About June 16
June 16, 2024 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.
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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 227 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On June 16
- 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.
- 1774 –Foundation of Harrodsburg, Kentucky.
- 1816 –Lord Byron reads Fantasmagoriana to his four house guests at the Villa Diodati, Percy Shelley, Mary Shelley, Claire Clairmont, and John Polidori, and inspires his challenge that each guest write a ghost story, which culminated in Mary Shelley writing the novel Frankenstein, John Polidori writing the short story The Vampyre, and Byron writing the poem Darkness.
- 1858 –The Battle of Morar takes place during the Indian Mutiny.
- 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).
- 1883 –The Victoria Hall theatre panic in Sunderland, England kills 183 children.
- 1903 –Roald Amundsen commences the first east-west navigation of the Northwest Passage, leaving Oslo, Norway.
- 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.
- 1915 –Foundation of the British Women’s Institute.
- 1922 –General election in the Irish Free State: the pro-Treaty Sinn Féin win a large majority.
- 1924 –The Whampoa Military Academy is founded.
- 1940 –A Communist government is installed in Lithuania.
- 1940 –World War II: Marshal Henri Philippe Pétain becomes Chief of State of Vichy France (Chef de l'État Français).
- 1961 –Rudolf Nureyev defects from the Soviet Union.
- 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.
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