Tereshkova becomes the first woman in space

Saturday 16, 1962:
1962 - Two U.S. Army officers are killed in Saigon,Vietnam.

Friday 16, 1961:
Rudolf Nureyev defects at Le Bourget airport in Paris

Thursday 16, 1960:
Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho opens in New York

Saturday 16, 1956:
Ted Hughes marries Sylvia Plath

Thursday 16, 1955:
Pope Pius XII excommunicates Juan Perón

Wednesday 16, 1948:
The storming of the cockpit of the Miss Macao passenger seaplane, operated by the Cathay Pacific airline, marks the first skyjacking of a commercial plane.

Sunday 16, 1940:
A Communist government is installed in Lithuania

Tuesday 16, 1925:
The most famous Young Pioneer camp of the USSR, Artek established.

Monday 16, 1924:
Whampoa Military Academy is founded

Friday 16, 1922:
General election in Irish Free State: large majority to pro-Treaty Sinn Féin

Wednesday 16, 1915:
Foundation of the British Women's Institute

Friday 16, 1911:
A 772 gram stony meteorite struck earth near Kilbourn, Columbia County, Wisconsin damaging a barn.

Thursday 16, 1904:
Leopold Bloom walks around Dublin. (see Ulysses) Known as Bloomsday.

Tuesday 16, 1903:
Roald Amundsen commences first east-west navigation of the Northwest Passage by leaving Oslo, Norway.

Monday 16, 1902:
Australia: Female British subjects (with the glaring exception of Asians, Aborigines and Africans) won the vote with the Uniform Franchise Act.

Tuesday 16, 1891:
John Abbott becomes Canada's third prime minister.

Monday 16, 1884:
The first roller coaster in the United States begins operation at Coney Island, New York

Friday 16, 1871:
University Tests Act allows students to enter the Universities of Oxford, Cambridge and Durham without religious tests, except for courses in theology.

Wednesday 16, 1858:
Battle of Morar, during the Indian Mutiny.

Tuesday 16, 1846:
The Papal conclave of 1846 concludes. Pope Pius IX is elected pope, beginning the longest reign in the history of the post-apostolic papacy.

Thursday 16, 1836:
Formation of the London Working Men's Association begins the Chartist Movement

Friday 16, 1815:
Battle of Ligny and Battle of Quatre Bras, two days before Waterloo.

Wednesday 16, 1779:
Spain declares war on Britain and the siege of Gibraltar begins

Thursday 16, 1774:
Formation of Harrodsburg, Kentucky.

Monday 16, 1755:
French and Indian War: French surrender Fort Beauséjour to the British, leading to the expulsion of the Acadians

Thursday 16, 1746:
War of Austrian Succession: Austria and Sardinia defeat a Franco-Spanish army at the Battle of Piacenza

Wednesday 16, 1745:
Sir William Pepperell captures the French Fortress Louisbourg in Louisbourg, Nova Scotia during the War of the Austrian Succession.

Monday 16, 1586:
Mary Queen of Scots recognizes Philip II of Spain as her heir

Thursday 16, 1487:
Battle of Stoke Field, the last dying breath of the Wars of the Roses

Source: http://www.spiritus-temporis.com/16-june/on-this-day.html


People born on June 16

1988:
Keshia Chanté, Canadian singer (b: June 16, 1988) (Biography of Keshia Chanté)

1980:
Joey Yung, Hong Kong singer (b: June 16, 1980) (Biography of Joey Yung)
Nehir Erdo?an, Turkish actress (b: June 16, 1980) (Biography of Nehir Erdo?an)

1977:
Kerry Wood, baseball player (b: June 16, 1977) (Biography of Kerry Wood (baseball player))

1972:
Hank von Helvete, Norwegian musician (b: June 16, 1972) (Biography of Hank von Helvete)

1971:
Tupac Shakur, American rapper and actor (b: June 16, 1971 ; d: September 13, 1996) (Biography of Tupac Shakur)
Derek R. Audette, Canadian artist and poet (b: June 16, 1971) (Biography of Derek R. Audette)

1970:
Phil Mickelson, American golfer (b: June 16, 1970) (Biography of Phil Mickelson)
James Shaffer, American guitarist (Ko?n) (b: June 16, 1970) (Biography of James Shaffer)

1967:
John Franklin, American actor (b: June 16, 1967) (Biography of John Franklin (actor))

1966:
Jan Zelezný, Czech athlete (b: June 16, 1966) (Biography of Jan Zelezný)

1955:
Laurie Metcalf, American actress (b: June 16, 1955) (Biography of Laurie Metcalf)

1952:
George Papandreou, junior, Greek politician (b: June 16, 1952) (Biography of George Papandreou, junior)
Gino Vannelli, Canadian singer and songwriter (b: June 16, 1952) (Biography of Gino Vannelli)

1951:
Roberto Durán, Panamanian boxer (b: June 16, 1951) (Biography of Roberto Durán)

1947:
-minu, Swiss columnist and writer (b: June 16, 1947) (Biography of -minu)

1942:
Giacomo Agostini, Italian motorcyclist (b: June 16, 1942) (Biography of Giacomo Agostini)

1941:
Lamont Dozier, American record company executive (b: June 16, 1941) (Biography of Lamont Dozier)

1940:
Neil Goldschmidt, Governor of Oregon (b: June 16, 1940) (Biography of Neil Goldschmidt)

1938:
James Bolam, English actor (b: June 16, 1938) (Biography of James Bolam)
Joyce Carol Oates, American novelist (b: June 16, 1938) (Biography of Joyce Carol Oates)

1937:
Erich Segal, American author (b: June 16, 1937) (Biography of Erich Segal)

1935:
Jim Dine, American artist (b: June 16, 1935) (Biography of Jim Dine)

1934:
Dame Eileen Atkins, English actress (b: June 16, 1934) (Biography of Eileen Atkins)

1930:
Vilmos Zsigmond, Hungarian cinematographer (b: June 16, 1930) (Biography of Vilmos Zsigmond)

1929:
Ramon Bieri, American actor (b: June 16, 1929 ; d: May 27, 2001) (Biography of Ramon Bieri)

1927:
Tom Graveney, English cricketer (b: June 16, 1927) (Biography of Tom Graveney)
Herbert Lichtenfeld, German author and playwright (b: June 16, 1927) (Biography of Herbert Lichtenfeld)

1920:
José López Portillo, President of Mexico (b: June 16, 1920 ; d: February 17, 2004) (Biography of José López Portillo)
John Howard Griffin, American writer (b: June 16, 1920 ; d: September 9, 1980) (Biography of John Howard Griffin)

1917:
Katharine Graham, American publisher (b: June 16, 1917 ; d: July 17, 2001) (Biography of Katharine Graham)
Irving Penn, American photographer (b: June 16, 1917) (Biography of Irving Penn)

1916:
Hank Luisetti, baseball player (b: June 16, 1916) (Biography of Hank Luisetti)

1912:
Enoch Powell, British politician (b: June 16, 1912) (Biography of Enoch Powell)

1910:
Juan Velasco, President of Peru (b: June 16, 1910) (Biography of Juan Velasco)

1909:
Archie Fairley Carr, biologist (b: June 16, 1909) (Biography of Archie Fairley Carr)

1907:
Jack Albertson, American actor (b: June 16, 1907 ; d: November 25, 1981) (Biography of Jack Albertson)

1903:
Helen Traubel, American soprano (b: June 16, 1903 ; d: July 28, 1972) (Biography of Helen Traubel)

1902:
Barbara McClintock, American geneticist (b: June 16, 1902 ; d: September 2, 1992) (Biography of Barbara McClintock)
George Gaylord Simpson, American paleontologist (b: June 16, 1902) (Biography of George Gaylord Simpson)

1897:
Georg Wittig, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b: June 16, 1897) (Biography of Georg Wittig)

1896:
Murray Leinster, American author (b: June 16, 1896) (Biography of Murray Leinster)

1890:
Stan Laurel, British-born actor and comedian (b: June 16, 1890 ; d: February 23, 1965) (Biography of Stan Laurel)

1880:
Otto Eisenschiml, Austrian-American chemist and historian (b: June 16, 1880) (Biography of Otto Eisenschiml)

1874:
Arthur Meighen, ninth Prime Minister of Canada (b: June 16, 1874 ; d: August 5, 1960) (Biography of Arthur Meighen)

1858:
King Gustav V of Sweden (b: June 16, 1858 ; d: October 29, 1950) (Biography of Gustav V of Sweden)

1840:
Ernst Otto Schlick, German engineer (b: June 16, 1840) (Biography of Ernst Otto Schlick)

1838:
Cushman Davis, American politician (b: June 16, 1838) (Biography of Cushman Davis)

1837:
Ernst Laas, German philosopher (b: June 16, 1837) (Biography of Ernst Laas)

1836:
Wesley Merritt, American soldier (b: June 16, 1836) (Biography of Wesley Merritt)

1829:
Geronimo, Apache leader (b: June 16, 1829 ; d: February 17, 1909) (Biography of Geronimo)

1826:
Constantin von Ettingshausen, Austrian geologist and botanist (b: June 16, 1826) (Biography of Constantin von Ettingshausen)

1820:
Athanase Coquerel, French protestant preacher (b: June 16, 1820) (Biography of Athanase Coquerel)

1813:
Otto Jahn, German archaeologist (b: June 16, 1813) (Biography of Otto Jahn)

1806:
Edward Davy, English physician, chemist, and inventor (b: June 16, 1806 ; d: January 26, 1885) (Biography of Edward Davy)

1801:
Julius Plücker, German mathematician and physicist (b: June 16, 1801 ; d: May 22, 1868) (Biography of Julius Plücker)

1792:
John Linnell, English artist (b: June 16, 1792) (Biography of John Linnell (1792))
Sir Thomas Mitchell, Australian explorer (b: June 16, 1792) (Biography of Thomas Mitchell)

1738:
Mary Katharine Goddard, American printer and publisher (b: June 16, 1738) (Biography of Mary Katharine Goddard)

1644:
Henrietta Anne Stuart, Princess of Scotland, England and Ireland and Duchess of Orléans (b: June 16, 1644 ; d: June 30, 1670) (Biography of Henrietta Anne Stuart)

1633:
Jean de Thévenot, French traveler and scientist (b: June 16, 1633 ; d: November 28, 1667) (Biography of Jean de Thévenot)

1613:
John Cleveland, English poet (b: June 16, 1613 ; d: April 29, 1658) (Biography of John Cleveland)

1612:
Murad IV, Ottoman Sultan (b: June 16, 1612 ; d: February 9, 1640) (Biography of Murad IV)

1606:
Arthur Chichester, 1st Earl of Donegall, Irish soldier (b: June 16, 1606 ; d: March 18, 1675) (Biography of Arthur Chichester, 1st Earl of Donegall)

1591:
Joseph Solomon Delmedigo, Italian physician, mathematician, and music theorist (b: June 16, 1591 ; d: October 16, 1655) (Biography of Joseph Solomon Delmedigo)

1583:
Axel Oxenstierna, Swedish statesman (b: June 16, 1583 ; d: August 28, 1654) (Biography of Axel Oxenstierna)

1514:
John Cheke, English classical scholar (b: June 16, 1514 ; d: September 13, 1557) (Biography of John Cheke)

1313:
Giovanni Boccaccio, Italian writer (b: June 16, 1313 ; d: December 21, 1375) (Biography of Giovanni Boccaccio)

Source: http://www.spiritus-temporis.com/16-june/births.html