
June 16 is the 167th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (168th in leap years), with 198 days remaining. ==Events== *1487 - Battle of Stoke Field, the last dying breath of the Wars of the Roses *1586 - Mary I of Scotland recognizes Philip II of Spain as her heir *1716 - The first volume of Alexander Pope's translation of the Iliad is published. Admonishes classical scholar Richard Bentley: "It is a pretty poem, Mr. Pope, but you must not call it Homer." *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, 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 Britain and the siege of Gibraltar begins *1815 - Battle of Ligny and Battle of Quatre Bras, two days before Battle of Waterloo. *1836 - Formation of the London Working Men's Association begins the Chartism *1846 - The Papal conclave, 1846 concludes. Pope Pius IX is elected pope, beginning the longest reign in the history of the post-apostle papacy. *1858 - Abraham Lincoln's House Divided speech in Springfield, Illinois *1858 - Battle of Morar, during the Indian Mutiny. *1871 - Test Act allows students to enter the Universities of University of Oxford, University of Cambridge and University of Durham without religious tests, except for courses in theology. *1884 - The first roller coaster in the United States begins operation at Coney Island, New York *1891 - John Joseph Caldwell Abbott becomes Canada's third Prime Minister of Canada. *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 Ivanovich Bobrikov, Governor-General of Finland. *1904 - Leopold Bloom walks around Dublin. (see Ulysses (novel)) *1911 - A 772 gram stony meteorite struck earth near Kilbourn, Wisconsin, Columbia County, Wisconsin damaging a barn. *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 - The most famous Young Pioneer camp of the Soviet Union, Artek (camp) established. *1940 - World War II: Marshal Henri Philippe Pétain becomes Premier of Vichy France *1940 - A Communist government is installed in Lithuania *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. *1955 - Pope Pius XII excommunication Juan Perón *1956 - Ted Hughes marries Sylvia Plath *1960 - Alfred Hitchcock's ''Psycho'' opens in New York *1961 - Rudolf Nureyev defects at Le Bourget airport in Paris *1963 - Valentina Tereshkova becomes the first woman in space *1972 - Burglars are caught breaking into the United States Democratic Party headquarters in the Watergate building *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 *1994 - A Chinese operated Northwest Airlines Tupolev TU-154 crashes 10 minutes after takeoff killing 160 *1995 - The [http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html APOD] was born *1996 - First round of voting in the Russia presidential election *1997 - Dairat Labguer massacre in Algeria; some 50 people killed. *1999 - Thabo Mbeki elected President of South Africa. *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 Hatfield-McCoy feud sign a formal truce. ==Births== *1313 - Giovanni Boccaccio, Italian writer (d. 1375) *1514 - John Cheke, English classical scholar (d. 1557) *1583 - Axel Oxenstierna, Swedish statesman (d. 1654) *1613 - John Cleveland, English poet (d. 1658) *1644 - Henrietta Anne Stuart, Princess of Scotland, England and Ireland and Duchess of Orléans (d. 1670) *1738 - Mary Katharine Goddard, American printer and publisher (d. 1816) *1792 - John Linnell (1792), English artist (d. 1882) *1792 - Sir Thomas Mitchell, Australian explorer (d. 1855) *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) *1826 - Constantin von Ettingshausen, Austrian geologist and botanist (d. 1897) *1829 - Geronimo, Apache warrior and leader (d. 1909) *1836 - Wesley Merritt, soldier (d. 1910) *1837 - Ernst Laas, German philosopher (d. 1885) *1838 - Cushman Davis, politician (d. 1900) *1840 - Ernst Otto Schlick, engineer (d. 1913) *1858 - King Gustav V of Sweden (d. 1950) *1874 - Arthur Meighen, ninth Prime Minister of Canada (d. 1960) *1880 - Otto Eisenschiml, Austrian-American chemist and historian (d. 1963) *1890 - Stan Laurel, British-born actor and comedian (d. 1965) *1896 - Murray Leinster, author (d. 1976) *1897 - Georg Wittig, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1987) *1902 - Barbara McClintock, geneticist (d. 1992) *1902 - George Gaylord Simpson, paleontologist (d. 1984) *1903 - Helen Traubel, American soprano (d. 1972) *1907 - Jack Albertson, actor (d. 1981) *1909 - Archie Fairley Carr, biologist and expert on turtles (d. 1987) *1910 - Juan Velasco, President of Peru from 1968 to 1975 (d. 1977) *1912 - Enoch Powell, United Kingdom politician (d. 1998) *1914 - Babe Didrikson Zaharias, athletics (d. 1956) *1916 - Hank Luisetti, baseball player (d. 2002) *1917 - Katharine Graham, ''Washington Post'' publisher (d. 2001) *1917 - Irving Penn, photographer *1920 - José López Portillo, President of Mexico from 1976 to 1982 (d. 2004) *1920 - John Howard Griffin, writer (d. 1980) *1927 - Tom Graveney, English cricketer *1927 - Herbert Lichtenfeld, author and playwright (d. 2001) *1930 - Vilmos Zsigmond, cinematography *1934 - Dame Eileen Atkins, English actress *1935 - Jim Dine, artist *1937 - Erich Segal, author *1938 - James Bolam, English actor *1938 - Joyce Carol Oates, novelist *1940 - Neil Goldschmidt, governor of Oregon *1941 - Lamont Dozier, record company executive *1942 - Giacomo Agostini, Italy motorcyclist *1942 - Eddie Levert, R&B singer *1947 - -minu, Swiss columnist and writer *1951 - Roberto Durán, boxing *1952 - Michel Blanc, France actor *1952 - George Papandreou, junior, Greece politician *1952 - Gino Vannelli, vocalist, songwriter *1955 - Laurie Metcalf, actress Dennis Lippincott, Printer *1966 - Jan Zelezný, Czech athlete *1967 - John Franklin (actor), actor *1970 - Phil Mickelson, golfer *1971 - Tupac Shakur, musician (d. 1996) *1977 - Kerry Wood (baseball player), baseball pitcher *1980 - Joey Yung, Hong Kong singer *1988 - Marinó Sigurðsson, Iceland actor/director *1988 - Keshia Chanté, Canada R&B Singer ==Deaths== *1750 BC - King Hammurabi of Babylon *AD 1216 - Pope Innocent III *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. ''ca.'' 1555) *1626 - Christian the Younger, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg-Wolfenbüttel, Protestant military commander (b. 1599) *1666 - Richard Fanshawe, English poet, translator and diplomat (b. 1608) *1671 - Stenka Razin, Cossack rebel leader (executed) (b. ca. 1630) *1707 - Marie d'Orleans-Longueville, Duchess de Nemours, sovereign princess of Neuchâtel, best known for her ''Mémoires'' (b. 1625) *1722 - John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough, England general (b. 1650) *1752 - Giulio Alberoni, Spain cardinal (b. 1664) *1752 - Joseph Butler, England philosopher (b. 1692) *1777 - Jean-Baptiste-Louis Gresset, French poet and dramatist (b. 1709) *1778 - Konrad Ekhof, Germany actor (b. 1720) *1779 - Sir Francis Bernard, Governor of New Jersey and Massachusetts (b. 1712) *1804 - Johann Hiller, Germany composer (b. 1728) *1817 - Alexander J. Dallas, statesman and financier (b. 1759) *1848 - Ludwig II, Grand-Duke of Hesse-Darmstadt, (b. 1777) *1849 - Wilhelm Martin Leberecht de Wette, Germany theologian (b. 1780) *1855 - John Gorrie, physician, early pioneer in refrigeration (b. 1803) *1858 - John Snow, English obstetrician (b. 1813) *1866 - Auguste Barthelemy, France satirical poet (b. 1796) *1869 - Charles Sturt, England explorer (b. 1795) *1872 - Norman MacCleod, Scottish clergyman to Queen Victoria (b. 1812) *1878 - Crawford Long, physician (b. 1815) *1881 - Sir Josiah Mason, England pen-manufacturer (b. 1795) *1885 - Wilhelm Camphausen, Germany painter (b. 1818) *1894 - William Calder Marshall, Scottish sculptor (b. 1813) *1900 - Prince François, Duke of Joinville, third son of Louis-Philippe of France (b. 1818) *1925 - Chittaranjan Das, Indian patriot and freedom fighter (b. 1870) *1925 - Emmett Hardy, jazz musician (b. 1903) *1930 - Elmer Ambrose Sperry, inventor (b. 1860) *1940 - DuBose Heyward, writer *1944 - Marc Bloch, France historian (executed) (b. 1886) *1953 - Margaret Bondfield, English politician and feminist (b. 1873) *1958 - Imre Nagy, former List of Prime Ministers of Hungary (b. 1895) *1959 - George Reeves, actor, played Superman (b. 1914) *1969 - Harold Alexander, British military commander (b. 1891) *1970 - Brian Piccolo, American football player *1971 - John Charles Walsham Reith, first Director-General of the BBC (b. 1889) *1976 - Hector Pieterson, one of the first children (566 in all) killed during the Soweto Uprising. *1977 - Wernher von Braun, rocket scientist (b. 1912) *1979 - Vernon Presley, father of Elvis Presley (b. 1916) *1979 - Nicholas Ray, film director (b. 1911) *1981 - Jule Gregory Charney, meteorologist *1986 - Maurice Duruflé, French composer and organist (b. 1902) *1988 - Kim Milford, actor (b. 1951) *1993 - Lindsay Hassett, Australian cricketer (b. 1913) *1996 - Mel Allen, baseball announcer *1999 - Screaming Lord Sutch, founder of United Kingdom Official Monster Raving Loony Party (b. 1940) *2000 - Dowager Empress Nagako of Japan, consort of Emperor Hirohito (b. 1903) *2003 - Enrico Baj, Italy avantgarde artist *2003 - Georg Henrik von Wright, Finland-Swedish philosopher (b. 1916) *2005 - Enrique Laguerre, Puerto Rican writer (b. 1906) ==Holidays and observances== *South Africa - Youth Day *Roman Catholic Church - Feast of Saint John Regis, patron of medical social workers *Bloomsday, in honour of James Joyce's ''Ulysses (novel)'' == External links == * [http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/june/16 BBC: On This Day] ---- June 15 - June 17 - May 16 - July 16 -- historical anniversaries ka:16 ივნისი ml:ജൂണ് 16 th:16 มิถุนายน
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June 16 is the 167th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (168th in leap years), with 198 days remaining. ==Events== *1487 - Battle of Stoke Field, the last dying breath of the Wars of the Roses *1586 - Mary I of Scotland recognizes Philip II of Spain as her heir *1716 - The first volume of Alexander Pope's translation of the Iliad is published. Admonishes classical scholar Richard Bentley: "It is a pretty poem, Mr. Pope, but you must not call it Homer." *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, 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 Britain and the siege of Gibraltar begins *1815 - Battle of Ligny and Battle of Quatre Bras, two days before Battle of Waterloo. *1836 - Formation of the London Working Men's Association begins the Chartism *1846 - The Papal conclave, 1846 concludes. Pope Pius IX is elected pope, beginning the longest reign in the history of the post-apostle papacy. *1858 - Abraham Lincoln's House Divided speech in Springfield, Illinois *1858 - Battle of Morar, during the Indian Mutiny. *1871 - Test Act allows students to enter the Universities of University of Oxford, University of Cambridge and University of Durham without religious tests, except for courses in theology. *1884 - The first roller coaster in the United States begins operation at Coney Island, New York *1891 - John Joseph Caldwell Abbott becomes Canada's third Prime Minister of Canada. *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 Ivanovich Bobrikov, Governor-General of Finland. *1904 - Leopold Bloom walks around Dublin. (see Ulysses (novel)) *1911 - A 772 gram stony meteorite struck earth near Kilbourn, Wisconsin, Columbia County, Wisconsin damaging a barn. *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 - The most famous Young Pioneer camp of the Soviet Union, Artek (camp) established. *1940 - World War II: Marshal Henri Philippe Pétain becomes Premier of Vichy France *1940 - A Communist government is installed in Lithuania *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. *1955 - Pope Pius XII excommunication Juan Perón *1956 - Ted Hughes marries Sylvia Plath *1960 - Alfred Hitchcock's ''Psycho'' opens in New York *1961 - Rudolf Nureyev defects at Le Bourget airport in Paris *1963 - Valentina Tereshkova becomes the first woman in space *1972 - Burglars are caught breaking into the United States Democratic Party headquarters in the Watergate building *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 *1994 - A Chinese operated Northwest Airlines Tupolev TU-154 crashes 10 minutes after takeoff killing 160 *1995 - The [http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html APOD] was born *1996 - First round of voting in the Russia presidential election *1997 - Dairat Labguer massacre in Algeria; some 50 people killed. *1999 - Thabo Mbeki elected President of South Africa. *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 Hatfield-McCoy feud sign a formal truce. ==Births== *1313 - Giovanni Boccaccio, Italian writer (d. 1375) *1514 - John Cheke, English classical scholar (d. 1557) *1583 - Axel Oxenstierna, Swedish statesman (d. 1654) *1613 - John Cleveland, English poet (d. 1658) *1644 - Henrietta Anne Stuart, Princess of Scotland, England and Ireland and Duchess of Orléans (d. 1670) *1738 - Mary Katharine Goddard, American printer and publisher (d. 1816) *1792 - John Linnell (1792), English artist (d. 1882) *1792 - Sir Thomas Mitchell, Australian explorer (d. 1855) *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) *1826 - Constantin von Ettingshausen, Austrian geologist and botanist (d. 1897) *1829 - Geronimo, Apache warrior and leader (d. 1909) *1836 - Wesley Merritt, soldier (d. 1910) *1837 - Ernst Laas, German philosopher (d. 1885) *1838 - Cushman Davis, politician (d. 1900) *1840 - Ernst Otto Schlick, engineer (d. 1913) *1858 - King Gustav V of Sweden (d. 1950) *1874 - Arthur Meighen, ninth Prime Minister of Canada (d. 1960) *1880 - Otto Eisenschiml, Austrian-American chemist and historian (d. 1963) *1890 - Stan Laurel, British-born actor and comedian (d. 1965) *1896 - Murray Leinster, author (d. 1976) *1897 - Georg Wittig, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1987) *1902 - Barbara McClintock, geneticist (d. 1992) *1902 - George Gaylord Simpson, paleontologist (d. 1984) *1903 - Helen Traubel, American soprano (d. 1972) *1907 - Jack Albertson, actor (d. 1981) *1909 - Archie Fairley Carr, biologist and expert on turtles (d. 1987) *1910 - Juan Velasco, President of Peru from 1968 to 1975 (d. 1977) *1912 - Enoch Powell, United Kingdom politician (d. 1998) *1914 - Babe Didrikson Zaharias, athletics (d. 1956) *1916 - Hank Luisetti, baseball player (d. 2002) *1917 - Katharine Graham, ''Washington Post'' publisher (d. 2001) *1917 - Irving Penn, photographer *1920 - José López Portillo, President of Mexico from 1976 to 1982 (d. 2004) *1920 - John Howard Griffin, writer (d. 1980) *1927 - Tom Graveney, English cricketer *1927 - Herbert Lichtenfeld, author and playwright (d. 2001) *1930 - Vilmos Zsigmond, cinematography *1934 - Dame Eileen Atkins, English actress *1935 - Jim Dine, artist *1937 - Erich Segal, author *1938 - James Bolam, English actor *1938 - Joyce Carol Oates, novelist *1940 - Neil Goldschmidt, governor of Oregon *1941 - Lamont Dozier, record company executive *1942 - Giacomo Agostini, Italy motorcyclist *1942 - Eddie Levert, R&B singer *1947 - -minu, Swiss columnist and writer *1951 - Roberto Durán, boxing *1952 - Michel Blanc, France actor *1952 - George Papandreou, junior, Greece politician *1952 - Gino Vannelli, vocalist, songwriter *1955 - Laurie Metcalf, actress Dennis Lippincott, Printer *1966 - Jan Zelezný, Czech athlete *1967 - John Franklin (actor), actor *1970 - Phil Mickelson, golfer *1971 - Tupac Shakur, musician (d. 1996) *1977 - Kerry Wood (baseball player), baseball pitcher *1980 - Joey Yung, Hong Kong singer *1988 - Marinó Sigurðsson, Iceland actor/director *1988 - Keshia Chanté, Canada R&B Singer ==Deaths== *1750 BC - King Hammurabi of Babylon *AD 1216 - Pope Innocent III *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. ''ca.'' 1555) *1626 - Christian the Younger, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg-Wolfenbüttel, Protestant military commander (b. 1599) *1666 - Richard Fanshawe, English poet, translator and diplomat (b. 1608) *1671 - Stenka Razin, Cossack rebel leader (executed) (b. ca. 1630) *1707 - Marie d'Orleans-Longueville, Duchess de Nemours, sovereign princess of Neuchâtel, best known for her ''Mémoires'' (b. 1625) *1722 - John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough, England general (b. 1650) *1752 - Giulio Alberoni, Spain cardinal (b. 1664) *1752 - Joseph Butler, England philosopher (b. 1692) *1777 - Jean-Baptiste-Louis Gresset, French poet and dramatist (b. 1709) *1778 - Konrad Ekhof, Germany actor (b. 1720) *1779 - Sir Francis Bernard, Governor of New Jersey and Massachusetts (b. 1712) *1804 - Johann Hiller, Germany composer (b. 1728) *1817 - Alexander J. Dallas, statesman and financier (b. 1759) *1848 - Ludwig II, Grand-Duke of Hesse-Darmstadt, (b. 1777) *1849 - Wilhelm Martin Leberecht de Wette, Germany theologian (b. 1780) *1855 - John Gorrie, physician, early pioneer in refrigeration (b. 1803) *1858 - John Snow, English obstetrician (b. 1813) *1866 - Auguste Barthelemy, France satirical poet (b. 1796) *1869 - Charles Sturt, England explorer (b. 1795) *1872 - Norman MacCleod, Scottish clergyman to Queen Victoria (b. 1812) *1878 - Crawford Long, physician (b. 1815) *1881 - Sir Josiah Mason, England pen-manufacturer (b. 1795) *1885 - Wilhelm Camphausen, Germany painter (b. 1818) *1894 - William Calder Marshall, Scottish sculptor (b. 1813) *1900 - Prince François, Duke of Joinville, third son of Louis-Philippe of France (b. 1818) *1925 - Chittaranjan Das, Indian patriot and freedom fighter (b. 1870) *1925 - Emmett Hardy, jazz musician (b. 1903) *1930 - Elmer Ambrose Sperry, inventor (b. 1860) *1940 - DuBose Heyward, writer *1944 - Marc Bloch, France historian (executed) (b. 1886) *1953 - Margaret Bondfield, English politician and feminist (b. 1873) *1958 - Imre Nagy, former List of Prime Ministers of Hungary (b. 1895) *1959 - George Reeves, actor, played Superman (b. 1914) *1969 - Harold Alexander, British military commander (b. 1891) *1970 - Brian Piccolo, American football player *1971 - John Charles Walsham Reith, first Director-General of the BBC (b. 1889) *1976 - Hector Pieterson, one of the first children (566 in all) killed during the Soweto Uprising. *1977 - Wernher von Braun, rocket scientist (b. 1912) *1979 - Vernon Presley, father of Elvis Presley (b. 1916) *1979 - Nicholas Ray, film director (b. 1911) *1981 - Jule Gregory Charney, meteorologist *1986 - Maurice Duruflé, French composer and organist (b. 1902) *1988 - Kim Milford, actor (b. 1951) *1993 - Lindsay Hassett, Australian cricketer (b. 1913) *1996 - Mel Allen, baseball announcer *1999 - Screaming Lord Sutch, founder of United Kingdom Official Monster Raving Loony Party (b. 1940) *2000 - Dowager Empress Nagako of Japan, consort of Emperor Hirohito (b. 1903) *2003 - Enrico Baj, Italy avantgarde artist *2003 - Georg Henrik von Wright, Finland-Swedish philosopher (b. 1916) *2005 - Enrique Laguerre, Puerto Rican writer (b. 1906) ==Holidays and observances== *South Africa - Youth Day *Roman Catholic Church - Feast of Saint John Regis, patron of medical social workers *Bloomsday, in honour of James Joyce's ''Ulysses (novel)'' == External links == * [http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/june/16 BBC: On This Day] ---- June 15 - June 17 - May 16 - July 16 -- historical anniversaries ka:16 ივნისი ml:ജൂണ് 16 th:16 มิถุนายน
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