About June 16

June 16, 2020 is the 168th day of the year 2020 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 198 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Tuesday.

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Gemini is the sun 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 241 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.

What Happened On June 16

  • 363 –
    Emperor Julian marches back up the Tigris and burns his fleet of supply ships. During the withdrawal Roman forces suffering several attacks from the Persians.
  • 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 –
    Sir William Pepperell captures the French Fortress of Louisbourg in Louisbourg, Nova Scotia 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.
  • 1795 –
    First Battle of Groix otherwise known as “Cornwallis’ Retreat”.
  • 1836 –
    The formation of the London Working Men’s Association gives rise to the Chartist Movement.
  • 1871 –
    The University Tests Act allows students to enter the Universities of Oxford, Cambridge and Durham without religious tests (except for those intending to study theology).
  • 1891 –
    John Abbott becomes Canada’s third Prime Minister.
  • 1904 –
    Eugen Schauman assassinates Nikolai Bobrikov, Governor-General of Finland.
  • 1911 –
    A 772 gram stony meteorite strikes the earth near Kilbourn, Wisconsin damaging a barn.
  • 1911 –
    IBM founded as the Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company in Endicott, New York.
  • 1925 –
    The most famous Young Pioneer camp of the Soviet Union, Artek, is established.
  • 1930 –
    Sovnarkom establishes decree time in the USSR.
  • 1940 –
    A Communist government is installed in Lithuania.
  • 1967 –
    The Monterey Pop Festival begins
  • 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.
  • 1977 –
    Oracle Corporation is incorporated in Redwood Shores, California, as Software Development Laboratories (SDL) by Larry Ellison, Bob Miner and Ed Oates.
  • 1997 –
    The Dairat Labguer massacre in Algeria; 50 people are killed.
  • 2000 –
    Israel complies with UN Security Council Resolution 425 after 22 years of it issuance, which calls on Israel to completely withdraw from Lebanon. Israel withdraws from all of Lebanon, except the disputed Shebaa Farms.

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