What happened on June 16? There are more than 305 events that were made this day in history. Here are the important historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.
Interesting Facts & Myths About June 16
June 16 is the 168th day of the year 2024. There are 198 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Sunday. This day falls under the 24th week of the year 2024.
On this day in Miami, Florida 33161 sunrise occured at 06:27 AM and sunset occured at 08:15 PM (local time).
The zodiac sign of a person born on this day is Gemini. The modern birthstone for this month is Pearl while the mystical birthstone is Moonstone.
According to the Chinese calendar, there are 227 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year (January 29, 2025).
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Historical Events For June 16
- 363Emperor Julian marches back up the Tigris and burns his fleet of supply ships. During the withdrawal Roman forces suffering several attacks from the Persians.
- 1487Battle of Stoke Field, the final engagement of the Wars of the Roses.
- 1586Mary, Queen of Scots, recognizes Philip II of Spain as her heir and successor.
- 1745British troops take Cape Breton Island, which is now part of Nova Scotia, Canada.
- 1745Sir William Pepperell captures the French Fortress of Louisbourg in Louisbourg, Nova Scotia during the War of the Austrian Succession.
- 1746War of Austrian Succession: Austria and Sardinia defeat a Franco-Spanish army at the Battle of Piacenza.
- 1755French and Indian War: the French surrender Fort Beauséjour to the British, leading to the expulsion of the Acadians.
- 1774Foundation of Harrodsburg, Kentucky.
- 1779Spain declares war on the Kingdom of Great Britain, and the Great Siege of Gibraltar begins.
- 1795First Battle of Groix otherwise known as “Cornwallis’ Retreat”.
- 1815Battle of Ligny and Battle of Quatre Bras, two days before the Battle of Waterloo.
- 1816Lord 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.
- 1836The formation of the London Working Men’s Association gives rise to the Chartist Movement.
- 1846The 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).
- 1858Abraham Lincoln delivers his House Divided speech in Springfield, Illinois.
- 1858The Battle of Morar takes place during the Indian Mutiny.
- 1871The University Tests Act allows students to enter the Universities of Oxford, Cambridge and Durham without religious tests (except for those intending to study theology).
- 1883The Victoria Hall theatre panic in Sunderland, England kills 183 children.
- 1891John Abbott becomes Canada’s third Prime Minister.
- 1897A treaty annexing the Republic of Hawaii to the United States is signed; the Republic would not be dissolved until a year later.
- 1903Roald Amundsen commences the first east-west navigation of the Northwest Passage, leaving Oslo, Norway.
- 1903The Ford Motor Company is incorporated.
- 1904Eugen Schauman assassinates Nikolai Bobrikov, Governor-General of Finland.
- 1904Irish 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”.
- 1911A 772 gram stony meteorite strikes the earth near Kilbourn, Wisconsin damaging a barn.
- 1911IBM founded as the Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company in Endicott, New York.
- 1915Foundation of the British Women’s Institute.
- 1922General election in the Irish Free State: the pro-Treaty Sinn Féin win a large majority.
- 1924The Whampoa Military Academy is founded.
- 1925The most famous Young Pioneer camp of the Soviet Union, Artek, is established.
- 1930Sovnarkom establishes decree time in the USSR.
- 1933The National Industrial Recovery Act is passed.
- 1940A Communist government is installed in Lithuania.
- 1940World War II: Marshal Henri Philippe Pétain becomes Chief of State of Vichy France (Chef de l'État Français).
- 1958Imre Nagy, Pál Maléter and other leaders of the 1956 Hungarian Uprising are executed.
- 1961Rudolf Nureyev defects from the Soviet Union.
- 1963Soviet Space Program: Vostok 6 Mission – Cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova becomes the first woman in space.
- 1967The Monterey Pop Festival begins
- 1972Red Army Faction member Ulrike Meinhof is captured by police in Langenhagen.
- 1972The largest single-site hydro-electric power project in Canada is inaugurated at Churchill Falls, Labrador.
- 1976Soweto 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.
- 1977Oracle Corporation is incorporated in Redwood Shores, California, as Software Development Laboratories (SDL) by Larry Ellison, Bob Miner and Ed Oates.
- 1989Imre Nagy, the former Hungarian Prime Minister, is reburied in Budapest.
- 1997The Dairat Labguer massacre in Algeria; 50 people are killed.
- 2000Israel 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.
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Who Were Born On June 16?
- 1139Emperor Konoe of Japan (d. 1155)
- 1332Isabella de Coucy, English princess (d. 1382)
- 1514John Cheke, English classical scholar (d. 1557)
- 1583Axel Oxenstierna, Swedish statesman (d. 1654)
- 1591Joseph Solomon Delmedigo, Crete-born Italian physician, mathematician, and music theorist (d. 1655)
- 1606Arthur Chichester, 1st Earl of Donegall, Irish aristocrat and soldier (d. 1675)
- 1612Murad IV, Ottoman Sultan (d. 1640)
- 1613John Cleveland, English poet (d. 1658)
- 1633Jean de Thévenot, French traveler and scientist (d. 1667)
- 1644Henrietta Anne Stuart, French-born Princess of Scotland, England and Ireland and Duchess of Orléans (d. 1670)
- 1713Meshech Weare, American Governor of New Hampshire (d. 1786)
- 1723Adam Smith, Scottish philosopher and economist (d. 1790)
- 1738Mary Katharine Goddard, American printer and publisher (d. 1816)
- 1754Salawat Yulayev, Bashkir poet (d. 1800)
- 1792John Linnell, English landscape painter (d. 1882)
- 1792Sir Thomas Mitchell, Australian explorer (d. 1855)
- 1801Julius Plücker, German mathematician and physicist (d. 1868)
- 1806Edward Davy, English physician, chemist and inventor (d. 1885)
- 1813Otto Jahn, German archaeologist (d. 1869)
- 1820Athanase Coquerel, French Protestant preacher (d. 1875)
- 1821Old Tom Morris, Scottish golfer (d. 1908)
- 1826Constantin von Ettingshausen, Austrian geologist and botanist (d. 1897)
- 1829Geronimo, Apache leader (d. 1909)
- 1836Wesley Merritt, American general (d. 1910)
- 1837Ernst Laas, German philosopher (d. 1885)
- 1838Cushman Davis, American politician (d. 1900)
- 1840Ernst Otto Schlick, German engineer (d. 1913)
- 1857Arthur Arz von Straußenburg, Austro-Hungarian Colonel General (d. 1935)
- 1858King Gustaf V of Sweden (d. 1950)
- 1866Germanos Karavangelis, Greek Orthodox metropolitan bishop (d. 1935)
- 1874Arthur Meighen, 9th Prime Minister of Canada (d. 1960)
- 1880Otto Eisenschiml, Austrian-born American chemist and historian (d. 1963)
- 1888Alexander Alexandrovich Friedman, Russian physicist (d. 1925)
- 1888Peter Stoner, American mathematician and astronomer (d. 1980)
- 1890Stan Laurel, British actor and comedian (d. 1965)
- 1894Norman Kerry, American actor (d. 1956)
- 1896Murray Leinster, American science-fiction and alternate history writer (d. 1976)
- 1897Elaine Hammerstein, American actress (d. 1948)
- 1897Georg Wittig, German chemist, Nobel laureate (d. 1987)
- 1902Barbara McClintock, American geneticist, Nobel laureate (d. 1992)
- 1902George Gaylord Simpson, American paleontologist (d. 1984)
- 1903Helen Traubel, American soprano (d. 1972)
- 1903Huldreich Georg Früh, Swiss composer (d. 1945)
- 1907Jack Albertson, American actor (d. 1981)
- 1909Archie Fairley Carr, American biologist (d. 1987)
- 1910Juan Velasco Alvarado, Peruvian general and President of Peru (d. 1977)
- 1912Enoch Powell, British politician (d. 1998)
- 1915John Tukey, American statistician (d. 2000)
- 1916Hank Luisetti, American basketball player (d. 2002)
- 1917Aurelio Lampredi, Italian mechanical engineer (Ferrari) (d. 1989)
- 1917Irving Penn, American photographer (d. 2009)
- 1917Katherine Graham, American publisher (d. 2001)
- 1917Phaedon Gizikis, Greek Army officer and President of Greece (d. 1999)
- 1920John Howard Griffin, American journalist (d. 1980)
- 1920José López Portillo, 31st President of Mexico (d. 2004)
- 1920Raymond U. Lemieux, Canadian organic chemist (d. 2002)
- 1923Ron Flockhart, Scottish racing driver (d. 1962)
- 1924Faith Domergue, American actor (d. 1999)
- 1927Herbert Lichtenfeld, German author and playwright (d. 2001)
- 1927Tom Graveney, English cricketer
- 1928Speedy O. Long, American politician (d. 2006)
- 1929Pauline Yates, English actress
- 1929Ramon Bieri, American actor (d. 2001)
- 1930Allan D'Arcangelo, American artist (d. 1998)
- 1930Vilmos Zsigmond, Hungarian-born American cinematographer
- 1934Dame Eileen Atkins, English actress
- 1934Elvira Vinogradova, Russian TV personality
- 1934Roger Neilson, Canadian ice hockey coach (d. 2003)
- 1934William Forsyth Sharpe, American economist, Nobel laureate
- 1935Bill Cobbs, American actor
- 1935Jim Dine, American artist
- 1937Erich Segal, American author (d. 2010)
- 1937Simeon Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, Tsar and later Prime Minister of Bulgaria
- 1938James Bolam, English actor
- 1938Joyce Carol Oates, American novelist
- 1938Torgny Lindgren, Swedish writer
- 1939Billy Crash Craddock, American country singer
- 1940Neil Goldschmidt, American Governor of Oregon
- 1941Lamont Dozier, American record company executive
- 1941Mumtaz Hamid Rao, Pakistani journalist
- 1942Eddie Levert, American singer (The O'Jays)
- 1942Giacomo Agostini, Italian motorcyclist
- 1943Joan Van Ark, American actress
- 1944Henri Richelet, French painter
- 1945Claire Alexander, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1945Lucienne Robillard, Canadian politician
- 1946Derek Sanderson, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1946Jodi Rell, American politician
- 1946Mark Ritts, American actor (d. 2009)
- 1946Rick Adelman, American basketball player and coach
- 1947-minu, Swiss columnist and writer
- 1947Tom Wyner, British-born American voice actor and writer
- 1948Ron LeFlore, American baseball player
- 1948V. Hanumantha Rao, Indian politician
- 1949Paulo César, Brazilian footballer
- 1951Charlie Dominici, American singer (Dream Theater, Dominici)
- 1951Roberto Durán, Panamanian boxer
- 1952George Papandreou, Greek politician
- 1952Gino Vannelli, Canadian singer and songwriter
- 1953Ian Mosley, British drummer (Marillion)
- 1953Valerie Mahaffey, American actress
- 1955Laurie Metcalf, American actress
- 1955Tree Rollins, American basketball player
- 1957Ian Buchanan, Scottish actor
- 1958Darrell Griffith, American basketball player
- 1958Jóhannes Helgason, Icelandic guitarist (Þeyr)
- 1958Ulrike Tauber, East German swimmer
- 1959Desirée Rogers, American public relations executive and former Social Secretary for the White House
- 1959John Franklin, American actor
- 1959The Ultimate Warrior, American professional wrestler
- 1960Peter Sterling, Australian rugby league footballer
- 1961Steve Larmer, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1962Anthony Wong Yiu Ming, Hong Kong composer and producer
- 1962Arnold Vosloo, South African actor
- 1962Femi Kuti, Nigerian afrobeat musician
- 1962Wally Joyner, American baseball player
- 1963Jim Fullington, American professional wrestler
- 1963Scott Alexander, American screenwriter
- 1966Jan Železný, Czech athlete
- 1966Phil Vischer, American voice actor and puppeteer
- 1967Charalambos Andreou, Greek-Cypriot footballer
- 1969Mark Crossley, Welsh footballer
- 1969Shami Chakrabarti, British activist
- 1970Clifton Collins Jr., American actor
- 1970Cobi Jones, American soccer player
- 1970Phil Mickelson, American golfer
- 1970Younus AlGohar, British spiritualist, author, poet, sufi and humanitarian
- 1971Chris Gomez, American baseball player
- 1971Tupac Shakur, American rapper and actor (d. 1996)
- 1972Ann Shoket, American magazine editor
- 1972Horacio Cambeiro, American author and reporter
- 1972John Cho, Korean-American actor
- 1972Simon Khan, English golfer
- 1973Nikos Machlas, Greek footballer
- 1974Paul Lee, British sculptor
- 1975Anthony Carter, American basketball player
- 1976Edwin Tenorio, Ecuadorian footballer
- 1977Craig Fitzgibbon, Australian rugby league footballer
- 1977Kerry Wood, American baseball player
- 1977Kevin Foster, American convicted murderer
- 1977Petros Papadakis, American sportscaster
- 1978Dainius Zubrus, Lithuanian ice hockey player
- 1978Daniel Brühl, German actor
- 1978Jasmine Leong, Chinese Malaysian singer
- 1978Lyndsey Marshal, British actress
- 1980Brad Gushue, Canadian curler
- 1980Brandon Armstrong, American basketball player
- 1980Daré Nibombé, Togolese footballer
- 1980Joey Yung, Hong Kong singer
- 1980Martin Stranzl, Austrian footballer
- 1980Nehir Erdoğan, Turkish actress
- 1980Phil Christophers, German-born English rugby player
- 1981Ben Kweller, American singer and songwriter
- 1981Benjamin Becker, German tennis player
- 1981Kevin Bieksa, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1981Miguel Villalta, Peruvian footballer
- 1982Chris Wingert, American footballer
- 1982Fraser Cartmell, British triathlete
- 1982Jodi Santamaria, Filipino actress
- 1982Matt Costa, American singer and songwriter
- 1982Missy Peregrym, Canadian actress
- 1983Armend Dallku, Albanian footballer
- 1984Jonathan Broxton, American baseball player
- 1984Rick Nash, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1984Steven Whittaker, Scottish footballer
- 1986Farhad Reza, Bangladeshi cricketer
- 1986Fernando Muslera, Uruguayan footballer
- 1986Robert Rothbart, Bosnian/Israeli/Serbian basketball player
- 1986Rodrigo Defendi, Brazilian footballer
- 1986Urby Emanuelson, Dutch footballer
- 1987Abby Elliott, American comedienne
- 1987Christian Tshimanga Kabeya, Belgian footballer
- 1987Diana DeGarmo, American singer
- 1987Per Ciljan Skjelbred, Norwegian footballer
- 1988Keshia Chante, Canadian singer
- 1988Leeland Mooring, American lead singer of the band Leeland
- 1988Nathan Parsons, Australian born actor
- 1989Jelena Glebova, Estonian figure skater
- 1991Joe McElderry, English singer
- 1994Aarya Ambekar, Indian Marathi singer
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Who Died On June 16?
- 1397Philip of Artois, Count of Eu, French soldier and nobleman (b. 1358)
- 1468Jean Le Fevre, Burgundian chronicler (b. c. 1395)
- 1622Alexander Seton, 1st Earl of Dunfermline, Chancellor of Scotland (b. 1555)
- 1623Christian the Younger, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg-Wolfenbüttel, German Protestant military leader (b. 1599)
- 1666Richard Fanshawe, English poet, translator and diplomat (b. 1608)
- 1671Stenka Razin, Cossack rebel leader (executed) (b. 1630)
- 1707Marie d'Orleans-Longueville, Duchess de Nemours, sovereign princess of Neuchâtel and writer (b. 1625)
- 1722John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough, English general (b. 1650)
- 1749Johann Baptista Ruffini, Italian trader (b. 1672)
- 1752Giulio Alberoni, Spanish cardinal (b. 1664)
- 1752Joseph Butler, English philosopher (b. 1692)
- 1777Jean-Baptiste-Louis Gresset, French poet and dramatist (b. 1709)
- 1778Konrad Ekhof, German actor (b. 1720)
- 1779Sir Francis Bernard, 1st Baronet, Governor of New Jersey and Massachusetts (b. 1712)
- 1792Benjamin Tupper, Continental Army officer, and pioneer to the Ohio Country (b. 1738)
- 1804Johann Adam Hiller, German composer (b. 1728)
- 1824Charles-François Lebrun, duc de Plaisance, Third Consul of France (b. 1739)
- 1849Wilhelm Martin Leberecht de Wette, German theologian (b. 1780)
- 1850William Lawson, English explorer of New South Wales, Australia (b. 1774)
- 1855John Gorrie, American physician (b. 1803)
- 1858John Snow, English epidemiologist (b. 1813)
- 1862Hidenoyama Raigorō, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 9th Yokozuna (b. 1808)
- 1866Joseph Méry French poet (b. 1798)
- 1869Charles Sturt, English explorer (b. 1795)
- 1872Norman MacLeod, Scottish clergyman (b. 1812)
- 1878Crawford Long, American physician (b. 1815)
- 1881Marie Laveau, American Voodoo practitioner (b. 1801)
- 1881Sir Josiah Mason, English pen manufacturer (b. 1795)
- 1885Wilhelm Camphausen, German painter (b. 1818)
- 1902Ernst Schröder, German mathematician (b. 1841)
- 1925Chittaranjan Das, Indian patriot and freedom fighter (b. 1870)
- 1925Emmett Hardy, American jazz cornet player (b. 1903)
- 1928Dr. Mark Keppel, American County Superintendent of Los Angeles County Schools from 1902-1928 (b. 1867)
- 1929Bramwell Booth, English 2nd General of The Salvation Army (b. 1856)
- 1930Elmer Ambrose Sperry, American co-inventor of the gyrocompass (b. 1860)
- 1930Ezra Fitch, American founder of Abercrombie & Fitch (b. 1866)
- 1939William Henry ‘Chick’Webb, American jazz drummer and big band leader (b. 1905)
- 1940DuBose Heyward, American novelist (b. 1885)
- 1944Marc Bloch, French historian (executed) (b. 1886)
- 1945Aris Velouchiotis, Greek guerrilla resistance leader (b. 1905)
- 1952Andrew Lawson, Scottish-American geologist, the first to map the entire San Andreas Fault (b. 1861)
- 1953Margaret Bondfield, English politician and feminist (b. 1873)
- 1955Ozias Leduc, Quebec painter (b. 1864)
- 1958Imre Nagy, Prime Minister of Hungary (b. 1895)
- 1959George Reeves, American actor (b. 1914)
- 1961Marcel Junod, Swiss physician (b. 1904)
- 1967Reginald Denny, English stage, film, and television actor (b. 1891)
- 1969Harold Alexander, British military commander (b. 1891)
- 1970Brian Piccolo, American football player (b. 1943)
- 1970Heino Eller, Estonian composer (b. 1887)
- 1970Sydney Chapman, British mathematician and geophysicist (b. 1888)
- 1971Lord Reith, British broadcast executive (b. 1889)
- 1977Wernher von Braun, German-born rocket scientist (b. 1912)
- 1979Ignatius Kutu Acheamphong, Ghanaian dictator (b. 1931)
- 1979Nicholas Ray, American film director (b. 1911)
- 1981Jule Gregory Charney, American meteorologist (b. 1917)
- 1982James Honeyman-Scott, English guitarist and songwriter (The Pretenders) (b. 1956)
- 1984Lew Andreas, American basketball coach (b. 1895)
- 1986Maurice Duruflé, French composer and organist (b. 1902)
- 1988Miguel Piñero, Puerto Rican playwright, actor and co-founder of the Nuyorican Poets Café (b. 1946)
- 1990Gertrude Baniszewski, American murderer of Sylvia Likens (b. 1929)
- 1990Megan Leigh, American porn star (b. 1964)
- 1993Lindsay Hassett, Australian cricketer (b. 1913)
- 1994Kristen Pfaff, American bassist (Hole) (b. 1967)
- 1996Mel Allen, American baseball announcer (b. 1913)
- 1997Dal Stivens, Australian author (b. 1911)
- 1999Screaming Lord Sutch, British musician (b. 1940)
- 2000Empress Kōjun of Japan (b. 1903)
- 2003Georg Henrik von Wright, Finnish-Swedish philosopher (b. 1916)
- 2003Pierre Bourgault, Canadian politician (b. 1934)
- 2004Thanom Kittikachorn, Prime Minister of Thailand (b. 1911)
- 2005Enrique Laguerre, Puerto Rican writer (b. 1906)
- 2006Alireza Shapour Shahbazi, Iranian archaeologist (b. 1942)
- 2006Igor Śmiałowski, Polish actor (b. 1917)
- 2007Grand Ayatollah Fazel Lankarani, Iranian cleric (b. 1931)
- 2007Mikhail Kononov, Soviet actor (b. 1940)
- 2008Mario Rigoni Stern, Italian writer, World War II veteran and Nazi concentration camp survivor (b. 1921)
- 2008Tom Compernolle, Belgian athlete (b. 1975)
- 2010Marc Bazin, Haitian politician (b. 1932)
- 2011Östen Mäkitalo, Swedish electrical engineer (b. 1938)
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