About June 16

June 16, 2022 is the 167th day of the year 2022 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 198 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Thursday.

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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 220 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.
  • 1774 –
    Foundation of Harrodsburg, Kentucky.
  • 1779 –
    Spain declares war on the Kingdom of Great Britain, and the Great Siege of Gibraltar begins.
  • 1836 –
    The formation of the London Working Men’s Association gives rise to the Chartist Movement.
  • 1858 –
    The Battle of Morar takes place during the Indian Mutiny.
  • 1883 –
    The Victoria Hall theatre panic in Sunderland, England kills 183 children.
  • 1891 –
    John Abbott becomes Canada’s third Prime Minister.
  • 1897 –
    A treaty annexing the Republic of Hawaii to the United States is signed; the Republic would not be dissolved until a year later.
  • 1903 –
    Roald Amundsen commences the first east-west navigation of the Northwest Passage, leaving Oslo, Norway.
  • 1915 –
    Foundation of the British Women’s Institute.
  • 1924 –
    The Whampoa Military Academy is founded.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 1972 –
    The largest single-site hydro-electric power project in Canada is inaugurated at Churchill Falls, Labrador.
  • 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.
  • 1989 –
    Imre Nagy, the former Hungarian Prime Minister, is reburied in Budapest.
  • 1997 –
    The Dairat Labguer massacre in Algeria; 50 people are killed.

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