June 16

June 16 is the 167th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (168th in leap years), with 198 days remaining.

Events

• 1884 - The first roller coaster in the United States begins operation at Coney Island, New York
• 1924 - Whampoa Military Academy is founded
• 1940 - World War II: Marshal[?] Henri Philippe Pétain becomes Premier of Vichy France
• 1940 - A Communist government is installed in Lithuania
• 1955 - Pope Pius XII excommunicates Juan Perón
• 1963 - Valentina Tereshkova becomes the first woman in space
• 1966 - The United States Supreme Court hands down its decision in Miranda v. Arizona
• 1972 - Opening of the New York Jazz Museum[?]
• 1972 - Largest single-site hydro-electric power project starts at Churchill Falls[?] Newfoundland
• 1976 - Student riots in Soweto, South Africa
• 1981 - Ken Taylor[?] honoured for helping six Americans escape from Iran during hostage crisis

Births

• 1829 - Geronimo, Apache warrior and leader (+ 1909)
• 1840 - Ernst Otto Schlick[?], engineer (+ 1913)
• 1858 - King Gustav V of Sweden (+ 1950)
• 1874 - Arthur Meighen, ninth Prime Minister of Canada (+ 1960)
• 1890 - Stan Laurel, actor, comedian (+ 1965)
• 1902 - Barbara McClintock, geneticist (+ 1992)
• 1907 - Jack Albertson, actor (+ 1981)
• 1912 - Enoch Powell, British politician (+ 1998)
• 1914 - Babe Didrikson Zaharias[?], athlete (+ 1956)
• 1916 - Hank Luisetti[?], baseball player (+ 2002)
• 1917 - Katharine Graham[?], Washington Post publisher
• 1917 - Irvin Penn[?], photographer
• 1927 - Herbert Lichtenfeld[?], author and playwright (+ 2001)
• 1930 - Vilmos Zsigmond[?], cinematographer
• 1937 - Erich Segal[?], author
• 1938 - Joyce Carol Oates[?], novelist
• 1941 - Lamont Dozier[?], record company executive
• 1951 - Roberto Durán[?], boxer
• 1952 - Gino Vannelli[?], vocalist, songwriter
• 1971 - Tupac Shakur, musician (+ 1996)

Deaths

• 1940 - DuBose Heyward[?], writer
• 1958 - Imre Nagy, former Premier of Hungary[?]
• 1959 - George Reeves, actor, played Superman
• 1970 - Brian Piccolo[?], American football player
• 1977 - Wernher von Braun, rocket scientist
• 1979 - Vernon Presley[?], father of Elvis Presley
• 1996 - Mel Allen[?], baseball announcer
• 1999 - Screaming Lord Sutch, founder of Britain's Official Monster Raving Loony Party

Holidays and observances

• South Africa - Youth Day[?]
• Bloomsday, in honour of James Joyce's Ulysses

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