About June 16
June 16, 2024 is the 168th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 198 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Sunday.
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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 227 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On June 16
- 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.
- 1746 –War of Austrian Succession: Austria and Sardinia defeat a Franco-Spanish army at the Battle of Piacenza.
- 1774 –Foundation of Harrodsburg, Kentucky.
- 1779 –Spain declares war on the Kingdom of Great Britain, and the Great Siege of Gibraltar begins.
- 1815 –Battle of Ligny and Battle of Quatre Bras, two days before the Battle of Waterloo.
- 1858 –Abraham Lincoln delivers his House Divided speech in Springfield, Illinois.
- 1858 –The Battle of Morar takes place during the Indian Mutiny.
- 1897 –A treaty annexing the Republic of Hawaii to the United States is signed; the Republic would not be dissolved until a year later.
- 1903 –Roald Amundsen commences the first east-west navigation of the Northwest Passage, leaving Oslo, Norway.
- 1903 –The Ford Motor Company is incorporated.
- 1911 –A 772 gram stony meteorite strikes the earth near Kilbourn, Wisconsin damaging a barn.
- 1911 –IBM founded as the Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company in Endicott, New York.
- 1922 –General election in the Irish Free State: the pro-Treaty Sinn Féin win a large majority.
- 1925 –The most famous Young Pioneer camp of the Soviet Union, Artek, is established.
- 1930 –Sovnarkom establishes decree time in the USSR.
- 1933 –The National Industrial Recovery Act is passed.
- 1961 –Rudolf Nureyev defects from the Soviet Union.
- 1963 –Soviet Space Program: Vostok 6 Mission – Cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova becomes the first woman in space.
- 1989 –Imre Nagy, the former Hungarian Prime Minister, is reburied in Budapest.
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