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: needs more footnotes |
| 1846 – Giovanni Maria Mastai-Ferretti was elected as Pius IX; he became the longest-reigning elected pope in the history of the Catholic Church. | refimprove |
| 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. | refimprove section; date not cited |
| 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 |
| 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. | refimprove section |
| 1963 – Aboard Vostok 6, Soviet cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova became the first woman in space. | 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. | 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 |
Eligible
- 632 – The final king of the Sasanian Empire of Iran, Yazdegerd III, took the throne at the age of eight.
- 1407 – During the Ming–Hồ War, the Chinese Ming armies captured Hồ Quý Ly and his sons, thus ending the Vietnamese Hồ dynasty.
- 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.
- 1911 – The technology company IBM was founded as the Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company.
- 2010 – Bhutan became the first country to institute a total ban on tobacco.
- 2013 – A multi-day cloudburst caused severe flooding in the North Indian state of Uttarakhand, resulting in over 5,700 deaths.
- 2016 – Jo Cox, a British Member of Parliament, was murdered in her constituency.
- Born/died: Jean de Thévenot (b. 1633) · Adam Smith (b. 1723) · Tony Gwynn (d. 2014)
Notes
- Battle of Waterloo appears on June 18, so Battle of Ligny/Battle of Quatre Bras should not appear in the same year
June 16: International Surfing Day (2018)
- 1755 – After a two-week siege, the French commander of Fort Beauséjour surrendered to the British, marking the end of Father Le Loutre's War.
- 1883 – More than 180 out of 1,100 children died in the Victoria Hall stampede in Sunderland, England, when they ran down the stairs to collect gifts after a variety show.
- 1904 – Irish author James Joyce (pictured) began his relationship with Nora Barnacle, and subsequently used the date to set the actions for his 1922 novel Ulysses.
- 1960 – The thriller/horror film Psycho, directed by Alfred Hitchcock and based on a novel of the same name by Robert Bloch, was released.
- 2012 – Liu Yang became the first Chinese woman in space, as a member of the Shenzhou 9 crew.
Johannes Tauler (d. 1361) · Mary Katherine Goddard (b. 1738) · Sydney Chapman (d. 1970)