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Today in
History ~ June 16
Events
0632 - Origin of Persian [Yezdegird] Era
1487 - Battle at Stoke: Henry VII beats John de la Pole & Lord Lovell
1567 - Mary, Queen of Scots, was imprisoned in Lochleven Castle in Scotland.
1745 - English fleet occupies Cap Breton on St Lawrence River
1755 - British capture Fort Beausejour, expel Acadians
1775 - Liberty Bell rang for the 2nd Continental Congress
1779 - In support of the US, Spain declares war on England
1779 - Vice-Admiral Hardy sails out of Isle of Wight against Spanish fleet
1784 - Holland forbids orange clothes
1815 - Battle at Ligny -- French army under Napoleon beats Prussia
1815 - Battle at Quatre-Bras -- Allies strike French
1822 - Denmark Vessy leads slave rebellion in South Carolina
1832 - Battle of Kellogg's Grove - Illinois
1858 - Abraham Lincoln says "A house divided against itself cannot stand"
1861 - Battle of Vienna, VA & Secessionville, SC (James Island)
1864 - Battle of Lynchburg VA
1879 - Gilbert & Sullivan's "HMS Pinafore" debuts at Bowery Theater NYC
1880 - Salvation Army musters in London
1883 - 1st baseball "Ladies' Day" (NY Gothams vs Cleveland Spiders)
1884 - 1st roller coaster (Coney Island NY)
1893 - RW Rueckheim invents Cracker Jack
1897 - The government signed a treaty of annexation with Hawaii.
1903 - Ford Motor Co. was incorporated.
1903 - Pepsi Cola company forms
1904 - James Joyce met his future wife, Nora, for the second time and fell in love. He later chose the date as Bloomsday (date of events in his novel Ulysses)
1909 - Jim Thorpe makes his pro baseball pitching debut for Rocky Mount(ECL) with 4-2 win, this will cause him to forfeit his Olympic medals
1917 - 1st Congress of Soviets convene in Russia
1919 - 1st nonstop transatlantic flight completed
1922 - Henry Berliner demonstrates his helicopter to US Bureau of Aeronautics
1923 - Sun Yat Sen founds military academy
1932 - Germany forbids SA/SS street brawls
1933 - The National Industrial Recovery Act became law. (It was later struck down by the Supreme Court.)
1933 - US Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) created
1935 - US Congress accepts FDR's "New Deal"
1937 - Marx Brothers' "A Day At The Races" opens in LA
1941 - 1st US federally owned airport opened Wash DC
1946 - "Annie Get Your Gun" opens at Imperial Theater NYC for 1147 performances
1947 - 1st network news - Dumont's "News from Washington"
1947 - Pravda denounces Marshall Plan
1949 - Gas turbine-electric locomotive demonstrated Erie Pa
1952 - Soviet Fighters shoot down Swedish Catalina reconnaissance flight
1953 - Despite Johnny Mize 2000th hit Yanks lose ending 18 game win streak
1954 - Ngo Dinh Diem elected president of Vietnam
1955 - Pope Pius XII excommunicated Argentine President Juan Domingo Peron (for failure to make his Easter Duty) - a ban that was lifted eight years later.
1957 - French offensive in Algeria
1960 - The movie "Psycho," directed by Alfred Hitchcock, opened in New York.
1961 - Dave Garroway is fired as Today Show host
1961 - Soviet ballet dancer Rudolf Nureyev defected to the West while his troupe was in Paris.
1963 - Levi Eshkol replaces David Ben-Gurion as Israeli PM
1963 - The world's first female space traveler, Valentina Tereshkova, was launched into orbit by the Soviet Union aboard Vostok 6. [H]
1966 - "Rowan & Martin Show," debuts on NBC-TV
1966 - 20th Tony Awards: Marat/Sade & Man of La Mancha win
1970 - Kenneth Gibson of Newark, N.J., became the first black to win a mayoral election in a major Northeast city.
1970 - Race riots in Miami
1976 - Soweto Day Student uprisings begin in Soweto - South Africa
1976 - U.S. Ambassador Francis E. Meloy, Jr. is murdered along with his associate Robert Waring, an American economic advisor. The two had been en route to a meeting with Lebanese president-elect Elias Sarkis when they were abducted by Muslim guerillas in Beirut
1977 - Leonid Ilich Brezhnev, first secretary of the Soviet Communist Party since 1964, was elected president of the Supreme Soviet, thereby becoming both head of party and head of state.
1978 - President Jimmy Carter and Panamanian leader Omar Torrijos exchanged the instruments of ratification for the Panama Canal treaties.
1979 - Moslem Brotherhood kills 62 sheiks in Aleppo Syria
1980 - "Blues Brothers," premieres in Chicago
1980 - Supreme Court rules new forms of life created in labs could become patents
1982 - Britain requests Argentina arrange for return of prisoners
1983 - Pope John Paul II visits Poland
1983 - USSR party leader Yuri Andropov elected president
1984 - Edwin Moses wins his 100th consecutive 400-meter hurdles race
1986 - South African blacks marked the 10th anniversary of the Soweto uprising with a one-day strike. Eleven blacks were killed in the resulting violence.
1987 - Subway gunman Bernhard Goetz acquitted on all but gun possession charges after shooting 4 black youths who tried to rob him
1989 - Formal State Funeral for Imre Nagy, martyred leader of Hungarian uprising in 1956 [H]
1990 - A crowd in the Netherlands welcomed African National Congress leader Nelson Mandela, who thanked them for staunch Dutch support for the anti-apartheid movement.
1991 - Boris Yeltsin elected president of Russian SSR
1992 - President Bush and Russian President Boris Yeltsin met at the White House for the first ever U.S.-Russian summit.
1992 - Former Defense Secretary Weinberger was indicted on five felony counts of lying to Congress and investigators in connection with the Iran-Contra scandal.
1993 - The U.N. Security Council voted to impose a world- wide ban on oil shipments to Haiti.
1995 - Salt Lake City "awarded" the XIX Winter Olympics in 2002 Scandal on pay-offs not discovered for a few years.
1998 - Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic indicated a willingness to resume peace talks with ethnic Albanian leaders about the rebellious Serbian province of Kosovo.
1998 - The Detroit Red Wings won the National Hockey League's Stanley Cup for the second straight year with a four-game sweep of the Washington Capitals.
1999 - Vice President Al Gore announced his candidacy for the Democratic presidential nomination.
Birthdays Today
1874 - Arthur Meighen, (C) 9th prime minister of Canada (1920-21 1926)
1890 - Stan Laurel (Arthur Stanley Jefferson) (actor, comedian: Laurel & Hardy: made over 200 films together)
1896 - Jean Peugeot, Frans auto manufacturer
1899 - Helen Traubel, St Louis MO, soprano (Met Opera Walkure/Isolde), nightclubs
1899 - Nelson Doubleday, US, publisher (Doubleday)
1902 - Barbara McClintock, US, cytogeneticist (Jumping Genes, Nobel 1983)
1910 - Jack Albertson (Academy Award-winning actor [1968]; Tony Award- winner [1965]: The Subject was Roses; Emmy Awards: Cher [1974- 75], Chico & The Man [1975-76])
1912 - Enoch Powell, British Conservative racist
1916 - Hank (Angelo) Lusetti (basketball)
1917 - Katherine Graham (publisher: The Washington Post)
1920 - John Howard Griffin, American photographer author (Black Like Me)
1937 - August Busch III, CEO (Anheuser-Busch, St Louis Cards)
1937 - Erich Segal (writer: Love Story, Acts of Faith, Man, Woman and Child, Oliver's Story)
1938 - Joyce Carol Oates (novelist: The Time Traveler, Triumph of the Spider Monkey)
1939 - Billy "Crash" Craddock (country singer: Don't Destroy Me, Ruby, Baby, Rub It In, Sea Cruise)
1941 - Lamont Dozier (songwriter: team: Holland-Dozier Holland: Baby Love, I Can't Help Myself; inducted into Rock and Roll Hall of Fame [1990]; solo: Why Can't We Be Lovers, Trying to Hold on to My Woman)
1942 - Eddie Levert (singer: group: The O'Jays: Love Train, Back Stabbers)
1943 - Joan Van Ark (actress: Knots Landing, Tainted Blood, Frogs)
1946 - Derek Sanderson (hockey: Boston Bruins: shares season record for shorthanded goals scored [3 in 1969])
1951 - Stan Wall (baseball)
1952 - Ron LeFlore (baseball: Detroit Tigers center fielder; stole 97 bases for Montreal Expos in 1980)
1952 - Steve Bowling (baseball)
1955 - Laurie Metcalf (Emmy Award-winning actress: Roseanne [1991-92, 1992-93, 1993-94], A Dangerous Woman, JFK, Pacific Heights, Uncle Buck, Desperately Seeking Susan)
1975 - Frederick Koehler (actor: Kate and Allie)
Famous deaths
1686 BC - Hammurabi the Great dies - Babylon
0956 - Hugo the Great, duke of France, dies
1492 - Jan Coppenhole, Flemish rebel leader, beheaded
1671 - Stenka Razin, Cossack rebel leader, tortured & executed in Moscow
1722 - John Churchill, first Duke of Marlborough, English military strategist, dies at 72
1940 - Dubose Heyward, US writer (Porgy, Star Spangled Virgin), dies
1958 - Imre Nagy, a former Hungarian premier and symbol of the nation's 1956 uprising against Soviet rule, was hanged by Communist occupiers [H]
1977 - Werner von Braun, Nazi/American rocket scientist (V1/V2), dies at 65 of smoking
1987 - The last surviving dusky seaside sparrow died at Walt Disney World.
1993 - John B Connally, gov of Texas/shot with JFK in 1963, dies at 76
1994 - Boris Alexandrov, conductor (Red Army Song/Dance Ensemble, dies at 88
If you have other Birthdays or events to add for this day please E-mail me
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