June 16 facts for kids

2023 Calendar

June 16 is the 167th day of the year (168th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 198 days remaining until the end of the year.

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Events

Up to 1900

363 - Emperor Julian marches up the Tigris and burns his fleet of supply ships. During the withdrawal, Roman forces suffer several attacks from the Persians.
632 - Yazdegerd III becomes Shah of Persia, as the last ruler of the Sassanid Dynasty.
1487 – Battle of Stoke Field, the end of the Wars of the Roses.
1494 - A tropical storm strikes the island of Hispaniola. It is believed to have been the first Caribbean hurricane to have been observed by Europeans.
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 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: French surrender Fort Beauséjour to the British, leading to the expulsion of the Acadians
1774 – Formation of Harrodsburg, Kentucky.
1779 - Spain declares war on the United Kingdom and the Siege of Gibraltar begins.
1815 – Battle of Ligny and Battle of Quatre Bras, two days before Waterloo.
1836 – Formation of the London Working Men's Association begins 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 post-apostolic papacy.
1858 – Abraham Lincoln's House Divided speech in Springfield, Illinois
1858 – The Battle of Morar takes place during the Indian Mutiny.
1871 – University Tests Act allows students to enter the Universities of Oxford, Cambridge and Durham without religious tests, except for courses in theology.
1883 - The Victoria Hall theatre panic in Sunderland, North East England, kills 183 children.
1884 – The first roller coaster in the United States begins operation at Coney Island, New York
1891 – John Abbott becomes Canada's third prime minister.
1896 - British passenger steamer Drummond Castle strikes a reef off the French island of Ouessant in deep fog, killing 243 out of the 246 people on board.
1897 - A treaty annexing the Republic of Hawaii to the US is signed. It enters into effect the following year.

1901 – 1950

1902 – Australia: Female British subjects (with the glaring exception of Asians, Aborigines and Africans) won the vote with the Uniform Franchise Act.
1903 – Ford Motor Company incorporates.
1903 – Roald Amundsen commences first east-west navigation of the Northwest Passage by leaving Oslo, Norway.
1904 – Eugen Schauman assassinates Nikolai Bobrikov, Governor-General of Finland.
1904 – James Joyce uses this day as the setting for his novel Ulysses, a day in the life of Leopold Bloom. Known as Bloomsday.
1911 – A 772 gram stony meteorite struck Earth near Kilbourn, Wisconsin, damaging a barn.
1911 – IBM is founded.
1915 – Foundation of the British Women's Institute
1922 – General election in Irish Free State: large majority to pro-treaty Sinn Féin
1924 – Whampoa Military Academy is founded
1925 – Artek, the most famous Young Pioneer camp of the USSR, established.
1940 – World War II: Marshal Henri Philippe Pétain becomes Premier of Vichy France
1940 – A Communist government is installed in Lithuania.
1947 - The Saar Mark is introduced as a currency in Saarland.
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.

1951 – 2000

1954 - The 1954 FIFA World Cup in Switzerland starts.
1955 – Pope Pius XII excommunicates Juan Perón.
1956 – Ted Hughes marries Sylvia Plath.
1958 - Imre Nagy, Pal Maleter and other leaders of the 1956 Hungarian Uprising are executed.
1960 – Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho opens in New York.
1961 – Rudolf Nureyev defects at Le Bourget airport in Paris.
1962 – Two U.S. Army officers are killed in Saigon, Vietnam.
1963 – Valentina Tereshkova becomes the first woman in space.
1966 - The ship Texaco Massachusetts, loaded with naphtha, collides with British tanker Alva Cape outside Manhattan, starting a massive fire, killing 33 people.
1972 – Burglars are caught breaking into the United States Democratic Party headquarters in the Watergate Hotel in the night on June 17.
1972 – Red Army Faction member Ulrike Meinhof is captured by police in Langenhagen.
1972 – Opening of the New York Jazz Museum.
1972 – Largest single-site hydro-electric power project starts at Churchill Falls Newfoundland.
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.
1977 – Leonid Brezhnev becomes president of the Soviet Union
1981 – Ken Taylor honoured for helping six Americans escape from Iran during hostage crisis
1983 – Yuri Andropov becomes president of the Soviet Union.
1984 - Cirque du Soleil is founded in Montreal.
1989 - Imre Nagy is reburied in Budapest.
1994 – A Chinese operated Northwest Airlines Tupolev TU-154 crashes 10 minutes after takeoff killing 160
1995 – The Astronomy Picture of the Day begins
1996 – First round of voting in the Russian presidential election
1997 – Dairat Labguer massacre in Algeria; some 50 people killed.
1999 – Thabo Mbeki elected President of South Africa.

From 2001

2001 – George W. Bush and Vladimir Putin meet in Brdo pri Kranju, Slovenia
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.
2003 – The Hatfields and McCoys sign a formal truce.
2003 - The Church of All Saints is consecrated in Yekaterinburg, on the site of the Ipatiev House, where Tsar Nicholas II of Russia and his family were executed in 1918.
2010 - Bhutan bans tobacco.
2012 - Liu Yang becomes China's first female astronaut.
2012 - Aung San Suu Kyi accepts the Nobel Peace Prize in person, having won it in 1991 while she was under house arrest.
2014 - A terrorist attack in Kenya kills 48 people.
2014 - It is announced that Michael Schumacher is no longer in a coma following his skiing accident on December 29, 2013. He is moved from a hospital in Grenoble, France to Switzerland.
2015 - Donald Trump announces his intention to run for US President in 2016.
2016 - British Member of Parliament Jo Cox dies after being attacked in her constituency.

Births

Up to 1800

1139 - Emperor Konoe of Japan (d. 1155)
1313 – Giovanni Boccaccio, Italian writer (d. 1375)
1332 - Isabella de Coucy, daughter of Edward III of England (d. 1382)
1514 – John Cheke, English classical scholar (d. 1557)
1583 – Axel Oxenstierna, Swedish statesman (d. 1654)
1591 – Joseph Solomon Delmedigo, Italian physician, mathematician, and music theorist (d. 1655)
1606 – Arthur Chichester, 1st Earl of Donegall, Irish soldier (d. 1675)
1612 – Murad IV, Ottoman Sultan (d. 1640)
1613 – John Cleveland, English poet (d. 1658)
1633 – Jean de Thévenot, French traveler and scientist (d. 1667)
1644 – Henrietta Anne Stuart, Princess of Scotland, England and Ireland and Duchess of Orléans (d. 1670)
1713 - Meshech Weare, Governor of New Hampshire (d. 1786)
1723 – Adam Smith, Scottish philosopher (d. 1790)
1738 – Mary Katharine Goddard, American printer and publisher (d. 1816)
1752 - Salawat Yulayev, Russian Bashkir national hero (d. 1800)
1792 – John Linnell, English artist (d. 1882)
1792 – Sir Thomas Mitchell, Australian explorer (d. 1855)
1793 - Diego Portales, Chilean politician (d. 1837)

1801 – 1900

1801 – Julius Plücker, German mathematician and physicist (d. 1868)
1806 – Edward Davy, English physician, chemist, and inventor (d. 1885)
1813 – Otto Jahn, German archaeologist (d. 1869)
1820 – Athanase Coquerel, French Protestant preacher (d. 1875)
1821 - Old Tom Morris, Scottish golfer (d. 1908)
1826 – Constantin von Ettingshausen, Austrian geologist and botanist (d. 1897)
1829 – Geronimo, Apache leader (d. 1909)
1836 – Wesley Merritt, American soldier (d. 1910)
1837 – Ernst Laas, German philosopher (d. 1885)
1838 – Cushman Davis, American politician (d. 1900)
1838 - Frederic Archer, British composer, conductor and organist (d. 1901)
1840 – Ernst Otto Schlick, German engineer (d. 1913)
1851 - Peter Adler Alberti, Danish politician and swindler (d. 1932)
1851 - Georg Jellinek, German public lawyer (d. 1911)
1858 – King Gustav V of Sweden (d. 1950)
1858 - John Peter Russell, Australian painter (d. 1930)
1862 - Olaf Frydenlund, Norwegian rifle shooter (d. 1947)
1863 - Paul Vidal, French composer (d. 1931)
1874 – Arthur Meighen, ninth Prime Minister of Canada (d. 1960)
1880 – Otto Eisenschiml, Austrian-American chemist and historian (d. 1963)
1880 - Alice Bailey, British author (d. 1949)
1881 - Natalia Goncharova, Russian painter (d. 1962)
1888 - Alexander Friedmann, Russian physicist and mathematician (d. 1925)
1888 - Peter Stoner, American mathematician and astronomer (d. 1980)
1890 – Stan Laurel, British-born actor and comedian (d. 1965)
1894 - Norman Kerry, American actor (d. 1956)
1896 – Murray Leinster, American writer (d. 1976)
1897 - Elaine Hammerstein, American actress (d. 1948)
1897 – Georg Wittig, German chemist, Nobel Prize winner (d. 1987)

1901 – 1925

1901 - Henri Lefebvre, French sociologist and philosopher (d. 1991)
1902 – Barbara McClintock, American geneticist (d. 1992)
1902 – George Gaylord Simpson, American paleontologist (d. 1984)
1903 – Helen Traubel, American soprano (d. 1972)
1907 – Jack Albertson, American actor (d. 1981)
1908 - Sarit Thanarat, Prime Minister of Thailand (d. 1963)
1909 – Archie Fairley Carr, biologist (d. 1987)
1910 – Juan Velasco, President of Peru (d. 1977)
1912 – Enoch Powell, British politician (d. 1998)
1915 – Mariano Rumor, Prime Minister of Italy (d. 1990)
1916 – Hank Luisetti, American baseball player (d. 2002)
1917 – Katharine Graham, American publisher (d. 2001)
1917 – Irving Penn, American photographer (d. 2009)
1917 – Phaedon Gizikis, Greek army officer and President (d. 1999)
1920 – José López Portillo, President of Mexico (d. 2004)
1920 – John Howard Griffin, American writer (d. 1980)
1920 - Hemanta Kumar Mukhopadhyay, Bengali singer, composer and producer (d. 1989)
1924 - Faith Domergue, American actor (d. 1999)

1926 – 1950

1926 - Efrain Rios Montt, 26th President of Guatemala
1927 – Tom Graveney, English cricketer (d. 2015)
1927 – Herbert Lichtenfeld, German writer and playwright (d. 2001)
1927 - Ariano Suassuna, Brazilian playwright and author (d. 2014)
1928 - Annie Cordy, Belgian singer and actress
1929 – Ramon Bieri, American actor (d. 2001)
1929 - Pauline Yates, English actress (d. 2015)
1930 – Vilmos Zsigmond, Hungarian-American cinematographer (d. 2016)
1934 – Dame Eileen Atkins, English actress
1934 - Jane Henson, American puppeteer (d. 2013)
1934 – William Forsyth Sharpe, American economist
1935 – Jim Dine, American artist
1935 - James Bolam, English actor
1936 - Lincoln Almond, former Governor of Rhode Island
1936 - Ann Carter, American actress (d. 2014)
1936 - Anthony Olubunmi Okogie, Nigerian cardinal
1937 – Erich Segal, American writer (d. 2010)
1937 – Simeon Saxe-Coburg Gotha, Bulgarian royal and Prime Minister
1938 – Joyce Carol Oates, American novelist
1940 – Neil Goldschmidt, former Governor of Oregon
1941 – Lamont Dozier, American record company executive
1942 – Giacomo Agostini, Italian motorcyclist
1942 - John Rostill, British musician (d. 1973)
1943 - Joan Van Ark, American actress
1946 – Rick Adelman, American basketball player and coach
1946 - Jodi Rell, 87th Governor of Connecticut
1946 - Derek Sanderson, Canadian ice hockey player
1947 - Willy Mutunga, Chief Justice of Kenya
1947 - Günther Kaufmann, German actor (d. 2012)
1948 - Leopoldo Maria Panero, Spanish poet (d. 2014)
1950 - Mithun Chakraborty, Indian actor
1950 - Klaus Lage, German musician

1951 – 1975

1951 – Roberto Durán, Panamanian boxer
1952 – George Papandreou, former Prime Minister of Greece
1952 – Gino Vannelli, Canadian singer and songwriter
1955 – Laurie Metcalf, American actress
1955 - Patrizio Sala, Italian footballer
1957 - Ian Buchanan, Scottish-American actor
1958 - Darrell Griffith, American basketball player
1958 - Johannes Helgason, Icelandic guitarist and pilot
1959 - The Ultimate Warrior, American professional wrestler (d. 2014)
1962 - Femi Kuti, Nigerian singer-songwriter and musician
1966 – Jan Zelezný, Czech athlete
1967 - Jürgen Klopp, German footballer and coach
1967 – John Franklin, American actor
1969 - Shami Chakrabarti, British academic and activist
1970 – Phil Mickelson, American golfer
1970 – James Shaffer, American guitarist (KoЯn)
1970 – Cobi Jones, American soccer player
1970 - Clifton Collins, Jr., American actor
1971 – Tupac Shakur, American rapper and actor (d. 1996)
1971 – Derek R. Audette, Canadian artist and poet
1972 – Hank von Helvete, Norwegian musician
1973 - Federica Mogherini, Italian politician, European Union foreign policy chief

From 1976

1976 – Edwin Tenorio, Ecuadorean footballer
1976 - Cian Ciaran, Welsh musician
1977 – Kerry Wood, American baseball player
1978 – Daniel Brühl, Spanish-German actor
1978 - Dainius Zubrus, Lithuanian ice hockey player
1980 - Brandon Armstrong, American basketball player
1980 – Joey Yung, Hong Kong singer
1980 – Martin Stranzl, Austrian footballer
1980 – Nehir Erdoğan, Turkish actress
1980 - Sibel Kekilli, German actress
1981 – Laron Kevin Mathieu, American poet and world traveler
1981 - Benjamin Becker, German tennis player
1982 - Albert Rocas, Spanish handball player
1983 – Armend Dallku, Albanian footballer
1984 – Steven Whittaker, Scottish footballer
1986 – Fernando Muslera, Uruguayan footballer
1987 - Per Ciljan Skjelbred, Norwegian footballer
1987 – Abby Elliott, American actress and comedienne
1988 – Keshia Chanté, Canadian singer
1989 - Jelena Glabova, Estonian figure skater
1991 – Joe McElderry, English singer
1994 - Caitlyn Taylor Love, American actress and singer

Deaths

Up to 1900

AD 1216 – Pope Innocent III
1397 – Philip of Artois, Count of Eu, French soldier (b. 1358)
1464 – Roger van der Weyden, Flemish painter (b. 1399)
1468 – Jean Le Fevre, Burgundian chronicler (b. ca. 1395)
1622 – Alexander Seton, 1st Earl of Dunfermline, Chancellor of Scotland (b. 1555)
1623 – Christian, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg-Wolfenbüttel, German Protestant military leader (b. 1599)
1666 – Richard Fanshawe, English poet, translator, and diplomat (b. 1608)
1671 – Stenka Razin, Cossack rebel leader (executed)
1707 – Marie d'Orléans-Longueville, Duchess de Nemours, sovereign princess of Neuchâtel and writer (b. 1625)
1722 – John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough, English general (b. 1650)
1749 – Johann Baptista Ruffini, Italian trader (b. 1672)
1752 – Giulio Alberoni, Spanish cardinal (b. 1664)
1752 – Joseph Butler, English philosopher (b. 1692)
1777 – Jean-Baptiste-Louis Gresset, French poet and dramatist (b. 1709)
1778 – Konrad Ekhof, German actor (b. 1720)
1779 – Sir Francis Bernard, Governor of New Jersey and Massachusetts (b. 1712)
1792 - Benjamin Tupper, American general (b. 1738)
1804 – Johann Hiller, German composer (b. 1728)
1817 – Alexander J. Dallas, American statesman and financier (b. 1759)
1824 - Charles-François Lebrun, duc de Plaisance, French statesman (b. 1839)
1849 – Wilhelm Martin Leberecht de Wette, German theologian (b. 1780)
1850 - William Lawson, explorer of Australia (b. 1774)
1855 – John Gorrie, American physician (b. 1803)
1858 – John Snow, English obstetrician (b. 1813)
1862 - Hidenoyama Raigoro, Japanese sumo wrestler (b. 1808)
1866 – Joseph Méry French poet (b. 1798)
1869 – Charles Sturt, English explorer (b. 1795)
1872 – Norman MacLeod, Scottish clergyman (b. 1812)
1878 – Crawford Long, American physician (b. 1815)
1881 – Sir Josiah Mason, English manufacturer (b. 1795)
1885 – Wilhelm Camphausen, German painter (b. 1818)
1894 – William Calder Marshall, Scottish sculptor (b. 1813)

1901 – 2000

1902 - Ernst Schröder, German mathematician (b. 1841)
1925 – Chittaranjan Das, Indian patriot and freedom fighter (b. 1870)
1925 – Emmett Hardy, American musician (b. 1903)
1929 - Bramwell Booth, 2nd General of the Salvation Army (b. 1871)
1930 – Elmer Ambrose Sperry, American inventor (b. 1860)
1930 – Ezra Fitch, American founder of the Abercrombie & Fitch clothing retailer (b. 1865)
1939 - Chick Webb, American drummer and bandleader (b. 1905)
1940 – DuBose Heyward, American writer (b. 1885)
1944 – Marc Bloch, French historian (executed) (b. 1886)
1944 - George Stinney, African American wrongly executed for murder (b. 1929)
1952 – Andrew Lawson, Scottish-American geologist (b. 1861)
1953 – Margaret Bondfield, English politician and feminist (b. 1873)
1958 – Imre Nagy, Prime Minister of Hungary (b. 1896)
1958 - Pal Maleter, Hungarian revolution leader (b. 1917)
1959 – George Reeves, American actor (b. 1914)
1969 – Harold Alexander, British military commander (b. 1891)
1970 – Heino Eller, Estonian composer (b. 1887)
1970 – Brian Piccolo, American football player (b. 1943)
1971 – Lord Reith, British broadcast executive (b. 1889)
1973 - Louise Latimer, American actress (b. 1913)
1976 – Hector Pieterson, South African schoolboy and symbol of anti-Apartheid movement (b. 1963) (shot)
1977 – Wernher von Braun, German-born rocket scientist (b. 1912)
1979 – Nicholas Ray, American movie director (b. 1911)
1979 - Ignatius KutuAcheampong, Ghanaian leader (b. 1931)
1981 – Jule Gregory Charney, meteorologist (b. 1917)
1982 - James Honeyman-Scott, British musician (b. 1956)
1986 – Maurice Duruflé, French composer and organist (b. 1902)
1988 – Kim Milford, American actor (b. 1951)
1993 – Lindsay Hassett, Australian cricketer (b. 1913)
1994 - Kristen Pfaff, American bassist (b. 1967)
1996 – Mel Allen, baseball announcer (b. 1913)
1996 – Curt Swan, American comic book artist (b. 1920)
1998 - Jafar Sharif-Emami, Prime Minister of Iran (b. 1910)
1999 – Screaming Lord Sutch, British musician and politician (b. 1940)
2000 – Empress Nagako of Japan (b. 1903)

From 2001

2003 – Georg Henrik von Wright, Finnish-Swedish philosopher (b. 1916)
2004 – Thanom Kittikachorn, Prime Minister of Thailand (b. 1912)
2005 – Enrique Laguerre, Puerto Rican writer (b. 1906)
2008 – Mario Rigoni Stern, Italian writer (b. 1921)
2008 - Tom Compernolle, Belgian runner (b. 1975)
2010 – Ronald Neame, British cinematographer, producer, screenwriter and director (b. 1911)
2010 - Marc Bazin, 49th President of Haiti (b. 1932)
2012 - Nils Karlsson, Swedish cross-country skier (b. 1917)
2012 - Nayef bin Abdul-Aziz al-Saud, Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia (b. 1934)
2013 - Ottmar Walter, German footballer (b. 1924)
2013 - Hans Hass, Austrian diver (b. 1919)
2014 - Tony Gwynn, American baseball player (b. 1960)
2014 - Pierre D'Archambeau, Belgian-American violinist (b. 1927)
2015 - Charles Correa, Indian architect (b. 1930)
2015 - Tony Ranasinghe, Sri Lankan actor (b. 1937)
2016 - Jo Cox, English politician (b. 1974)