What are the important events that happened on June 16? Here are historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.
June 16: Facts & Myths About This Day
June 16 is the 168th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 198 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Sunday.
Under the Julian calendar, this day is June 3, 2024 – a Sunday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?
When this day started, 477,360 hours has elapsed since midnight of January 1, 1970 – the Unix epoch.
Strange as it may, if we name this day after a polygon then it will be called ‘hectahexacontaoctagon’ day.
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Gemini is the zodiac sign of a person born on this day. Pearl is the modern birthstone for this month. Moonstone is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 227 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
The ancient Maya civilization believes that the end of the world will happen on December 21, 2012. There are now 4,195 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.
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June 16 Historical Events
- 1487 –Battle of Stoke Field, the final engagement of the Wars of the Roses.
- 1586 –Mary, Queen of Scots, recognizes Philip II of Spain as her heir and successor.
- 1745 –British troops take Cape Breton Island, which is now part of Nova Scotia, Canada.
- 1755 –French and Indian War: the French surrender Fort Beauséjour to the British, leading to the expulsion of the Acadians.
- 1779 –Spain declares war on the Kingdom of Great Britain, and the Great Siege of Gibraltar begins.
- 1815 –Battle of Ligny and Battle of Quatre Bras, two days before the Battle of Waterloo.
- 1940 –World War II: Marshal Henri Philippe Pétain becomes Chief of State of Vichy France (Chef de l'État Français).
- 1958 –Imre Nagy, Pál Maléter and other leaders of the 1956 Hungarian Uprising are executed.
- 1963 –Soviet Space Program: Vostok 6 Mission – Cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova becomes the first woman in space.
- 1976 –Soweto uprising: a non-violent march by 15,000 students in Soweto, South Africa turns into days of rioting when police open fire on the crowd.
Who were born on June 16?
- 1613 –John Cleveland, English poet (d. 1658)
- 1723 –Adam Smith, Scottish philosopher and economist (d. 1790)
- 1902 –Barbara McClintock, American geneticist, Nobel laureate (d. 1992)
- 1902 –George Gaylord Simpson, American paleontologist (d. 1984)
- 1929 –Pauline Yates, English actress
- 1938 –James Bolam, English actor
- 1948 –Ron LeFlore, American baseball player
- 1948 –V. Hanumantha Rao, Indian politician
- 1970 –Younus AlGohar, British spiritualist, author, poet, sufi and humanitarian
- 1978 –Daniel Brühl, German actor
Who died on June 16?
- 1778 –Konrad Ekhof, German actor (b. 1720)
- 1878 –Crawford Long, American physician (b. 1815)
- 1930 –Elmer Ambrose Sperry, American co-inventor of the gyrocompass (b. 1860)
- 1959 –George Reeves, American actor (b. 1914)
- 1967 –Reginald Denny, English stage, film, and television actor (b. 1891)
- 1977 –Wernher von Braun, German-born rocket scientist (b. 1912)
- 1979 –Ignatius Kutu Acheamphong, Ghanaian dictator (b. 1931)
- 2000 –Empress Kōjun of Japan (b. 1903)
- 2007 –Grand Ayatollah Fazel Lankarani, Iranian cleric (b. 1931)
- 2010 –Marc Bazin, Haitian politician (b. 1932)
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