16 June
Notable Births
Anna Cathcart
b. 2003
Canadian actress (born 2003)
Sam Walker (rugby league)
b. 2002
Australian rugby league footballer
Bianca Andreescu
b. 2000
Canadian tennis player (born 2000)
Justin Jefferson
b. 1999
American football player (born 1999)
Ibrahima Koné (footballer, born 1999)
b. 1999
Malian footballer
Snail Mail (musician)
b. 1999
Solo musical project of Lindsey Jordan
Karman Thandi
b. 1998
Indian tennis player (born 1998)
Euan Aitken
b. 1995
Scotland international rugby league footballer
Akira Ioane
b. 1995
New Zealand rugby union player
Joseph Schooling
b. 1995
Singaporean swimmer (born 1995)
Ki Hui-hyeon
b. 1995
South Korean singer (born 1995)
Rezar
b. 1994
Dutch professional wrestler and mixed martial artist
Park Bo-gum
b. 1993
South Korean actor (born 1993)
Gnash (musician)
b. 1993
American musician and producer
Vladimir Morozov (swimmer)
b. 1992
Russian swimmer
Steve Larmer
b. 1961
Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1961)
Barbara McClintock
b. 1902
American scientist and cytogeneticist (1902–1992)
George Gaylord Simpson
b. 1902
American paleontologist (1902–1984)
Gustaf V
b. 1858
King of Sweden from 1907 to 1950
Adam Smith
b. 1723
Scottish economist and philosopher (1723–1790)
Notable Deaths
Kim Woodburn
d. 2025
English television personality and expert cleaner (1942–2025)
Ludwig Adamovich Jr.
d. 2024
Austrian constitutional scholar (1932–2024)
Gino Mäder
d. 2023
Swiss cyclist (1997–2023)
Frank Bonner
d. 2021
American actor and director (1942–2021)
Danding Cojuangco
d. 2020
Filipino politician and businessman (1935–2020)
Helmut Kohl
d. 2017
Chancellor of Germany from 1982 to 1998
Jo Cox
d. 2016
British politician (1974–2016)
Charles Correa
d. 2015
Indian architect and urban planner (1930–2015)
Tony Gwynn
d. 2014
American baseball player (1960–2014)
Hans Hass
d. 2013
Austrian biologist, film-maker, and underwater diving pioneer
Khondakar Ashraf Hossain
d. 2013
Bangladeshi writer
Norman MacKenzie (journalist)
d. 2013
British writer, journalist and educationalist (1921–2013)
Ottmar Walter
d. 2013
German footballer (1924–2013)
Nils Karlsson
d. 2012
Swedish cross-country skier
Sławomir Petelicki
d. 2012
Polish general (1946–2012)
Susan Tyrrell
d. 2012
American actress (1945–2012)
Maureen Forrester
d. 2010
Canadian operatic contralto (1930–2010)
Ronald Neame
d. 2010
English filmmaker and cinematographer (1911–2010)
Lindsay Hassett
d. 1993
Australian cricketer (1913–1993)
Marcel Junod
d. 1961
Swiss medical doctor
On This Day in History
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2019
Upwards of 2,000,000 people participate in the 2019–20 Hong Kong protests, the largest in Hong Kong's history.
2019–2020 Hong Kong protests
2016
Shanghai Disneyland Park, the first Disney Park in mainland China, opens to the public.
Shanghai Disneyland
2015
American businessman Donald Trump announces his campaign to run for President of the United States in the upcoming election.
Business career of Donald Trump
2013
A multi-day cloudburst, centered on the North Indian state of Uttarakhand, causes devastating floods and landslides, becoming the country's worst natural disaster since the 2004 tsunami.
2013 North India floods
2012
China successfully launches its Shenzhou 9 spacecraft, carrying three astronauts, including the first female Chinese astronaut Liu Yang, to the Tiangong-1 orbital module.
Shenzhou 9
2012
The United States Air Force's robotic Boeing X-37B spaceplane returns to Earth after a classified 469-day orbital mission.
United States Air Force
2010
Bhutan becomes the first country to institute a total ban on tobacco.
Bhutan
2002
Padre Pio is canonized by the Roman Catholic Church.
Padre Pio
2000
The Secretary-General of the UN reports that Israel has complied with United Nations Security Council Resolution 425, 22 years after its issuance, and completely withdrew from Lebanon. The Resolution does not encompass the Shebaa farms, which is claimed by Israel, Syria and Lebanon.
United Nations Security Council Resolution 425
1997
Fifty people are killed in the Daïat Labguer (M'sila) massacre in Algeria.
Daïat Labguer (M'sila) massacre
1995
The Astronomy Picture of the Day website is launched.
Astronomy Picture of the Day
1989
Revolutions of 1989: Imre Nagy, the former Hungarian prime minister, is reburied in Budapest following the collapse of Communism in Hungary.
Revolutions of 1989
1981
US President Ronald Reagan awards the Congressional Gold Medal to Ken Taylor, Canada's former ambassador to Iran, for helping six Americans escape from Iran during the hostage crisis of 1979–81; he is the first foreign citizen bestowed the honor.
Ronald Reagan
1977
Oracle Corporation is incorporated in Redwood Shores, California, as Software Development Laboratories (SDL), by Larry Ellison, Bob Miner and Ed Oates.
Oracle Corporation
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.
Soweto uprising
1972
The largest single-site hydroelectric power project in Canada is inaugurated at Churchill Falls Generating Station.
Churchill Falls Generating Station
1963
Soviet Space Program: Vostok 6 mission: Cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova becomes the first woman in space.
Vostok 6
1963
In an attempt to resolve the Buddhist crisis in South Vietnam, a Joint Communique was signed between President Ngo Dinh Diem and Buddhist leaders.
Buddhist crisis
1961
While on tour with the Kirov Ballet in Paris, Rudolf Nureyev defects from the Soviet Union.
Mariinsky Ballet
1958
Imre Nagy, Pál Maléter and other leaders of the 1956 Hungarian Uprising are executed.
Imre Nagy