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This day in history: 16 June

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Key facts

393 historical events, births and deaths are listed for 16 June.
Entries come from Wikipedia’s day pages and are ordered by page views.
2019: Upwards of 2,000,000 people participate in the 2019–20 Hong Kong protests, the largest in Hong Kong's history.

Holidays and observances

Aurelianus of Arles

Aureus of Mainz (and his sister Justina)

Birthday of Leonard P. Howell (Rastafari)

Blessed Maria Katherina Scherer

Bloomsday (Dublin, Ireland)

Curig of Llanbadarn

Cyricus and Julitta

Engineer's Day (Argentina)

Father's Day (Seychelles)

Ferreolus and Ferrutio

Events

2019Upwards of 2,000,000 people participate in the 2019–20 Hong Kong protests, the largest in Hong Kong's history.

2016Shanghai Disneyland Park, the first Disney Park in mainland China, opens to the public.

2015American businessman Donald Trump announces his campaign to run for President of the United States in the upcoming election.

2013A multi-day cloudburst, centered on the North Indian state of Uttarakhand, causes devastating floods and landslides, becoming the country's worst natural disaster since the 2004 tsunami.

2012China successfully launches its Shenzhou 9 spacecraft, carrying three astronauts, including the first female Chinese astronaut Liu Yang, to the Tiangong-1 orbital module.

2012The United States Air Force's robotic Boeing X-37B spaceplane returns to Earth after a classified 469-day orbital mission.

2010Bhutan becomes the first country to institute a total ban on tobacco.

2002Padre Pio is canonized by the Roman Catholic Church.

2000The Secretary-General of the UN reports that Israel has complied with United Nations Security Council Resolution 425, 22 years after its issuance, and completely withdrawn from Lebanon. The Resolution does not encompass the Shebaa farm

1997Fifty people are killed in the Daïat Labguer (M'sila) massacre in Algeria.

1995The Astronomy Picture of the Day website is launched.{{cite web

1989Revolutions of 1989: Imre Nagy, the former Hungarian prime minister, is reburied in Budapest following the collapse of Communism in Hungary.

1981US President Ronald Reagan awards the Congressional Gold Medal to Ken Taylor, Canada's former ambassador to Iran, for helping six Americans escape from Iran during the hostage crisis of 1979–81; he is the first foreign citizen bestowed the

1977Oracle Corporation is incorporated in Redwood Shores, California, as Software Development Laboratories (SDL), by Larry Ellison, Bob Miner and Ed Oates.

1976Soweto uprising: A non-violent march by 15,000 students in Soweto, South Africa, turns into days of rioting when police open fire on the crowd.

1972The largest single-site hydroelectric power project in Canada is inaugurated at Churchill Falls Generating Station.

1963In an attempt to resolve the Buddhist crisis in South Vietnam, a Joint Communique is signed between President Ngo Dinh Diem and Buddhist leaders.

1963Soviet Space Program: Vostok 6 mission: Cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova becomes the first woman in space.

1961While on tour with the Kirov Ballet in Paris, Rudolf Nureyev defects from the Soviet Union.

1958Imre Nagy, Pál Maléter and other leaders of the 1956 Hungarian Uprising are executed.

1955In a futile effort to topple Argentine President Juan Perón, rogue aircraft pilots of the Argentine Navy drop several bombs upon an unarmed crowd demonstrating in favor of Perón in Buenos Aires, killing 364 and injuring at least 800. At the

1948Members of the Malayan Communist Party kill three British plantation managers in Sungai Siput; in response, British Malaya declares a state of emergency.

1940The Soviet Union occupies Lithuania, which will eventually become the Lithuanian Soviet Socialist Republic (SSR).

1940World War II: Marshal Henri Philippe Pétain becomes Chief of State of Vichy France (Chef de l'État Français).

1933The National Industrial Recovery Act is passed in the United States, allowing businesses to avoid antitrust prosecution if they establish voluntary wage, price, and working condition regulations on an industry-wide basis.

1930Sovnarkom establishes decree time in the USSR.

1925Artek, the most famous Young Pioneer camp of the Soviet Union, is established.

1922General election in the Irish Free State: The pro-Treaty Sinn Féin party wins a large majority.

1911IBM founded as the Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company in Endicott, New York.

1904Eugen Schauman assassinates Nikolay Bobrikov, Governor-General of Finland.

1904Irish author James Joyce begins a relationship with Nora Barnacle and subsequently uses the date to set the actions for his novel Ulysses; this date is now traditionally called "Bloomsday".

1903Roald Amundsen leaves Oslo, Norway, to commence the first east–west navigation of the Northwest Passage.

1903The Ford Motor Company is incorporated.

1897A treaty annexing the Republic of Hawaii to the United States is signed; the Republic would not be dissolved until a year later.

1884The first purpose-built roller coaster, LaMarcus Adna Thompson's "Switchback Railway", opens in New York's Coney Island amusement park.

1883The Victoria Hall theatre panic in Sunderland, England, kills 183 children.

1871The Universities Tests Act 1871 allows students to enter the universities of Oxford, Cambridge and Durham without religious tests (except for those intending to study theology).

1858Abraham Lincoln delivers his House Divided speech in Springfield, Illinois.

1846The Papal conclave of 1846 elects Pope Pius IX, beginning the longest reign in the history of the papacy.

1836The formation of the London Working Men's Association gives rise to the Chartist Movement.

Born on this day

2003Anna Cathcart, Canadian actress

2002Sam Walker, English-Australian rugby league player

2000Bianca Andreescu, Canadian tennis player

1999Ibrahima Koné, Malian footballer

1999Justin Jefferson, American football player

1999Snail Mail, American singer-songwriter

1998Karman Thandi, Indian tennis player

1995Akira Ioane, New Zealand rugby Union player

1995Euan Aitken, Australian rugby league player

1995Joseph Schooling, Singaporean swimmer

1995Ki Hui-hyeon, South Korean singer-songwriter and actress

1994Rezar, Albanian wrestler

1993Gnash, American singer, songwriter, rapper, DJ and record producer

1993Park Bo-gum, South Korean actor

1992Maik Brückner, German politician

1992Vladimir Morozov, Russian swimmer

1991Joe McElderry, English singer-songwriter

1991Matt Moylan, Australian rugby league player

1991Siya Kolisi, South African rugby player

1990John Newman, English musician, singer, songwriter and record producer

1989Odion Ighalo, Nigerian footballer

1988Jermaine Gresham, American football player

1988Keshia Chanté, Canadian singer

1987Ali Stroker, American actress

1987Christian Tshimanga Kabeya, Belgian footballer

1987Diana DeGarmo, American singer-songwriter and actress

1987Per Ciljan Skjelbred, Norwegian footballer

1986Fernando Muslera, Uruguayan footballer

1986Rodrigo Defendi, Brazilian footballer

1986Urby Emanuelson, Dutch footballer

1984Dan Ryckert, American writer and entertainer

1984Rick Nash, Canadian ice hockey player

1984Steven Whittaker, Scottish footballer

1983Armend Dallku, Albanian footballer

1983Olivia Hack, American actress

1982May Andersen, Danish model and actress

1982Missy Peregrym, Canadian model and actress

1981Alexandre Giroux, Canadian ice hockey player

1981Benjamin Becker, German tennis player

1981Kevin Bieksa, Canadian ice hockey player

Died on this day

2026Daveigh Chase, American actress

2025Kim Woodburn, English television personality and expert cleaner

2024Barbara Gladstone, American art dealer and film producer

2024Ludwig Adamovich Jr., Austrian constitutional scholar

2023Gino Mäder, Swiss cyclist

2022Tyler Sanders, American actor

2021Frank Bonner, American actor and television director

2020Eduardo Cojuangco Jr., Filipino businessman and politician

2017Helmut Kohl, German politician, Chancellor of Germany

2016Jo Cox, English political activist and MP

2015Charles Correa, Indian architect and urban planner

2015Jean Vautrin, French director, screenwriter, and critic

2014Cándido Muatetema Rivas (born 1960), Equatoguinean politician and diplomat, Prime Minister of Equatorial Guinea

2014Tony Gwynn, American baseball player and coach

2013Hans Hass, Austrian biologist and diver

2013Khondakar Ashraf Hossain, Bangladesh poet and academic

2013Norman Ian MacKenzie, English journalist and author

2013Ottmar Walter, German footballer

2013Sam Farber, American businessman, co-founded OXO

2012Jorge Lankenau, Mexican banker and businessman

2012Nils Karlsson, Swedish skier

2012Sławomir Petelicki, Polish general

2012Susan Tyrrell, American actress

2011Östen Mäkitalo, Swedish engineer and academic

2010Marc Bazin, Haitian lawyer and politician, 49th President of Haiti

2010Maureen Forrester, Canadian singer and academic

2010Ronald Neame, English director, producer, cinematographer, and screenwriter

2008Mario Rigoni Stern, Italian soldier and author

2005Enrique Laguerre, Puerto Rican-American author and critic

2004Jacques Miquelon, Canadian lawyer and judge

Quote of the day

“Hang on to your youthful enthusiasms; you will be able to use them better when you are older.”

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