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Birthday June 16, 1738 Patriot printer, publisher and postmistress, Mary Katharine Goddard, born |
Birthday June 16, 1874 Arthur Meighen, (C), 9th prime minister of Canada (1920-21, 1926) |
Birthday June 16, 1895 Stan Laurel, file comedian (Laurel & Hardy) |
Birthday June 16, 1902 Barbara McClintock, U.S. cytogeneticist (Nobel 1983) |
Birthday June 16, 1903 Helen Traubel, opera singer |
Birthday June 16, 1912 Enoch Powell, British Conservative, racist |
Birthday June 16, 1917 Katharine Graham, newspaper publisher ("Washington Post") |
Birthday June 16, 1920 John Howard Griffin, American photographer, author (Black Like Me) |
Birthday June 16, 1937 Erich Segal, author (Love Story) |
Birthday June 16, 1938 Joyce Carol Oates, American novelist (Garden of Earthly Delights) |
History June 16, 1567 Mary Queen of Scots thrown into Lochleven Castle prison |
History June 16, 1686 BC Hammurabi the Great dies - Babylon |
History June 16, 1775 Battle of Bunker Hill (actually Breed's Hill) |
History June 16, 1832 Battle of Kellogg's Grove - Ill |
History June 16, 1858 Lincoln warns that America is becoming a house divided |
History June 16, 1858 A house divided against itself cannot stand - Abraham Lincoln |
History June 16, 1862 Union thwarted at the Battle of Secessionville |
History June 16, 1883 1st baseball "Ladies' Day" (NY Gothams vs Cleveland Spiders) |
History June 16, 1890 Alaskan explorer Fred Fickett leaves Army |
History June 16, 1896 Tsunami ravages Japanese coast |
History June 16, 1903 Ford Motor Company incorporated |
History June 16, 1903 1st Highlander (Yankee) shut-out victory 1-0 over White Sox |
History June 16, 1903 Ford Motor Company vehicle manufacturer |
History June 16, 1904 James Joyce meets his future wife, Nora |
History June 16, 1904 Bloomsday (date of events in James Joyce's Ulysses) |
History June 16, 1918 Battle of the Piave River |
History June 16, 1919 1st nonstop transatlantic flight completed |
History June 16, 1933 National Industrial Recovery Act becomes law (later struck down) |
History June 16, 1933 Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (US) created (FDIC) |
History June 16, 1937 Marx Brothers' "A Day At The Races" opens in LA |
History June 16, 1940 Marshal Petain becomes premier of occupied France |
History June 16, 1941 1st US federally owned airport opened Wash DC |
History June 16, 1943 Charlie Chaplin marries Oona O’Neill |
History June 16, 1947 1st network news - Dumont's "News from Washington" |
History June 16, 1947 Pravda denounces Marshall Plan |
History June 16, 1949 Gas turbine-electric locomotive demonstrated Erie Pa |
History June 16, 1953 Despite Johnny Mize 2000th hit Yanks lose ending 18 game win streak |
History June 16, 1958 Leader of Hungarian uprising executed |
History June 16, 1961 Rudolf Nureyev Soviet ballet dancer defects to West |
History June 16, 1961 Kennedy agrees to send instructors to train troops |
History June 16, 1961 Russian ballet star Nureyev defects |
History June 16, 1963 First woman in space |
History June 16, 1963 Valentina Tereshkova becomes 1st woman in space - aboard Vostok 6 |
History June 16, 1963 Levi Eshkol replaces David Ben-Gurion as Israeli PM |
History June 16, 1965 More troops to be sent to Vietnam |
History June 16, 1965 Bob Dylan records Like A Rolling Stone |
History June 16, 1968 Lee Trevino wins his first U.S. Open |
History June 16, 1970 Communists isolate Phnom Penh |
History June 16, 1976 US ambassador to Lebanon kidnapped & killed |
History June 16, 1976 Soweto Day Student uprisings begin in Soweto - South Africa |
History June 16, 1977 Leonid Brezhnev named president of USSR |
History June 16, 1977 Ron Guidry's 1st complete game 7-0 over KC Royals. Also Wernher von Braun dies at 65 from smoking |
History June 16, 1977 Brezhnev is Soviet president |
History June 16, 1978 Tom Seaver no hits St Louis Cards |
History June 16, 1982 Britain requests Argentina arrange for return of prisoners |
History June 16, 1984 Edwin Moses wins his 100th consecutive 400-meter hurdles race |
History June 16, 1986 One-day general strike in South Africa |
History June 16, 1987 Subway gunman Bernhard Goetz acquitted on all but gun possession charges after shooting 4 black youths who tried to rob him |
History June 16, 1999 SLA member captured after more than 20 years |