Historical Events on June 16

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• 632 Origin of Persian [Yezdegird] Era
• 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 Virginia becomes an English crown colony following the bankruptcy of the London Company

• 1745 British fleet occupies Cape Breton on St Lawrence River
• 1746 Battle at Piacenza: Austria & Sardinia beat Spanish and 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, starting the siege of Gibraltar
• 1784 Holland forbids the wearing of orange clothes
• 1794 1st stone laid at biggest Dutch grain windmill De Walvisch in Schiedam

• 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

• 1861 Battle of Vienna, Virginia and Secessionville, South Carolina (James Island)
• 1864 Battle of Lynchburg, Virginia
• 1864 Skirmish at Golgotha, Georgia
• 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 US President Ullyses 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 and 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)

• 1893 RW Rueckheim invents Cracker Jack
• 1894 US National Championship Women's Tennis, Philadelphia CC: Helen Hellwig beats defending champion Aline Terry 7-5, 3-6, 6-0, 3-6, 6-3


• 1896 Temperature hits 127°F at Fort Mojave, California
• 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
• 1902 "The Wizard of Oz" musical first opens in Chicago, Illinois
• 1903 1st Highlander (Yankee) shut-out victory 1-0 over White Sox

• 1903 Pepsi Cola company forms

• 1903 Reichstag elections with gains for the Social Democratic Party of Germany

• 1904 Eugen Schauman assassinates Nikolai Bobrikov, Governor-General of Finland

• 1909 1st US airplane sold commercially, by Glenn Curtiss for $5,000

• 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
• 1922 Irish republicans are beaten in a national election; the vote is in favor of the Treaty of London, which leaves the Irish Free State as a dominion within the British Commonwealth
• 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
• 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 Sutcliffe and 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

• 1936 Dutch queen Wilhelmina opens the Waal bridge
• 1936 Pope Pius XI receives Anton Mussert (Dutch Nazi collaborator)
• 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 Washington, D.C.
• 1943 Race riot in Beaumont Texas (2 die)

• 1944 Iceland adopts constitution

• 1944 US bombs Kyushu Japan
• 1945 70th 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

• 1947 1st network news-Dumont's "News from Washington"
• 1947 Pravda denounces Marshall Plan


• 1949 Gas turbine-electric locomotive demonstrated at Erie, Pennsylvania
• 1951 US Open Men's Golf, Oakland Hills CC: Ben Hogan wins his second consecutive US Open title, 2 strokes ahead of runner-up Clayton Heafner.
• 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

• 1956 US Open Men's Golf, Oak Hill CC: Cary Middlecoff wins his second Open title, 1 stroke ahead of runners-up Julius Boros and Ben Hogan
• 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 Washington Senators 8-6
• 1958 "Flip Top Box" by Dicky Doo & The Don'ts hits #46
• 1958 Government troops land on North-Celebes Indonesia
• 1959 South African Apartheid government efforts to remove Black people from Cato Manor close to the Durban city center to newly established black township Kwa Mashu, on outskirts met with violent resistance

• 1961 Dave Garroway is fired as Today Show host
• 1961 Discoverer 25 launched
• 1961 Soviet ballet dancer Rudolf Nureyev defects to West at Le Bourget Airport in Paris
• 1962 2 US army officers killed in Saigon

• 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 US Open Golf, Oak Hill CC: Lee Trevino wins his first major title by 4 shots from Jack Nicklaus; first to play sub-70 golf in Open history
• 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
• 1974 US Open Men's Golf, Winged Foot GC: Hale Irwin's score of 287 (+7) is good enough for the first of his 3 Open titles, 2 strokes ahead of runner-up Forrest Fezler

• 1975 Bucks trade Kareem Abdul-Jabber and 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 Ron Guidry's 1st complete game, 7-0 over KC Royals

• 1978 Cincinnati Red Tom Seaver no-hits St Louis Cards, 4-0

• 1979 "Logical Song" by Supertramp peaks at #6

• 1979 Muslim Brotherhood kills 62 sheiks in Aleppo Syria

• 1980 US Supreme Court rules new forms of life created in labs could be patents
• 1982 Britain requests Argentina to 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 Ringo Starr releases "Old Wave" album in West Germany

• 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 US Open Men's Golf, Oakland Hills CC: 1978 champion Andy North wins by 1 stroke ahead of runners-up Dave Barr, T C Chen and Denis Watson
• 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 New York City subway gunman Bernhard Getz 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" directed by Ivan Reitman, starring Bill Murry and Dan Aykroyd premieres
• 1989 Funeral for Imre Nagy, leader of Hungarian uprising in 1956
• 1989 Only 17 holes-in-one 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 NHL Draft: Cornwall Royals (OHL) right wing Owen Nolan first pick by Quebec Nordiques
• 1991 "Fiddler on the Roof" closes at Gershwin Theater NYC after 241 performances
• 1991 -23] NYC Mayor Dinkins declares "Joseph Doherty Week"
• 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 Colorado 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

• 1995 Salt Lake City awarded the XIX Winter Olympics in 2002


• 1996 50th NBA Championship: Chicago Bulls beat Seat Supersonic, 4 games to 2
• 1996 US Open Men's Golf, Oakland Hills GC: Steve Jones wins his lone major title, 1 stroke ahead of runners-up Tom Lehman and Davis Love III
• 1997 31st Music City News Country Awards: Alan Jackson & LeAnn Rimes
• 1997 The Dairat Labguer massacre in Algeria; 50 people are killed
• 1998 Stanley Cup Final, MCI Center, Washington D.C.: Detroit Red Wings go back-to-back, defeating debutant finalists Washington Capitals, 4-1 for a 4-0 series sweep
• 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 US Open Men's Golf, Bethpage State Park: Tiger Woods wins his second Open title, 3 shots ahead of runner-up Phil Mickelson
• 2008 US Open Men's Golf, Torrey Pines GC: Tiger Woods wins his 3rd US Open and 14th major title, beating Rocco Mediate on the 1st hole of sudden-death, following a Monday 18-hole playoff

• 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 US Open Men's Golf, Merion GC: Englishman Justin Rose wins his first major title, 2 strokes ahead of runners-up Jason Day and Phil Mickelson
• 2013 "Despicable Me 2" directed by Pierre Coffin and Chris Renaud with voices by Steve Carrel and Kristen Wiig premieres at the Champs-Elysées Film Festival
• 2015 69th NBA Championship: Golden State Warriors beat Cleveland Cavaliers, 4 games to 2
• 2016 British MP (L) Jo Cox is shot and killed outside her constituency surgery in Birstall, West Yorkshire

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