Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/June 16
This is a list of selected June 16 anniversaries that appear in the "On this day" section of the Main Page. To suggest a new item, in most cases, you can be bold and edit this page. Please read the selected anniversaries guidelines before making your edit. However, if your addition might be controversial or on a day that is or will soon be on the Main Page, please post your suggestion on the talk page instead.
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Ineligible
| Blurb | Reason |
|---|---|
| Bloomsday | refimprove section |
| ; Youth Day in South Africa | multiple issues |
| 1487 – Lancastrian forces defeated Yorkist supporters at the Battle of Stoke Field in East Stoke, Nottinghamshire, England, the final battle of the Wars of the Roses. | refimprove section |
| 1745 – King George's War: British colonial forces led by William Pepperrell captured the French stronghold at Fortress Louisbourg on Cape Breton Island after a six-week siege. | Fortress: refimprove section; Siege: refimprove |
| 1815 – Napoleonic Wars: French forces under Napoleon defeated Blücher's larger Prussian army in the Battle of Ligny, while Michel Ney earned a strategic victory against the Anglo-Dutch army in the Battle of Quatre Bras. | Ligny: refimprove section |
| 1846 – Giovanni Maria Mastai-Ferretti was elected as Pius IX; he became the longest-reigning elected pope in the history of the Catholic Church. | lots of CN tags (14) |
| 1858 – United States Senate candidate Abraham Lincoln delivered his "House Divided Speech" in Springfield, Illinois, referring to the division of the country between slave states and free states as "A house divided against itself cannot stand". | mostly full of quotations |
| 1903 – Ford Motor Company was founded in Detroit, Michigan, by Henry Ford, Alexander Y. Malcomson, and a group of investors to assemble automobiles. | lots of CN tags (7) |
| 1924 – The Whampoa Military Academy officially opened under the Kuomintang in the Republic of China. | refimprove |
| 1958 – Imre Nagy and other leaders of the failed Hungarian Revolution of 1956 were executed following secret trials. | refimprove section |
| 1967 – The Monterey Pop Festival rock festival, the venue for the first major American performances by the Jimi Hendrix Experience, The Who, and Ravi Shankar, began in Monterey, California. | refimprove section |
| 1976 – Police in Soweto opened fire on schoolchildren protesting against the imposition of Afrikaans as a medium of instruction in township schools, triggering a series of nationwide demonstrations, strikes, riots and violence. | expansion, unreferenced section |
| 2000 – Israel complied with the UN Security Council Resolution 425 after 22 years of its issuance, withdrawing from all of Lebanon except the disputed Shebaa farms. | saved for March 19 |
| * 2010 – The Tobacco Control Act of Bhutan came into force, banning the sale and production of tobacco in the country. | Tagged for update |
| * 1961 – Pioneering Russian ballet dancer Rudolf Nureyev defected from the Soviet Union at Paris–Le Bourget Airport with the help of French police and a Parisian socialite friend. | Undercited |
| * 2013 – A cloudburst caused severe flooding in the northern Indian state of Uttarakhand, continuing for several days and resulting in over 5,700 deaths. | undercited |
Eligible
- 1407 – Ming forces conquered Đại Ngu in modern-day northern Vietnam, capturing Hồ dynasty emperor Hồ Quý Ly and bringing the country under Chinese rule.
- 1632 – The Plymouth Company granted a land patent to Thomas Purchase, who became the first permanent European settler of Pejepscot, Maine.
- 1755 – After a two-week siege, the French commander of Fort Beauséjour in present-day New Brunswick, Canada, surrendered to British forces, marking the end of Father Le Loutre's War.
- 1883 – In the Victoria Hall disaster, 183 children were crushed to death when they ran down the stairs to collect gifts after a variety show in Sunderland, England.
- 1911 – The technology company IBM was founded as the Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company in Endicott, New York.
- 1960 – Psycho, a psychological horror film directed by Alfred Hitchcock (pictured) and based on a novel of the same name by Robert Bloch, premiered.
- 1963 – Aboard Vostok 6, Soviet cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova (pictured) became the first woman in space.
- 1972 – English musician David Bowie released his breakthrough album, The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars.
- 2012 – Liu Yang (pictured), a member of the Shenzhou 9 crew, became the first Chinese woman in space.
- 2016 – Jo Cox, a British Member of Parliament, was murdered in her constituency.
- Born/died: | Johannes Tauler |d|1361| John Cheke |b|1514| Yang Jisheng |b|1516| Jean de Thévenot |b|1633| James Bertie, 1st Earl of Abingdon |b|1653| Tomás Yepes |d|1674| Adam Smith |b|1723| Mary Katharine Goddard |b|1738| William Lawson |d|1850| Mohammad Mosaddegh|b|1882| Helen Traubel |b|1899| Barbara McClintock |b|1902| Bazil Assan |d|1918| Margaret Bondfield|d|1953| Sydney Chapman |d|1970| Tupac Shakur|b|1971|Mel Allen |d|1996| Tony Gwynn |d|2014| Helmut Kohl |d|2017
Notes
- Battle of Waterloo appears on June 18, so Battle of Ligny/Battle of Quatre Bras should not appear in the same year
- Jimi Hendrix appears on June 18, so Monterey Pop Festival should not appear in the same year
June 16: First day of Eid al-Adha (Islam, 2024)
James Joyce
- 632 – The final king of the Sasanian Empire of Iran, Yazdegerd III, ascended the throne at the age of eight.
- 1819 – A strong earthquake in the Kutch district of Gujarat, India, caused a local zone of uplift that dammed the Nara River, which was later named the Allah Bund ('Dam of God').
- 1904 – Irish author James Joyce (pictured) began a relationship with Nora Barnacle, and subsequently used the date to set the actions for his 1922 novel Ulysses, commemorated as Bloomsday.
- 1936 – A Junkers Ju 52 aircraft of Norwegian Air Lines crashed into a mountainside near Hyllestad, Norway, killing all seven people on board.
- 1997 – The English rock band Radiohead released their landmark third album OK Computer in the United Kingdom.
- John Cheke (b. 1514)
- Tomás Yepes (d. 1674)
- Helen Traubel (b. 1899)
- Tony Gwynn (d. 2014)