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Tuesday, 16 June 2026
1971 Ludwig Marcuse, German philosopher, dies at 77 
1972 Brian Cole, vocalist/bassist (Association), dies of overdose at 29
1973 Jean-Pierre Melville, director (Bob Le Flambeur), dies at 57
1976 Fritz Lang, director (Cloak and Dagger, Metropolis), dies at 85
1978 Carlos Chavez y Ramires, Mexican composer, dies at 79.
1979 Thurmon Munson, NY Yankee, killed in a plane crash at Akron Oh at 32
1980 Verdun John Scott, cricketer (ten Tests for NZ), dies.
1982 Cathleen Nesbitt, English actress (Separate Tables), dies at 93
1985 Frank Faylen, vaudevillian, dies of pneumonia at 79.
1986 Jackie Joyner-Kersee (US) sets record for heptathlon (7161 pts)
1986 Roy Marcus Cohn, US lawyer (Joseph McCarthy), dies.
1987 Don Brown sets flight record for handbow (1336 yds 1'3")
1987 Myron Stout, US abstract artist, dies at 79.
1990 Iraq invades Kuwait
1990 Iraq Invades Kuwait - leading to Operation Desert Storm.
1991 Funk singer Rick James, arrested on sexual torture charges.
1991 Gabriel Cohen, son of Meredith Viera and Richard Cohen.
1992 Ephraim Katz, Israeli/US encyclopedist (film encyclopedia), dies.
2005 Air France Flight 358 bursts into flames after overshooting the runway at Toronto Pearson International Airport; all aboard survive.
2012 23 people are killed after two blasts in a fruit market in Lahore, Pakistan
2013 40 people are killed after an ammunition depot explodes in Homs, Syria.
2017 inaugural successful gene editing in human embryos to repair disease-causing mutation reported by scientists in "Nature".
2017 US President Donald Trump signs legislation imposing sanctions on Russia, limiting his ability to ever lift them
2017 Great Britain's Prince Philip aged 96 makes his final solo public appearance before retiring from public engagements.
2017 New larger crypto-currency Bitcoin Cash created
2018 Apple is recorded as becoming the inaugural American public listed company to reach $1 trillion in value
2018 Fields Medal for mathematics awarded to Caucher Birkar (his stolen minutes later), Alessio Figalli, Peter Scholze and Akshay Venkatesh
2018 Pope Frances declares the death penalty unacceptable in all cases, reversing church teachings and adding to Catechism of the Roman Catholic Church
2018 Oldest library in Germany confirmed unearthed in Cologne dating to 2AD, possibly held 20000 scolls
2018 Tokyo Medical University revealed to have been tampering with female entrance exams to ensure under 30% accepted, by Japanese newspaper "Yomiuri Shimbun"
2018 Apple Inc. is recorded as becoming the world's inaugural public company to achieve a market capitalization of $1 trillion
2019 Singer songwriter Ed Sheeran 's Divide tour is recorded as becoming the most attended and highest grossing tour of all time overtaking U2 after 893 days on the road
2019 The United States officially withdraws from the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty established with Russia in 1987.
2019 Japanââ¬âSouth Korea trade dispute: Japan announces the removal of South Korea from its list of most trusted trading partners, effective on August 28
