June 16

Monday 16, 2003:

The Hatfields and McCoys sign a formal truce.

Sunday 16, 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.

Saturday 16, 2001:

George W. Bush and Vladimir Putin meet in Brdo pri Kranju, Slovenia

Wednesday 16, 1999:

Thabo Mbeki elected President of South Africa.

Monday 16, 1997:

Dairat Labguer massacre in Algeria; some 50 people killed.

Sunday 16, 1996:

First round of voting in the Russian presidential election

Friday 16, 1995:

1995 - The APOD was born

Thursday 16, 1994:

A Chinese operated Northwest Airlines Tupolev TU-154 crashes 10 minutes after takeoff killing 160

Thursday 16, 1983:

Yuri Andropov becomes president of the USSR

Tuesday 16, 1981:

Ken Taylor honoured for helping six Americans escape from Iran during hostage crisis

Thursday 16, 1977:

Leonid Brezhnev becomes president of the USSR

Wednesday 16, 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.

Friday 16, 1972:

Largest single-site hydro-electric power project starts at Churchill Falls Newfoundland

Sunday 16, 1963:

Valentina Tereshkova becomes the first woman in space

Saturday 16, 1962:

1962 - Two U.S. Army officers are killed in Saigon,Vietnam.

Friday 16, 1961:

Rudolf Nureyev defects at Le Bourget airport in Paris

Thursday 16, 1960:

Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho opens in New York

Saturday 16, 1956:

Ted Hughes marries Sylvia Plath

Thursday 16, 1955:

Pope Pius XII excommunicates Juan Perón

Wednesday 16, 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.

Sunday 16, 1940:

A Communist government is installed in Lithuania

Tuesday 16, 1925:

The most famous Young Pioneer camp of the USSR, Artek established.

Monday 16, 1924:

Whampoa Military Academy is founded

Friday 16, 1922:

General election in Irish Free State: large majority to pro-Treaty Sinn Féin

Wednesday 16, 1915:

Foundation of the British Women's Institute

Friday 16, 1911:

A 772 gram stony meteorite struck earth near Kilbourn, Columbia County, Wisconsin damaging a barn.

Thursday 16, 1904:

Leopold Bloom walks around Dublin. (see Ulysses) Known as Bloomsday.

Tuesday 16, 1903:

Roald Amundsen commences first east-west navigation of the Northwest Passage by leaving Oslo, Norway.

Monday 16, 1902:

Australia: Female British subjects (with the glaring exception of Asians, Aborigines and Africans) won the vote with the Uniform Franchise Act.

Tuesday 16, 1891:

John Abbott becomes Canada's third prime minister.

Monday 16, 1884:

The first roller coaster in the United States begins operation at Coney Island, New York

Friday 16, 1871:

University Tests Act allows students to enter the Universities of Oxford, Cambridge and Durham without religious tests, except for courses in theology.

Wednesday 16, 1858:

Battle of Morar, during the Indian Mutiny.

Tuesday 16, 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.

Thursday 16, 1836:

Formation of the London Working Men's Association begins the Chartist Movement

Friday 16, 1815:

Battle of Ligny and Battle of Quatre Bras, two days before Waterloo.

Wednesday 16, 1779:

Spain declares war on Britain and the siege of Gibraltar begins

Thursday 16, 1774:

Formation of Harrodsburg, Kentucky.

Monday 16, 1755:

French and Indian War: French surrender Fort Beauséjour to the British, leading to the expulsion of the Acadians

Thursday 16, 1746:

War of Austrian Succession: Austria and Sardinia defeat a Franco-Spanish army at the Battle of Piacenza

Wednesday 16, 1745:

Sir William Pepperell captures the French Fortress Louisbourg in Louisbourg, Nova Scotia during the War of the Austrian Succession.

Monday 16, 1586:

Mary Queen of Scots recognizes Philip II of Spain as her heir

Thursday 16, 1487:

Battle of Stoke Field, the last dying breath of the Wars of the Roses

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