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The
16t o Juin
is the 167t day o the year (168t in lowp years) in the Gregorian Calendar, wi 198 days ti come.
Events
- 632
-
Yazdegerd III
ascends tae the
throne
as king (
shah
) o the
Persie Empire
. He becomes the last ruler o the
Sassanid Dynasty
(modren
Iran
).
- 1815
-
Napoleon
haes his last veectory, defeatin a
Proushie
force in the
Battle
o Ligny.
- 1858
-
Abraham Lincoln
haulds his "Hoose Dividit" speech.
- 1891
-
John Abbott
becomes the 3rd
Prime meenister
o
Canadae
.
- 1896
- Breetish passenger steamer "Drummond Castle" collides wi a reef aff the
Breton
island o Ouessant, an sinks. Oot o 246 fowk on baird, only 3 survive.
- 1903
-
Henry Ford
founds the Ford Motor Company, wi the Ford Model A bein its first product.
- 1940
- A
Communist
govrenment is installed in
Lithuanie
.
- 1954
- The 1954
FIFA Warld Cup
in
Swisserland
stairts.
- 1954
-
Scotland
loses its first-ever
FIFA Warld Cup
gemme, 1-0, tae
Austrick
.
- 1958
- In
Hungary
, poleetical leader
Imre Nagy
is executit.
- 1960
-
Alfred Hitchcock
's film
Psycho
is released in cinemas for the first time.
- 1963
-
Valentina Tereshkova
becomes the first woman in
space
.
- 1976
- The
polis
open fire on student protests in
Soweto
,
Sooth Africae
.
- 1977
-
Leonid Brezhnev
becomes Heid o State o the
Soviet Union
.
- 1989
-
Imre Nagy
is reburied in
Budapest
, 31 year efter his execution.
- 1999
-
Japan
's heal meenistry permits the use o the contraceptive pill.
- 2001
- US Preses
George W. Bush
propales the continuation o the US embargo on
Cuba
.
- 2010
-
Bhutan
bans tobacco.
- 2012
-
Aung San Suu Kyi
collects her
Nobel Peace Prize
.
- 2015
-
Donald Trump
propales his candidacy for
Preses o the Unitit States
.
- 2016
- Breetish Member o Pairlament
Jo Cox
is murthert in her consteetuency.
- 2018
-
Iceland
becomes the least-populatit kintra tae baith score a goal an pick up a pynt in a
FIFA Warld Cup
gemme, drawin 1-1 wi
Argentinae
.
- 2019
- A massive pouer grid failur affects maist o
Argentinae
an
Uruguay
, as well as pairts o
Paraguay
.
- 2020
- 20
Indie
sodgers are kilt in a mairch clash wi the
Fowkrepublic o Cheenae
.
- 2020
-
North Korea
blows up a jynt liaison affice wi the
Sooth
.
- 2020
-
COVID-19 pandemic
:
New Zealand
reports its first twa cases in 24 days, baith o thaim importit frae the
Unitit Kinrick
.
- 2020
-
COVID-19 pandemic
: The nummer o recordit cases warldwide reaches 8 million.
Births
- 1313
-
Giovanni Boccaccio
, Italian writer (d.
1375
)
- 1723
-
Adam Smith
, Scots philosopher an economist (d.
1790
)
- 1821
-
Old Tom Morris
, Scots gowfer (d.
1908
)
- 1829
-
Geronimo
, American Apache chief (d.
1909
)
- 1858
-
Gustaf V o Swaden
(d.
1950
)
- 1874
-
Arthur Meighen
, 9t
Prime meenister
o
Canadae
(d.
1960
)
- 1882
-
Norah Neilson Gray
, Scots airtist (d.
1931
)
- 1890
-
Stan Laurel
, Inglis actor, sangster, director an screenwriter (d.
1965
)
- 1902
-
Barbara McClintock
, American geneticist (d.
1992
)
- 1911
-
Bobby Ancell
, Scots fitbawer (d.
1987
)
- 1912
-
Enoch Powell
, Inglis politeecian (d.
1998
)
- 1926
-
Jimmy Cowan
, Scots fitbawer (d.
1968
)
- 1929
-
Jimmy Bonthrone
, Scots fitbawer (d.
2008
)
- 1929
-
Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah
, Emir o
Kuwait
- 1931
-
John Grant
, Scots fitbawer
- 1937
-
Simeon Saxe-Coburg-Gotha
, King an Prime Meenister o
Bulgarie
- 1952
-
George Papandreou
, umwhile
Prime meenister
o
Greece
- 1954
-
Jamie Stone
, Scots politeecian
- 1967
-
Juergen Klopp
, German fitbawer an manager
- 1970
-
Phil Mickelson
, American gowfer
- 1971
-
Tupac Shakur
, American rapper (d.
1996
)
- 1972
-
Simon Coveney
, Erse politeecian
- 1973
-
Federica Mogherini
, Italian politeecian
- 1975
-
Gary Locke
, Scots fitbawer
- 1978
-
Daniel Bruehl
, Spaingie-German actor
- 1984
-
Steven Whittaker
, Scots fitbawer
- 1990
-
John Newman
, Inglis sangster
- 1993
-
Matthew Carder
, Scots badminton player
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