Historical Events In June - 16

1952  Soviet Fighters shoot Swedish Catalina reconnaissance flight down on this day in history.  

1952  Anne Frank: Diary of a Young Girl is published in the United States on this day in history.  

1953  On this day in history despite Johnny Mize 2,000th hit, Yanks lose ending 18 game win streak & also ending St Louis Brown 14 game losing streak  

1954  On June - 16 dutch military conscription shortened from 20 to 18 months  

1955  Pope Pius XII ex-communicated Argentine Pres Juan Peron on June - 16.  

1955  Louise Suggs wins LPGA Triangle Round Robin Golf Tournament on June - 16.  

1958  Jose Pablo Moncayo Garcia, composer, dies at 45 on June - 16.  

1959  George Reeves, actor (Superman, Gone with the Wind), shoots self at 45 on June - 16.  

1961  On June - 16 ballet performer Rudolf Nureyev defects from the Soviet Union while in Paris.  

1961  Dave Garroway is fired as Today Show host on this day in history.  

1961  Soviet ballet dancer Rudolf Nureyev defects to West in Paris on this day in history.  

1961  O C Scott, cricketer (WI leg-spinner in 8 Tests), dies on this day in history.  

1963  Levi Eshkol replaces David Ben-Gurion as Israeli PM on this day in history.  

1963  Valentina Tereshkova becomes first woman in space, aboard Vostok 6 on this day in history.  

1963  J C Powys, writer, dies at 90 on this day in history.  

1964  On this day in history quake strikes Niigata Japan  

1967  On June - 16 50,000 attend Monterey International Pop Festival  

1969  On June - 16 supreme Court rules suspension of Adam Clayton Powell Jr from House  

1969  On this day in history harold RLG 1st Earl Alexander of Tunis, Brit field marshal, dies at 78  

1970  Kenneth A Gibson elected first black mayor of Newark, NJ on June - 16.  

1970  Race riots in Miami Florida on this day in history.  

1970  On this day in history elsa Triolet, writer, dies at 73  

1971  Racial disturbance in Jacksonville Florida on June - 16.  

1972  On June - 16 burglars caught inside the Watergate building  

1975  On June - 16 randy Farland finds a 14-leaf clover near Sioux Falls, SD  

1975  Don Robey, US gospel/impresario/producer, dies at 71 on this day in history.  

1976  Student uprisings begin in Soweto, South Africa on this day in history.  

1976  On June - 16 francis E Meloy Jr, US ambassador to Lebanon, kidnapped & killed  

1977  On this day in history "Beatlemania" opens on Broadway  

1977  On this day in history leonid Brezhnev is named president of the Soviet Union.  

1977  Wernher von Braun, rocket scientist, dies at age 65 on June - 16.  

1977  On this day in history wernher von Braun, rocket scientist (V1/V2), dies at 65 of smoking  

1978  On June - 16 ringo releases "Bad Boy" album; Wings releases "I've Had Enough"  

1979  Carl Yastrzemski hits his 1,000th extra base hit on this day in history.  

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1139  Emperor Konoe of Japan (d. 1155) was born on June - 16.  

1332  Isabella de Coucy, English princess (d. 1382) was born on this day in history.  

1514  John Cheke, English classical scholar (d. 1557) was born on June - 16.  

1583  Axel Gustafson Oxenstierna, Swedish earl/chancellor/regent was born on June - 16.  

1591  On June - 16 birth of joseph Solomon Delmedigo, Italian physician, mathematician, and music theorist (d. 1655)  

1606  Arthur Chichester, 1st Earl of Donegall, Irish soldier (d. 1675) was born on this day in history.  

1613  John Cleveland, English poet (d. 1658) was born on this day in history.  

1633  On this day in history birth of nathaniel Schnittelbach, composer  

0956  Hugo, the Great, duke of France, dies on this day in history.  

1216  On June - 16 innocent III, pope, dies at 54  

1246  On June - 16 lutgardis/Ludgardis, Flemish mystic/saint, dies at about 64  

1361  On this day in history john Tauler, German mystic (Gottesfreunde) dies at about 61  

1397  Death of Philip of Artois, Count of Eu, French soldier (b. 1358) on June - 16.  

1468  On June - 16 death of jean Le Fevre, Burgundian chronicler (b. ca. 1395)  

1492  On June - 16 death of jan Coppenhole, Flemish rebel leader, beheaded  

1575  Hadrianus Junius, [Adriaen the Jonghe], medical/historian, dies at 63 on this day in history.