June 16th

The June 16th is the 167e Jour of the Année (168e in the event of Leap year) of the Gregorian Calendrier.

Since 1991, on June 16th is the Journée of the African child.

Events

1 to 1900

  • 632 : Beginning of the Persian era ( Yezdegird )

  • 877: Signature with Quierzy-on-Oise, by the emperor Charles the Bald person, of the Capitulary of Quierzy temporarily establishing heredity in the fields and the loads for the descendants of the noble parties in Italy with him; he is sometimes regarded as the beginning of the Féodalité.
  • 1269 : Marriage of Richard king of the Romans, with Beatrice de Falkenburg
  • 1453: Philippe the Good, duke of Burgundy offers the seigniory of Beaumont to Antoine de Croÿ of compensation for the financial participation of this one to the war which it delivered to the Gantois. Unfortunately, Antoine could enjoy his seigniory only in 1472 because it was confiscated by the count de Charolais (the future Charles Bold the).
  • 1487 : Henri VII of England demolishes John of the Pole and Lord Lovell at the time of the Bataille of Stoke which puts an end to the Guerre Two-Pinks between the families of York and Lancaster of England
  • 1567: Marie Stuart, queen of Scotland, is imprisoned in Lochleven Castle in Scotland
  • 1624: A judge English orders that the American colony of Virginia is possession of the English crown
  • 1654: The queen Christine of Sweden abdicates her throne in favor of her cousin Charles Gustave, to devote itself to the religion and art
  • 1659: Louis XIV king de France decides to grant subsidies to the emigrants who move towards the Canada to settle there
  • 1703: With Quebec, in News-France the sovereign Council reorganizes and becomes the Superior council
  • 1716: Publication of the first volume of the translation of “Lliad” of Alexander Pope
  • 1726: The French Jean Bouillet sior of Chassaigne, is named governor of Montreal in News-France
  • 1745: The British troops draw 9.000 balls from gun against the Fort Louisbourg, in Nova Scotia (in Canada), before succeeding in overcoming the French
  • 1815: The troops of Napoleon Bonaparte gain an important victory with Ligny in Belgium against the Prussian troops , last victory before Waterloo.
  • 1822 : Denmark Vessy causes a rebellion of the slaves in South Carolina, but when its plans are revealed by a traitor it is stopped with 67 of its partisans and is hung with 30 other slaves.
  • 1828 : Alternate of Manual Parra, Spanish Matador .
  • 1832 :
    • Début of the “Bataille from Kellogg's Grove” in Illinois
    • the town of Prescott becomes the first city of Upper Canada to being struck by the Asian Choléra which would have been brought by the passengers of a ship of Irish immigrants coming from Europe
  • 1842: A tornado strikes Natchez with the the Mississippi and keep silent 500 people.
  • 1869 : With Ricamarie (the Loire), the troop shoots at minors in strike making 14 died and of tens of casualties.
  • 1873 : The President of the United States Ulysses Simpson Grant grants to the territory of Wallowa Valley to the Indian nation Pierced-nose Indian
  • 1879
    • First representation of the play HMS Pinafore of Gilbert and Sullivan, to New York
    • the government of Newfoundland grants a contract for the construction of a railroad between Placenta Junction and the bay Hall
  • 1883: Left the first number of the Cross.
  • 1891 : John Joseph Caldwell Abott is elected chief of the conservative party of Canada and becomes the 3rd Prime Minister for the Canada
  • 1893: R.W. Rueckheim invents Cracker Jack popcorn snack bar, in the United States
  • 1896:
    • Opening of the national convention of the Republican party from the United States in Saint-Louis with the Minnesota
    • Temperature in Strong Mojave in California = 52,7° Centigrade (127° F).
  • 1897 :
    • Début of the gold rush in Alaska
    • the government of the United States signs a treaty of annexation with Hawaii.

War of Independence of the United States

  • 1775
    • the “bell of freedom” sounds for the call of the second “Continental Congress” of the the United States
    • colonel Richard Gridley is named ingénier chief of “Continental Army” of the United States
  • 1776
    • the Americans, who occupied Montreal since previous spring, go back to the United States.
    • the Spain declares the war with the Great Britain in favor of the United States.

American Civil War (the United States)

  • 1858 : At the time of the electoral campaign with Springfield in the Illinois, for the station of President of the United States, Abraham Lincoln makes her famous speech “has house divided against itself boat stand” concerning the situation of the Esclavage in the United States.
  • 1864 :
    • Beginning of the battle of Lynchburg in Virginia
    • First attack of Petersburg in Virginia by the troops of the unionistic general Ulysses Simpson Grant against the confederated lines of defense.
    • the unionistic general Ulysses Simpson Grant begins the “head office of Petersburg and Richmond” in Virginia, with the assistance of 32 regiments Afro-Americans of infantry and cavalry
    • the first soldiers of the confederated army of the general Robert E. Lee cross the river Potomac

War of 1812 of the United States

20th century

  • 1901 :

    • a group of demonstrators Macedonians to Sofia require the independence of the Bulgaria of the Turkey
    • a train in record time makes the voyage from New York with Chicago 20 hours
  • 1903:
    • Creation of the Ford Motor Company with Strait (the United States)
    • Recording with the the United States of brand name “Pepsi-Cola”, one year after the opening of its manufacture
  • 1907:
  • 1914: The first plungers go down in the St. Lawrence river to Holy-Luce-On-Sea to Quebec to go up off the bodies of the ship shipwrecked man RMS Empress Ireland
  • 1923: Sun Yat-SEN founds the Military academy of Huangpu, in the surroundings of Canton, with the assistance of the Soviet Union
  • 1932: The prince of Wales is selected like the best dancer of the world
  • 1940:
  • 1944 : Second world war:
    • Japanese submarine HIJMS RO-44 is cast close to the Marshall Islands by the American destroyer US Burden R. Hastings DE-19
    • Japanese submarine HIJMS RO-114 is cast close to the Marianas island by the American destroyer US Melvin DD-689
    • the Navy American advances on the island of Saipan and takes the towns of Chaan Karoo and Point Afetna; 3  426 American will lose the life at the time of this operation.
    • ships of US Navy ordered by against American admiral W.L. Ainsworth bombard the Japanese installations on Guam in the Northern Marianna Islands
  • 1945: Countryside of Okinawa:
    • - the American destroyer US Twiggs DD-591 is run off the Ryukyu islands to Okinawa by a torpedo of Japanese a Kamikaze plane.
    • - the Yuza mount on the Okinawa island falls to the hands from the American troops
  • 1947: First appearance of Lucky Luke in the Newspaper of Spirou.
  • 1963 :
  • 1964: An earthquake shakes Niigata in Japan
  • 1974: Björn Borg gains its first tournament of the large slam at 18 years.
  • 1975 : The Afro-American Adam Wade animates the emission contest main road of television Musical Flesh. He becomes the first Afro-American to animate an emission contest on television American
  • 1976: Massacre of Soweto against a peaceful demonstration of young blacks in South Africa, under the Apartheid, which will make 575 dead.
  • 1981 : the Canadian Ambassador Ken Taylor honoured for its assistance in the escape from six American hostages with the Iran
  • 1994: Francois Bayrou, Minister for State education presents, with the Sorbonne in the presence of Edouard Balladur, Prime Minister, the 158 proposals for a sound “ New agreement for the school ” including provisions for the Collège, like its reorganization under development three cycles and of the Pluridisciplinarité.

21e century

  • 2001 : Italy: the Tour of Pisa is rectified of 40 cm after 11 years of work.

  • 2006 : Sri Lanka, a Attack against a bus having made 69 died revivals engagements between the government and the Tigers tamoul

Aerospace

  • 1961 : The NASA lance “Discoverer 25” which will evaluate, in space, conditions of certain minerals of the Earth.
  • 1963 : The Russian cosmonaut Valentina Terechkova 26 years old is the first female astronaut.
  • 1983
    • the European space agency launches the communications satellite radio ham “Oscar 10”
    • the European space agency launches a rocket ARIANE I which places satellite “ESCI” in orbit of the Earth at 22  000 miles with the top of the equator
  • 2000: The probe " Total March Surveyor" in orbit around the planet Mars transmits photographs of the ravines dug by mud flows coming from what could be sources of water hidden under the surface of red planet.

Cinema

  • 1937
    • Lancement in Los Angeles of American film of the Marx Brothers has Day At The Races
    • Mariage of the American actress Jeannette Mac Donald with the American actor Gene Raymond
  • 1943: Marriage of the actor Charlie Chaplin with the young person Gave O' Neil 18 years, his fourth wife
  • 1955: Launching with the United States of American film the Beautiful one and the Tramp musical comedy of Walt Disney
  • 1960: Launching in the United States of American film Psychosis of Alfred Hitchcock
  • 1964: Marriage of Alan Atkins with Barbara Dana
  • 1972: Marriage of the American actress Natalie Wood with the American actor Robert Wagner
  • 1973: Marriage of the American actor Richard Maloof with the American actress Mary Lou Metzger
  • 1978: Launching in New York of American film Grease putting in the high-speed motorboat John Travolta, Michelle Pfeiffer and Olivia Newton-John
  • 1980: Launching with the United States of American film The Blues Brothers with John Belushi and daN Ackroyd and the participation of James Brown, Ray Charles, Aretha Franklin and Cab Calloway with its song “Minnie the Moocher”
  • 1984: Marriage of the American actor Morgan Freeman with Myrna Collie-Lee
  • 1991: Launching in the United States of Canadian film Ghostbusters II
  • 1991: Marriage of the American actor Rick Johnson with LISA L Johnson
  • 1995
    • Launching in the United States of American film Batman Forever
    • Marriage of the actress originating in Macao, Ming-Na Wen with the actor Eric Michael Zee
  • 1996: Marriage of the American actress Kassie Wesley with James DePaiva
  • 1999: In Sweden, funeral of the actress Greta Garbo, 9 years after its death.
  • 2001 : Marriage of the American actress Vanessa Claire Smith with the American actor Launches Arthur Smith.
  • 2004
    • Marriage of the Italian actress Martina Colombari (Miss Italy 1991) with Alessandro Costacurta.
    • David Janollari is named president of the cinematographic company Warner-Brothers and its network.

Second world war

Battle of the Atlantic

  • 1940 :
    • the British cargo liner S Andania is cast in the North Atlantic by German submarine UA
    • the British cargo liner S Wellington Star is cast in the North Atlantic by the German submarine U-101.
  • 1941 :
    • the pilots of the 2nd group of RAF succeed in running a German trawler which was used as radio station with short waves to inform German aviation of displacements of allied ships.
  • 1942
    • the American cargo liner S Arkansan is cast in the North Atlantic by the German submarine U-126.
    • the American cargo liner S Song is cast in the North Atlantic by the bombs of the German planes
    • the American cargo liner S Cherokee is cast in the North Atlantic by the German submarine U-87, at the time of the attack of convoy XB-25
    • ** The American cargo liner S Kahuku is run in the North Atlantic by the German submarine U-126,
    • the British cargo liner S Nicholson Port is run in the North Atlantic by the German submarine U-87, at the time of the attack of convoy XB-25
    • the cargo liner S Managua is run in the North Atlantic by the German submarine U-67.
    • the British destroyer HMS Hermione is cast in the North Atlantic by the German submarine U-205.
  • 1943 :
    • the cargo liner of South Africa S Columbine is cast in the Indian Ocean by the German submarine U-198
    • the German submarine U-97 is cast in the Mediterranean in the west of Haïfa by the bombs of Australian a Hudson plane of flotilla RAAF 459
    • a plane of the British flotilla RAF-547 is cut down by the German submarine U-600 in the North Atlantic

Battle of France

  • 1940 :
    • Resignation of Paul Reynaud, Prime Minister for the France which is opposed to an armistice with the Germany Nazi
    • Début of the evacuation of the British soldiers and French of France towards the the United Kingdom
    • a plane of the British flotilla RAF-547 is cut down by the German submarine U-600 in the North Atlantic.
    • During the evening, the general Charles de Gaulle learns the resignation from the government of Paul Reynaud.
    • the marshal Philippe Pétain is named with the presidency of the council by the French president Albert Lebrun.
    • the Head of State of France, Philippe Pétain requires the armistice with the Germany.
    • the German general Guderian advances with its troops along the the Saone and takes the town of Dijon which falls to the hands from the Germans Nazis
    • the marshal Philippe Pétain, chief of the French State, request with the the United Kingdom to release France of the obligation not to sign an armistice only with the Nazi Germany.
    • Winston Churchill informs the members of the the Commonwealth that if the the United Kingdom decided to continue the war alone, it is not by obstinacy but “a decision based on an evaluation of the true force of its position”
    • the representatives from France in Washington, allows that the contracts of purchase of weaponry signed between France and the United States are transferred to the the United Kingdom
    • the pilots from planes from the RAF bombard the oil refinery of Gelsenkirchen in Germany

Countryside of North Africa

  • 1941 :
    • the 7th armor-plated brigade British sudden of the considerable losses to the hands of the troops of the general German lieutenant Erwin Rommel.
    • the large destroyer of the France of Vichy, Knight-Paul is cast close to Syria by the torpedes of the planes of the RAF
    • the British submarine HMS Grampus is cast in the the Mediterranean with broad of Augusta in Italy by the ships Italian destroyers Circle , Polluce and Clio .
    • the British destroyer HMS Walker (D 27) is scuttled with broad of Derna in the east of the Mediterranean by its crew following the damage undergone because of the bombs of German planes
  • 1942
    • the British general Auchinleck authorizes the Ritchie general to organize the garrison of Tobrouk with the 8th British army as he hears it.
  • 1943
    • the field-marchal Henry Maitland Wilson is anobli by the king of the the United Kingdom George VI, in Tripoli, in Libya.
    • the German submarine U-97 is cast in the Mediterranean in the west of Haïfa by the bombs of Australian a Hudson plane of flotilla RAAF 459

Release of Italy

  • 1943
  • 1944
    • the troops of British Xe Body release Sploelo in Italy of the occupation by the troops Nazis

Release of France

  • 1944
    • the American troops cross the Dover river in Normandy
    • Its majesty the king of the the United Kingdom George VI visits the allied troops in Normandy
    • Libération of France - the general headquarter of the allied forces to the the United Kingdom reports that 99% of the American soldiers wounded on the beaches of Normandy are saved thanks to the fast medical care and with the new drugs

Literature

  • 1716 - Publication of the first volume of the translation of Iliad of Alexander Pope
  • 1904 - Leopold Bloom, hero of the novel '' Ulysses '' (published in 1922) of James Joyce, goes for his famous walk through Dublin. The event is today celebrated each year under the name of Bloomsday.
  • 1956 - Marriage of the British poet Ted Hughes with the American poetess Sylvia Plath

Religion

  • 1659 - Monseigneur François Montmorency of Laval, lately appointed apostolic vicar of News-France, unloads with Quebec, after a three months crossing on the ship “Sacrifice of Abraham”
  • 1846 - Election of the pope Pie IX; Jean-Marie Mastai-Ferrett de Senigallia, it chooses the name of Pie IX.
  • 1871 - Foundation of “Ancient Arabic Order off Noble off Mystic Shrine” with New York.
  • 2002 - the pope Jean-Paul II canonizes Padre Pio (x-1968), mystical Capucin monk

Sport

  • 1893 - First “Day of the ladies”, the ladies are allowed free with the part of baseball of the “New York Giants” in New York
  • 1888 - the first track of “Roller Coaster” in America opens in Coney Island with New York
  • 1909 - First victory of the team of baseball Highlanders (Yankees) of New York
  • 1909 - Jim Thorpe makes its beginnings in American professional baseball
  • 1927 - Tommy Armor gains the tournament of Open golf “U.S.”
  • 1929 - the first four places of the automobile race “Them 24 hours of Mans” in France are gained by British cars Bentley
  • 1946 - Lloyd Mangrum gains the tournament of Open golf “U.S.”
  • 1946 - Ben Hogan gains the tournament of Open golf “U.S.” for the second consecutive year
  • 1956 - Cary Middlecoff gains the tournament of Open golf “U.S.”
  • 1968 - Lee Trovino becomes the first golfor to play the 4 parts of the “Open U.S.” in lower part from the normal, 69,68,69 and 67
  • 1974 - Hale Irwin gains the tournament of golf “ U.S. Open”
  • 1975 - Hale Irwin gains the tournament of Open golf “U.S.”
  • 1979 - Carl Yastrzemski strikes its 1  000e sure blow with baseball
  • 1981 - the newspaper “Chicago Tribune” buys the club of baseball “Chicago Cubs” of P.K. Wrigley for $20  500  000 US
  • 1982 - the owners of the team of hockey Devils of the New Jersey obtain a concession of hockey in the NHL
  • 1983 - Carlos Vieira pedals in the bicycle during 191 hours without stop with Leiria in Portugal
  • 1984 - Edwin Moses gains its 100e consecutive race with the 400 meters
  • 1985
    • - Andy North gains the tournament of Open golf “U.S.”
    • - the Afro-American Willie Banks breaks world records while jumping over the bar with 58 feet 11,5 inches, or 17,97 meters, at the time of triple jump in Indianapolis to Indiana
    • - the Italian racing driver Michele Alboreto gains the Grand Prix of Formula 1 in Montreal, over a Ferrari
  • 1987 - Kareem Abdul-Jabbar sign a 2 year old contract of $5 million to play with the team of basketball Lakers of Los Angeles. He becomes thus the sportsman best paid in the world.
  • 1991
    • - the player of baseball of the Brave men of Atlanta Otis Nixon steals six goals at the time of a part against Expos of Montreal, thus establishing a record of the National League
    • - Twins of Minnesota establish a record of team by gaining 15 parts of continuation without defeat
  • 1995 - the organization of the Olympic Games 2002 is entrusted to the American city Salt Lake City
  • 1998
    • - the team of hockey “Red Wings” of Strait beats the team Capitals of Washington in 4 parts with 0 and gains the cut Stanley
    • - Steve Yzerman of the team of hockey “Red Wings” of Strait is selected the best player of the series eliminating heat 1998
  • 1999 - the American Maurice Greene beats the most prestigious record of the world, that D 100 meters run in 9,79 seconds.

Theater

  • 1876 - First representation of the play HMS Pinafore of Gilbert and Sullivan, in New York
  • 1907 - the musical comedy Peter Pan of James Barrie begins in Paris
  • 1952 - First representation of the musical comedy My Little Margie with Gale Storm and Charles Farrel
  • 1961
    • Passage in France of the dancer of the Ballet Rudolf Noureev of the Soviet Union with the Aéroport of Le Bourget (Paris), and requires asylum.
    • First representation, in Vienna, of the play Jacob' S Ladder of Schoenberg
  • 1977 - First representation of the spectacle “Battlemania” in Broadway in New York
  • 1995 - First representation in the United States of the American piece of music “Chronicle off has Death Foretold”

Births

Death

  • -1686 : Hammourabi, with Babylon

  •   956: Hugues Large the, duke of the Francs, father of Hugues Capet.
  • 1216 : Innocent II at 54 years, pope
  • 1361: John Tauler at 61 years, mystical German, author of Gottesfreunde
  • 1381: Siemovit III, duke of Mazovie
  • 1468: Jean the Boilerman of Saint Remy, Burgundian chronicler
  • 1644: Johannes has Sancto Thoma, Portuguese theologist, author of Poinsot
  • 1671: Stenka Razine, chief rebels Cosaque, tortured and carried out with Moscow
  • 1687: François Honorat de Beauvilliers, duke of Saint-Aignan (1607-1687) deceased in Paris, French, knight of the orders of the king, first gentleman E his room, soldier, governor of provinces, member of the French Academy
  • 1722: John Churchill at 72 years, British, deceased with Marlborough, ancestor to sir Winston Churchill.
  • 1742 : Louise-Elisabeth of Orleans, known as Miss de Montpensier , girl of the Regent Philippe of Orleans, queen of Spain (° December 11th 1709).
  • 1752 : Joseph Butler, British theologist , author of Analogy off Religion.
  • 1807 : John Skinner, British monk , type-setter of religious songs (° 1721).
  • 1812 : Franz Pforr, German painter (° April 5th, 1788)
  • 1832: Jeremy Bentham, philosopher, jurisconsult and reforming British († February 25th 1748)
  • 1833: Robert Lyon, Canadian deceased at 19 years with Perth in Ontario, Canada, killed by John Wilson (1809-1869) at the time of the last duel in Upper Canada.
  • 1855 : John Gorrie, inventive American of the system of refrigeration and the machine with ice cream
  • 1864: Patrick Kelley, died with the battle of Petersburg (Pennsylvania), Irish colonel, ordering Irish brigade with the army of the the United States
  • 1869: Charles exploring Sturt which discovered the major part of Australia: Australia (1795-1869)
  • 1900: Prince Francois, duke of Joinville, third wire of Louis-Philippe Ier
  • 1904: The general Bobrikov general governor of the Finland
  • 1930: Elmer Sperry, American, inventive engineer of gyrocompas (1860-1930)
  • 1937: A.G. Cherviakov, president of the White Russia.
  • 1939 : Chick Webb, musician and leader of jazz Afro-American.
  • 1940 : Dubose Heyward, American writer, author of Porgy and Star Spangled Virgin
  • 1958: Imre Nagy, Prime Minister of Hungary (° June 7th 1896)
  • 1959: George Reeves, American actor (° 1914)
  • 1967: Reginald Denny, American actor (° 1891)
  • 1970: Elsa Triplet, writer E French of Russian origin (° September 12th, 1896).
  • 1976 : Francis E Meloy Jr, American diplomat, ambassador of the United States in Lebanon
  • 1977: Werner von Braun, German pioneer of the manufacture of the German rockets V1 and V2 (° 1912).
  • 1978
  • 1979
  • 1980: Bob Nolan, type-setter, poet, Canadian singer country
  • 1981: John S Knight, American press baron, founder of the chain of newspapers “Knight-Ridder”
  • 1986: Maurice Duruflé, type-setter and organist French
  • 1987: June Knight, American actress (1913-1987)
  • 1990: Alphonse Dupront, French historian, first president of the university of Paris-Iv
  • 2003: Pierre Bourgault, politician Québécois

Celebrations

Catholic and orthodoxe saints of the day

  • Cyr and Julitte, martyrs in Tarse in 304.
  • Holy Aline or Pointed († towards 640), virgin and martyrdom in Belgium.
  • Ceccard de Luni (9th century), bishop and martyr, owner of Carrara marble.
  • Aurélien of Arles (+ 551), archbishop.

Catholic saints of the day

See too

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