June 16

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

Events

1487 - Battle of Stoke Field, the last dying breath of the Wars of the Roses
1586 - Mary Queen of Scots recognizes Philip II of Spain as her heir
1654 - Queen Christina of Sweden abdicates
1745 - British troops take Cape Breton Island at the mouth of the Saint Lawrence River
1745 - Sir William Pepperell captures the French fortress of Louisburg during the War of the Austrian Succession.
1746 - War of Austrian Succession: Austria and Sardinia defeat a Franco-Spanish army at the Battle of Piacenza
1755 - French and Indian War: French surrender Fort Beaus�jour to the British, leading to the expulsion of the Acadians
1774 - Formation of Harrodsburg, Kentucky.
1779 - Spain declares war on Britain and the siege of Gibraltar begins
1815 - Battle of Ligny and Battle of Quatre Bras, two days before Waterloo.
1836 - Formation of the London Working Men's Association begins the Chartist Movement
1858 - Abraham Lincoln's House Divided speech in Springfield, Illinois
1858 - Battle of Morar, during the Indian Mutiny.
1871 - University Tests Act allow students to enter the Universities of Oxford, Cambridge and Durham without religious tests, except for courses in theology.
1884 - The first roller coaster in the United States begins operation at Coney Island, New York
1891 - John Abbott becomes Canada's third prime minister
1903 - Ford motor company incorporates
1915 - foundation of the British Women's Institute
1922 - General election in Irish Free State: large majority to pro-Treaty Sinn Fein
1924 - Whampoa Military Academy is founded
1940 - World War II: Marshal [[Henri Philippe P�tain]] becomes Premier of Vichy France
1940 - A Communist government is installed in Lithuania
1955 - Pope Pius XII excommunicates [[Juan Per�n]]
1956 - Ted Hughes marries Sylvia Plath
1961 - Rudolf Nureyev defects at Le Bourget airport in Paris
1963 - Valentina Tereshkova becomes the first woman in space
1966 - The United States Supreme Court hands down its decision in Miranda v. Arizona
1972 - Burglars are caught breaking into the United States Democratic Party headquarters in the Watergate building
1972 - Red Army Faction member Ulrike Meinhof is captured by police in Langenhagen.
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
1977 - Leonid Brezhnev becomes president of the USSR
1981 - Ken Taylor honoured for helping six Americans escape from Iran during hostage crisis
1983 - Yuri Andropov becomes president of the USSR
1994 - A Chinese operated Northwest Airlines Tupolev TU-154 crashes 10 minutes after takeoff killing 160
1996 - First round of voting in the Russian presidential election
1999 - Thabo Mbeki elected President of South Africa
2002 - Politically Incorrect is cancelled (from sponsors dropping the show) after host Bill Maher makes controversial comments on air regarding the integrity of President George W. Bush.