SomeFacts | June 16

On this day - June 16

632 — Yazdegerd III ascends the throne as king (shah) of the Persian ...

1407 — Ming–Hồ War: Retired King Hồ Quý Ly and his son King Hồ Hán ...

1487 — Battle of Stoke Field: King Henry VII of England defeats the ...

1632 — The Plymouth Company granted a land patent to Thomas Purchase, ...

1745 — War of the Austrian Succession: New England colonial troops ...

1746 — War of the Austrian Succession: Austria and Sardinia defeat a ...

1755 — French and Indian War: The French surrender Fort Beauséjour to ...

1760 — French and Indian War: Robert Rogers and his Rangers surprise ...

1779 — American Revolutionary War: Spain declares war on the Kingdom ...

1795 — French Revolutionary Wars: In what became known as ...

1811 — Survivors of an attack the previous day by Tla-o-qui-aht on ...

1815 — Battle of Ligny and Battle of Quatre Bras, two days before the ...

1819 — A major earthquake strikes the Kutch district of western ...

1824 — A meeting at Old Slaughter's coffee house in London leads ...

1836 — The formation of the London Working Men's Association ...

1846 — The Papal conclave of 1846 elects Pope Pius IX, beginning the ...

1858 — Abraham Lincoln delivers his House Divided speech in ...

1871 — The Universities Tests Act 1871 allows students to enter the ...

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

1884 — The first purpose-built roller coaster, LaMarcus Adna ...

1897 — A treaty annexing the Republic of Hawaii to the United States ...

1903 — Roald Amundsen leaves Oslo, Norway, to commence the first ...

1903 — The Ford Motor Company is incorporated.

1904 — Irish author James Joyce begins a relationship with Nora ...

1904 — Eugen Schauman assassinates Nikolay Bobrikov, Governor-General ...

1911 — IBM founded as the Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company in ...

1922 — General election in the Irish Free State: The pro-Treaty Sinn ...

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

1930 — Sovnarkom establishes decree time in the USSR.

1933 — The National Industrial Recovery Act is passed in the United ...

1940 — The Soviet Union occupies Lithuania, which will eventually ...

1940 — World War II: Marshal Henri Philippe Pétain becomes Chief of ...

1948 — Members of the Malayan Communist Party kill three British ...

1955 — In a futile effort to topple Argentine President Juan Perón, ...

1958 — Imre Nagy, Pál Maléter and other leaders of the 1956 Hungarian ...

1961 — While on tour with the Kirov Ballet in Paris, Rudolf Nureyev ...

1963 — In an attempt to resolve the Buddhist crisis in South Vietnam, ...

1963 — Soviet Space Program: Vostok 6 mission: Cosmonaut Valentina ...

1972 — The largest single-site hydroelectric power project in Canada ...

1976 — Soweto uprising: A non-violent march by 15,000 students in ...

1977 — Oracle Corporation is incorporated in Redwood Shores, ...

1981 — US President Ronald Reagan awards the Congressional Gold Medal ...

1989 — Revolutions of 1989: Imre Nagy, the former Hungarian prime ...

1995 — The Astronomy Picture of the Day website is launched.

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

2000 — The Secretary-General of the UN reports that Israel has ...

2002 — Padre Pio is canonized by the Roman Catholic Church.

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

2012 — The United States Air Force's robotic Boeing X-37B ...

2012 — China successfully launches its Shenzhou 9 spacecraft, ...

2013 — A multi-day cloudburst, centered on the North Indian state of ...

2015 — American businessman Donald Trump announces his campaign to ...

2016 — Shanghai Disneyland Park, the first Disney Park in mainland ...

2019 — Upwards of 2,000,000 people participate in the 2019–20 Hong ...