June 16th
The Liberty Bell - Philadelphia (U.S.A.)
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16th Presidend (1809-1865)
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June 16th
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| 1338 German monarch declares pope & king's decree redundant | ||
| 1487 Battle at Stoke: Henry VII beats John de la Pole & Lord Lovell | ||
| 1567 Mary, Queen of Scots, imprisoned in Lochleven Castle prison Scotland | ||
| 1624 Judge directs US colony Virginia to English crown | ||
| 1673 Peace of Vossem: Fren King Louis XIV & Frederik Willem of Brandenburg | ||
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1745 English fleet occupies Cap Breton on St Lawrence River | |
| 1746 Battle at Piacenza: Austria & Sardinia beat Spanish & French army |
The Liberty Bell - Philadelphia (U.S.A.) |
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| 1755 British capture Fort Beaus‚jour, expel Acadians | ||
| 1775 Battle of Bunker Hill (actually it is Breed's Hill) | ||
| 1775 Liberty Bell rang for the 2nd Continental Congress | ||
| 1779 In support of the US, Spain declares war on England | ||
| 1779 Vice-adm Hardy sails out of Isle of Wright against Spanish Armada | ||
| 1784 Holland forbids orange clothes | ||
| 1794 1st stone layed at Dutch biggest grain windmill (De Walvisch) | ||
| 1815 Battle at Ligny: French army under Napoleon beats Prussia | ||
| 1822 Denmark Vessy leads slave rebellion in South Carolina | ||
| 1823 King Willem I opens shipyard at Rotterdam-Antwerp | ||
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1832 Battle of Kellogg's Grove, Ill | |
| 1836 London Working Men's Assn forms | ||
| 1842 Natchex Mississippi, hit by tornado; about 500 die | ||
| 1858 U.S. Senate candidate and future president Abraham Lincoln said in a speech that the slavery issue had to be resolved, declaring, "A house divided against itself cannot stand | ||
| 1871 Ancient Arabic Order of Nobles of Mystic Shrine founded, NYC | ||
| 1880 Salvation Army forms in London | ||
| 1881 Austria-Hungary & Serbia sign military treaty | ||
| 1895 Stan Laurel, [Arthur S Jefferson], comedian (Laurel & Hardy) was born | ||
| 1897 The government signed a treaty of annexation with Hawaii | ||
| 1903 Ford Motors was incorporated | ||
| 1903 Pepsi Cola company forms | ||
| 1909 1st US airplane sold commercially, by Glenn Curtiss for $5,000 | ||
| 1913 South-African parliament forbids blacks owning land | ||
| 1917 1st Congress of Soviets convene in Russia | ||
| 1922 Henry Berliner demonstrates his helicopter to US Bureau of Aeronautics | ||
| 1931 Austrian govt of Ender falls | ||
| 1933 The National Industrial Recovery Act became law. (It was later struck down by the Supreme Court.) | ||
| 1936 Dutch queen Wilhelmina opens the Waal bridge | ||
| 1936 Pope Pius XI receives Anton Mussert (Dutch Nazi collaborator) | ||
| 1940 Communist govt installed in Lithuania | ||
| 1940 General De Gaulle arrives in Bordeaux | ||
| 1944 Iceland adopts constitution | ||
| 1944 King Edward VI visits Montgomery's HQ in Normandy | ||
| 1944 US bombs Kyushu Japan | ||
| 1947 Pravda denounces Marshall Plan | ||
| 1949 Gas turbine-electric locomotive demonstrated, Erie Pa | ||
| 1952 Soviet Fighters shoot Swedish Catalina reconnaissance flight down | ||
| 1955 Pope Pius the 12th excommunicated Argentine President Juan Domingo Peron -- a ban that was lifted eight years later | ||
| 1957 French offensive in Algeria | ||
| 1958 Govt troops land on North-Celebes Indonesia | ||
| 1961 Soviet ballet dancer Rudolf Nureyev defected to the West while his troupe was in Paris. | ||
| 1963 The world's first female space traveler, Valentina Tereshkova, was launched into orbit by the Soviet Union aboard "Vostok Six." | ||
| 1964 Amnesty granted to 3,000 political prisoners | ||
| 1964 Quake strikes Niigata Japan | ||
| 1970 Kenneth A. Gibson of Newark, New Jersey, became the first black to win a mayoral election in a major Northeast city. | ||
| 1978 President Jimmy Carter and Panamanian leader Omar Torrijos exchanged the instruments of ratification for the Panama Canal treaties. | ||
| 1980 Supreme Court rules new forms of life created in labs could be patents | ||
| 1982 Britain requests Argentina arrange for return of prisoners | ||
| 1983 European Space Agency launches European Comm Satellite 1, Oscar 10 | ||
| 1983 Pope John Paul II visits Poland | ||
| 1983 USSR party leader Yuri Andropov elected president | ||
| 1984 Edwin Moses wins his 100th consecutive 400-meter hurdles race | ||
| 1986 1 day general strike in South Africa | ||
| 1991 Boris Yeltsin elected president of Russian SSR | ||
| 1995 Salt Lake City awarded the XIX Winter Olympics in 2002 | ||
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