About June 16
June 16, 2023 is the 167th day of the year 2023 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 198 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Friday.
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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 239 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 –British troops take Cape Breton Island, which is now part of Nova Scotia, Canada.
- 1745 –Sir William Pepperell captures the French Fortress of Louisbourg in Louisbourg, Nova Scotia during the War of the Austrian Succession.
- 1755 –French and Indian War: the French surrender Fort Beauséjour to the British, leading to the expulsion of the Acadians.
- 1846 –The Papal conclave of 1846 concludes. Pope Pius IX is elected Pope beginning the longest reign in the history of the papacy (not counting St. Peter).
- 1858 –Abraham Lincoln delivers his House Divided speech in Springfield, Illinois.
- 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 –The Ford Motor Company is incorporated.
- 1904 –Eugen Schauman assassinates Nikolai Bobrikov, Governor-General of Finland.
- 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.
- 1961 –Rudolf Nureyev defects from the Soviet Union.
- 1963 –Soviet Space Program: Vostok 6 Mission – Cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova becomes the first woman in space.
- 1972 –Red Army Faction member Ulrike Meinhof is captured by police in Langenhagen.
- 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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