June
16
Events
June
16
363 – 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.
1487 – Battle of Stoke Field, the final engagement of the Wars
of the Roses.
1586 – Mary, Queen of Scots, recognizes Philip II of Spain as
her heir and successor.
1745 – British troops take Cape Breton Island, which is now
part of Nova Scotia, Canada.
1745 – Sir William Pepperell captures the French Fortress of
Louisbourg in Louisbourg, Nova Scotia during the War of the
Austrian Succession.
1746 – War of Austrian Succession: Austria and Sardinia defeat
a Franco-Spanish army at the Battle of Piacenza.
1755 – French and Indian War: the French surrender Fort Beauséjour
to the British, leading to the expulsion of the Acadians.
1774 – Foundation of Harrodsburg, Kentucky.
1779 – Spain declares war on the Kingdom of Great Britain, and
the Great Siege of Gibraltar begins.
1795 – First Battle of Groix otherwise known as "Cornwallis'
Retreat".
1815 – Battle of Ligny and Battle of Quatre Bras, two days before
the Battle of Waterloo.
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.
1836 – The formation of the London Working Men's Association
gives rise to the Chartist Movement.
1846 – The Papal conclave of 1846 concludes. Pope Pius IX is
elected Pope beginning the longest reign in the history of the
papacy (not counting St. Peter).
1858 – Abraham Lincoln delivers his House Divided speech in
Springfield, Illinois.
1858 – The Battle of Morar takes place during the Indian Mutiny.
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).
1883 – The Victoria Hall theatre panic in Sunderland, England
kills 183 children.
1891 – John Abbott becomes Canada's third Prime Minister.
1897 – A treaty annexing the Republic of Hawaii to the United
States is signed; the Republic would not be dissolved until
a year later.
1903 – The Ford Motor Company is incorporated.
1903 – Roald Amundsen commences the first east-west navigation
of the Northwest Passage, leaving Oslo, Norway.
1904 – Eugen Schauman assassinates Nikolai Bobrikov, Governor-General
of Finland.
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".
1911 – IBM founded as the Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company
in Endicott, New York.
1911 – A 772 gram stony meteorite strikes the earth near Kilbourn,
Wisconsin damaging a barn.
1915 – Foundation of the British Women's Institute.
1922 – General election in the Irish Free State: the pro-Treaty
Sinn Féin win a large majority.
1924 – The Whampoa Military Academy is founded.
1925 – The most famous Young Pioneer camp of the Soviet Union,
Artek, is established.
1930 – Sovnarkom establishes decree time in the USSR.
1933 – The National Industrial Recovery Act is passed.
1940 – World War II: Marshal Henri Philippe Pétain becomes Chief
of State of Vichy France (Chef de l'État Français).
1940 – A Communist government is installed in Lithuania.
1958 – Imre Nagy, Pál Maléter and other leaders of the 1956
Hungarian Uprising are executed.
1961 – Rudolf Nureyev defects from the Soviet Union.
1963 – Soviet Space Program: Vostok 6 Mission – Cosmonaut Valentina
Tereshkova becomes the first woman in space.
1967 – The Monterey Pop Festival begins
1972 – Red Army Faction member Ulrike Meinhof is captured by
police in Langenhagen.
1972 – The largest single-site hydro-electric power project
in Canada is inaugurated at Churchill Falls, Labrador.
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.
1977 – Oracle Corporation is incorporated in Redwood Shores,
California, as Software Development Laboratories (SDL) by Larry
Ellison, Bob Miner and Ed Oates.
1989 – Imre Nagy, the former Hungarian Prime Minister, is reburied
in Budapest.
1997 – The Dairat Labguer massacre in Algeria; 50 people are
killed.
2000 – Israel complies with UN Security Council Resolution 425
after 22 years of it issuance, which calls on Israel to completely
withdraw from Lebanon. Israel withdraws from all of Lebanon,
except the disputed Shebaa Farms.
Holidays
and observances
Bloomsday
(Dublin, James Joyce fans)
Christian Feast Day:
Benno
Lutgardis
Quiricus and Julietta
June 16 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
International Day of the African Child (Organisation of African
Unity)
Martyrdom of Guru Arjan Dev (Sikhism)
Sussex Day (Sussex)
Youth Day (South Africa)
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