152 sourced historical events are currently published for June 16. Browse the chronology below or filter this date by place and event type. This collection is expanding, not an exhaustive account of the day.
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The Battle of Jicheng was fought between the state of Former Yan against the Later Zhao dynasty from 12 to 16 June 338 during the Sixteen Kingdoms period. Following the breakdown of their alliance against the Duan tribe, the battle concluded in victory for the Yan.
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The sack of Rome in 455 was carried out by the Vandals led by their king Gaiseric. A 442 treaty between the Western Roman Empire and Vandal Kingdom included a marriage of state between the daughter of Roman Emperor Valentinian III and the son of Gaiseric. Valentinian's successor Petronius Maximus violated the treaty by marrying his son to Valentinian's daughter, and Gaiseric retaliated with an invasion of Italy.
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Yazdegerd III became the last ruler of the Sasanian dynasty. The traditional start of his reign was used as the starting point of the Era of Yazdegerd.
June 16 is the traditional Julian date for the accession. The same day is June 19 in the proleptic Gregorian calendar.
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The battle of Colle di Val d'Elsa took place between 16 and 17 June 1269 at Colle di Val d'Elsa between the Ghibelline troops of Siena and the Guelph troops of Charles of Anjou and Florence, represented by fewer than 200 knights commanded by Neri de' Bardi.
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The siege of Copenhagen (Danish: Belejringen af København) or the Capture of Copenhagen (Danish: Overtagelsen af København), was a looting and siege of Copenhagen and Absalon's Castle in 1368 between Denmark and the Hanseatic League, during the Danish-Hanseatic War (1361–1370). The city was looted and Absalon's castle was destroyed.
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Ming troops captured Hồ Quý Ly, the founder and former ruler of the Hồ dynasty, in what is now Hà Tĩnh Province, Vietnam. Vietnamese chronicles date the capture of his successor, Hồ Hán Thương, to the following day.
June 16 is the Julian date for day 11 of the fifth lunar month. The proleptic Gregorian date is June 25.
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The Battle of Aussig (German: Schlacht bei Aussig) or Battle of Ústí nad Labem (Czech: Bitva u Ústí nad Labem) was fought on 16 June 1426, between Roman Catholic crusaders and the Hussites during the Fourth Crusade of the Hussite Wars. It was fought near Aussig (Ústí nad Labem) in northern Bohemia. The crusade was called because the Pope believed that the Hussite armies would be easily defeated after the death of Jan Žižka. The overall commander of the Hussite forces at the battle was Sigismund Korybut, while Prokop the Great was independently in command of the Taborites.
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The Battle of Bazel was fought in the Belgian village of Bazel on June 16, 1452 between an army under the Philip III, Duke of Burgundy and the rebelling city of Ghent. The battle was part of the Revolt of Ghent, and a victory for the Duke.
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The Battle of Stoke Field on 16 June 1487 may be considered the last battle of the Wars of the Roses, since it was the last major engagement between contenders for the throne whose claims derived from descent from the houses of Lancaster and York respectively. The Battle of Bosworth, two years previously, had established King Henry VII on the throne, ending the last period of Yorkist rule and initiating that of the Tudors. The Battle of Stoke Field was the decisive engagement in an attempt by leading Yorkists to unseat him in favour of the pretender Lambert Simnel.
East Stoke, Nottinghamshire, United Kingdom · Nottinghamshire, United Kingdom · War & conflict · Checked 2026-09-23
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On June 16, 1487, King Henry VII's army defeated a Yorkist rebel force at Stoke Field in present-day Nottinghamshire, England. The rebels backed Lambert Simnel as a rival claimant to the throne. The battle is commonly regarded as the last major engagement of the Wars of the Roses.
The dated event is the Battle of Stoke Field, not an event in Ireland.
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The Battle of Little Belt was a naval battle between a combined Swedish/Danish/Prussian fleet and a fleet from Lübeck on 16 June 1535, during the Count's Feud. The battle ended in a heavy defeat for Lübeck.
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The Battle of Tashiskari (Georgian: ტაშისკარის ბრძოლა) was fought between the Georgians and the Ottomans at the village of Tashiskari on June 16, 1609. The Georgians, led by Giorgi Saakadze won a victory over the Ottomans.
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The Battle of Glenmaquin was a battle on 16 June 1642 during the Irish Confederate Wars, the Irish theatre of the Wars of the Three Kingdoms. It was fought between the forces of Confederate Ireland under Sir Phelim O'Neill and the Laggan Army under Sir Robert and Sir William Stewart. The battle ended in a decisive victory for the Laggan Army.
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The siege of Lyme Regis was an eight-week blockade during the First English Civil War. The port of Lyme Regis, in Dorset, was considered to be of strategic importance because it controlled the main shipping route between Bristol and the English Channel. Thomas Ceeley and Robert Blake commanded the town's Parliamentarian defences during the siege, which was laid by Prince Maurice between 20 April and 16 June 1644. At the start of the war, Lyme Regis was claimed by a pair of local members of parliament, and garrisoned for the Parliamentarians.
Dorset, United Kingdom · Lyme Regis, United Kingdom · War & conflict · Checked 2026-09-23
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The Battle of Orbetello, also known as the Battle of Isola del Giglio, was a major naval engagement of the Franco-Spanish War of 1635. It was fought on 14 June 1646 off the Spanish-ruled town of Orbetello, on the coast of Tuscany, Italy, between a French fleet led by Admiral Armand de Maillé, Marquis of Brézé, and a Spanish fleet commanded by Miguel de Noronha, 4th Count of Linhares sent to break the blockade of Orbetello and relieve the town, besieged since 12 May by a French army commanded by Prince Thomas of Savoy.
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The Battle of Sinsheim was a victory of the Vicomte de Turenne, over forces from the Holy Roman Empire on 16 June 1674, during the Franco-Dutch War. The battle was fought in Sinsheim (southeast of Heidelberg), not Sinzheim (near Baden-Baden) as it is often presumed.
Baden-Württemberg, Germany · War & conflict · Checked 2026-09-23
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The Battle of Imbros was a naval clash that took place on 12, 13 and 16 June 1717 near Imbros in the Aegean Sea, between the sailing fleets of Venice and the Ottoman Empire. The outnumbered Venetian Armada Grossa, under the Capitano Straordinario delle Navi Lodovico Flangini, proved herself able to match a superior Turkish force under the Kapudan Pasha Hodja Ibrahim Pasha in a manoeuvred fight that lasted nearly ten days.
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The Battle of Piacenza was fought between a Franco-Spanish army and the Austrian army near Piacenza, in Northern Italy on June 16, 1746. It formed part of later operations in the War of the Austrian Succession. The result was a victory for the Austrian forces, led by Prince Josef Wenzel. Prince Franz Josef I and Louis-Joseph de Montcalm were among the notable combatants.
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On June 16, 1760, a force of Rogers' Rangers led by Robert Rogers raided and burned Fort Sainte-Thérèse on the Richelieu River in present-day Quebec, Canada. The attack was part of the British campaign against New France during the Seven Years' War. French troops soon rebuilt the fort, so its destruction on this date was temporary.
June 16 is the fort's destruction during the wider raid; French forces rebuilt it soon afterward.
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The Great Siege of Gibraltar was an unsuccessful attempt by Spain and France to capture Gibraltar from Britain during the American Revolutionary War. It was the largest battle in the war by number of combatants. On 16 June 1779, Spain entered the war on the side of France with the primary war aim of capturing Gibraltar from the British.
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The Battle of Uransari or the Battle of Kachis Capel took place on June 16, 1790 during the Russo-Swedish War (1788–1790).
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The Battle of Lambusart (16 June 1794) saw a Republican French army led by Jean Baptiste Jourdan try to cross the Sambre River against a combined Dutch and Habsburg Austrian army under William VI, Hereditary Prince of Orange. This battle was the culmination of the fourth of five attempts to consolidate a foothold on the north side of the Sambre.
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Cornwallis's Retreat was a naval engagement during the French Revolutionary Wars in which a British Royal Navy squadron of five ships of the line and two frigates was attacked by a much larger French Navy fleet of 12 ships of the line and 11 frigates. The action took place in the waters off the west coast of Brittany on 16–17 June 1795 (28–29 Prairial an III of the French Republican Calendar).
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The Battle of Ligny (16 June 1815) was the last victory of the military career of Napoleon I. In this battle, French troops of the Armée du Nord under Napoleon's command, defeated part of a Prussian army under Field Marshal Blücher, near Ligny in present-day Belgium. The Battle of Ligny is a prime example of a tactical win and a strategic loss, in that the bulk of the Prussian army survived and went on to play a pivotal role two days later at the Battle of Waterloo, reinforced by IV Prussian corps that had not participated in the battle at Ligny.
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The Battle of Quatre Bras was fought on 16 June 1815, two days before the Battle of Waterloo. The battle was contested between Wellington's Anglo-allied army and the left wing of the Armée du Nord under Marshal Michel Ney.
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The 1819 Rann of Kutch earthquake occurred at about 18:45 to 18:50 local time on 16 June 1819. It had an estimated magnitude ranging from 7.7 to 8.2 on the moment magnitude scale and a maximum perceived intensity of XI (Extreme) on the Mercalli intensity scale. It triggered a tsunami and caused at least 1,543 deaths.
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Arthur Broome, Richard Martin, William Wilberforce and others met at Old Slaughter’s Coffee House to form an animal welfare society.
St Martin’s Lane, London, United Kingdom · Politics & society · Checked 2026-11-06
The Battle of Horseshoe Bend, also referred to as the Battle of Pecatonica and the Battle of Bloody Lake, was fought on June 16, 1832, in present-day Wisconsin at an oxbow lake known as "Horseshoe Bend", which was formed by a change in course of the Pecatonica River. The battle was a major turning point in the Black Hawk War, despite being of only minor military significance.
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The Battle of Wusong (Woosung) (Chinese: 吳淞戰役) was fought between British and Chinese forces at the entrance of the Wusong River (present-day Huangpu River), Jiangsu province, China, on 16 June 1842, during the First Opium War. The British capture of the towns of Woosung (now Wusong) and Baoshan opened the way to Shanghai, which was captured with little resistance on 19 June.
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On June 16, 1849, Hungarian troops under Colonel Lajos Asbóth advanced at Zsigárd during the Hungarian War of Independence. An Austrian counterattack pushed them back toward their starting positions.
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The Filibuster War, also referred to the Walker affair and known in Costa Rica as the National Campaign of 1856–1857, was a war fought in Central America between 1855 and 1857. The militaries of Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, and Nicaragua established the Allied Central American Army and fought against American filibusters led by William Walker who had taken over the Nicaraguan government.
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The Dunedin Country by-election 1858 was a by-election held in the multi-member Dunedin Country electorate during the 2nd New Zealand Parliament, on 16 June 1858. The by-election was caused by the resignation of incumbent MP John Cargill and was won by John Taylor.
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After accepting the Illinois Republican nomination for the U.S. Senate, Abraham Lincoln spoke in Springfield about the growing division over slavery.
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The Battle of Secessionville (or the First Battle of James Island) was fought on June 16, 1862, during the American Civil War. Confederate forces defeated the Union's only attempt to capture Charleston, South Carolina, by land.
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The Pinhook Draw fight took place June 15–16, 1881, near Moab, Utah. It was part of a series of clashes between the Ute people and Anglo-American settlers sometimes termed the Ute Wars. The combatants were 30 to 65 Ute and Paiute people and about three dozen white settlers, mostly cowboys and miners from southwestern Colorado and southeastern Utah.
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On 16 June 1883, a crowd crush caused by the distribution of free prizes resulted in the deaths of 183 children at the Victoria Hall in Sunderland, England.
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The original Switchback Railway was the first roller coaster at Coney Island in Brooklyn, New York City, and one of the earliest designed for amusement in the United States. The 1885 patent states the invention relates to the gravity double track switchback railway, which had predicated the inclined plane railway, patented in 1878 by Richard Knudsen. Coney Island's version was designed by LaMarcus Adna Thompson in 1881 and constructed in 1884.
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The 1894 Sanitary Board Election was supposed to be held on 16 June 1894 was the second election for the 2 unofficial seats in the Sanitary Board of Hong Kong. Only persons on the jury lists of the year were eligible to vote. There were only two candidates therefore there was no formal election was held. John Joseph Francis was elected for the third time. During the election, the outbreak of the bubonic plague caused devastating damages to the colony. The plague raised the issue of the composition and power of the Sanitary Board.
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Federal elections were held in Germany on 16 June 1898. Despite the Social Democratic Party (SPD) receiving a plurality of votes, the Centre Party remained the largest party in the Reichstag after winning 102 of the 397 seats, whilst the SPD won just 56. Voter turnout was 68.1%.
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Federal elections were held in Germany on 16 June 1903. Despite the Social Democratic Party (SPD) receiving a clear plurality of votes, the Centre Party remained the largest party in the Reichstag after winning 100 of the 397 seats, whilst the SPD won only 81. The voter turnout for the election was 76.1%.
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The Ford Motor Company (commonly known as Ford, sometimes abbreviated as FoMoCo) is an American multinational automobile manufacturer headquartered in Dearborn, Michigan, United States. It was founded by Henry Ford and incorporated on June 16, 1903. The company sells automobiles and commercial vehicles under the Ford brand, and luxury cars under its Lincoln brand.
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Roald Amundsen and his crew sailed from Kristiania, now Oslo, aboard Gjøa on an expedition that would complete the first navigation of the Northwest Passage.
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The assassination of Nikolay Bobrikov took place on 16 June [O.S. 3 June] 1904 when Finnish nationalist Eugen Schauman shot and killed the Governor-General of Finland, Nikolay Bobrikov, on a staircase in the Government Palace, which at the time was the main building of the Senate of Finland. After shooting Bobrikov, Schauman shot and killed himself.
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James Joyce and Nora Barnacle went out together in Dublin for the first time. Joyce later set his novel Ulysses on that date.
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The 1905 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship final was the eighteenth All-Ireland Final and the deciding match of the 1905 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship, an inter-county Gaelic football tournament for the top teams in Ireland.
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The Auckland East by-election was a by-election in the New Zealand electorate of Auckland East, an urban seat at the top of the North Island. The by-election was held on 16 June 1910, and was precipitated by the death of sitting Liberal MP Frederick Baume.
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The Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company was incorporated in New York state as a consolidation of businesses making tabulating, time-recording and weighing equipment. It later took the name IBM.
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The Fourth Battle of Topolobampo was a single ship action fought during the Mexican Revolution and the last naval battle of the Topolobampo Campaign. In June 1914, a Huertista gunboat sank a Constitutionalist gunboat off Topolobampo, Sinaloa in the Gulf of California.
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The Malgaç Raid was a raid conducted by Yörük Ali Efe and his men on 16 June 1919. The target of the raid was the Malgaç railway bridge, which was used by the Greeks to transport military equipment to Nazilli and beyond. It was one of the first organized civil resistance attacks against the invading Greek forces in western Anatolia.
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The Rathcoole ambush (Irish: Luíochán Ráth Cúil) was an ambush carried out by the Irish Republican Army (IRA) near the village of Rathcoole in County Cork on 16 June 1921 during the Irish War of Independence. Under the command of Paddy O'Brien, the IRA's 2nd Cork Brigade attacked an armed convoy of the Auxiliary Division returning to their barracks in Millstreet after collecting supplies.
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The 1922 Irish general election took place in Southern Ireland on Friday, 16 June. The election was separately called by a resolution of Dáil Éireann on 19 May and by an order of the Provisional Government on 27 May. The body elected was thus both the 3rd Dáil and provisional parliament replacing the parliament of Southern Ireland, under the provisions of the 1921 Anglo-Irish Treaty to elect a constituent assembly paving the way for the formal establishment of the Irish Free State.
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The June 16 Incident, also known as the Guangzhou uprising or the Chen Jiongming Rebellion, was a coup d'état led by Chen Jiongming against the Guangzhou government on June 16, 1922. The conflict began due to a dispute between Sun Yat-sen's policy of beginning the Northern Expedition and uniting China forcefully, and Chen Jiongming's policy of creating a federalist constitution.
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The Whampoa Military Academy held its formal opening ceremony on June 16, 1924, on Changzhou Island in Guangzhou, China. Sun Yat-sen addressed the ceremony. The academy had been planned earlier in the year and had already begun enrolling its first students in May; June 16 marks the public opening ceremony, not the first day of planning or enrollment.
June 16 is the formal opening ceremony; first students began enrollment in May 1924.
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Artek (Russian: Артек) is an international children's center (a former Young Pioneer camp) on the Black Sea in the town of Gurzuf located on the Crimean Peninsula, near Ayu-Dag. It was established on 16 June 1925 as the V. I. Lenin All-Union Pioneer Camp. Artek was considered to be a privilege for Soviet children during its existence, as well as for children from other communist countries.
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A by-election was held for the Australian House of Representatives seat of Martin on 16 June 1928. This was triggered by the death of Nationalist MP and Trade and Customs Minister Herbert Pratten. The by-election was won by the Nationalist candidate, Pratten's nephew Graham.
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The 1929 Campeonato de Portugal Final was the final match of the 1928–29 Campeonato de Portugal, the 8th season of the Campeonato de Portugal, the Portuguese football knockout tournament, organized by the Portuguese Football Federation (FPF). The match was played on 16 June 1929 at the Campo de Palhavã in Lisbon between Belenenses and União de Lisboa. Belenenses defeated União de Lisboa 2–1 to claim their second Campeonato de Portugal.
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The 1932 Manitoba general election was held on June 16, 1932, to elect Members of the Legislative Assembly of the province of Manitoba, Canada. A Liberal-Progressive majority government was elected. This was the second election in Manitoba where two types of preferential voting was used in all electoral divisions. Winnipeg elected ten members through single transferable ballot, while all other constituencies elected one member by instant runoff voting.
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On June 16, 1933, US President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed the National Industrial Recovery Act into law. The New Deal measure created the National Recovery Administration, authorized industry-wide fair-competition codes and collective bargaining protections, and established a federal public works program.
The bill had cleared Congress earlier; June 16 is the signing and approval date.
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Philippine Commonwealth president Manuel L. Quezon presented a message to the National Assembly at the Legislative Building in Manila. He spoke about the government’s plans and the country’s economic and social conditions.
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On June 16, 1940, French Prime Minister Paul Reynaud resigned as German forces advanced. President Albert Lebrun appointed Philippe Pétain to replace him. Pétain's government moved toward seeking an armistice with Germany; the later Vichy regime was established in July, not on this day.
June 16 marks Pétain's appointment as prime minister, not the creation of Vichy France.
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Convoy HX 133 was the 133rd of the numbered series of World War II HX convoys of merchant ships from HalifaX to Liverpool. The ships departed Halifax on 16 June 1941, and were found on 23 June by U-boats of the 1st U-boat Flotilla, operating out of Brest, France. U-boats sank six ships before the convoy reached Liverpool on 3 July.
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Operation Vigorous ( Italian: Battaglia di mezzo giugno 1942, "the Battle of mid-June") was a British operation during the Second World War, to escort supply Convoy MW 11 from the eastern Mediterranean to Malta, which took place from 11 to 16 June 1942. Vigorous was part of Operation Julius, a simultaneous operation with Operation Harpoon from Gibraltar and supporting operations.
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Operation SO and SE (ソ作戦とセ作戦, SO Sakusen to SE Sakusen) were parts of an aerial offensive launched by Imperial Japanese forces against Allied forces staging around Guadalcanal area during the Solomon Islands Campaign in the Pacific Theater of World War II. The aerial offensive took place between 7 and 16 June 1943 and was aimed at destroying Allied air power and shipping.
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Operation Schwarz (German: Unternehmen Schwarz), also known as the Fifth Enemy Offensive (Serbo-Croatian Latin: Peta neprijateljska ofanziva) in Yugoslav historiography and often identified with its final phase, the Battle of the Sutjeska (Serbo-Croatian Latin: Bitka na Sutjesci pronounced [bîtka na sûtjɛst͡si]) was a joint attack by the Axis. Taking place from 15 May to 16 June 1943, it aimed to destroy the main Yugoslav Partisan force, near the Sutjeska River in south-eastern Bosnia.
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The bombing of Yawata (Yahata kūshū) on the night of 15–16 June 1944 marked the beginning of the United States Army Air Forces (USAAF) strategic bombing campaign against the Japanese home islands during the Pacific War and was the first such raid to employ strategic bombers. The raid was undertaken by 75 Boeing B-29 Superfortress heavy bombers staging from bases in China.
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The Sungai Siput incident is an event that marked the beginning of the Malayan Emergency on 16 June 1948. Three European plantation managers were killed at Sungai Siput, Perak. Elphil Estate manager A.E. Walker was shot in at his office desk at 8.30am. Nearby manager John Alison and his assistant Ian Christian of the Phin Soon Estate were killed about 30 minutes later.
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On June 16, 1948, two European plantation managers and one assistant were killed at neighbouring estates in central Perak. The British High Commissioner immediately proclaimed emergency measures in the affected part of Perak and two areas of Johor, giving police expanded powers. These attacks and the colonial response marked the opening of the Malayan Emergency; emergency rule was extended across the federation later.
June 16 is the date of the killings and initial local emergency measures, not the date of a federation-wide emergency proclamation.
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Guangming Daily began publication in Beijing. The Chinese newspaper’s first issue was published in four pages, and its coverage has long included education and culture.
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The 1951 Prahran state by-election was held on 16 June 1951 to elect the member for Prahran in the Victorian Legislative Assembly, following the resignation of Labor Party MP Frank Crean. Crean resigned to contest the federal election on 28 April 1951, where he was elected as the member for Melbourne Ports. Robert Pettiona retained the seat for Labor despite a swing of 2.9% towards the Liberal and Country Party (LCP).
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The Copa del Generalísimo 1957 final was the 55th final of the King's Cup. The final was played at Montjuic in Barcelona, on 16 June 1957, being won by CF Barcelona, who beat RCD Español 1–0.
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The 1958 Manitoba general election was held on June 16, 1958 to elect Members of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Manitoba, Canada. The election resulted in a minority victory for the Progressive Conservative Party under the leadership of Dufferin Roblin. This election was the first in Manitoba after a comprehensive electoral redistribution in 1956. The redistribution saw the city of Winnipeg abandon its three four-member districts.
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Imre Nagy (7 June 1896 – 16 June 1958) was a Hungarian Communist politician who served as Chairman of the Council of Ministers (Prime Minister) of the Hungarian People's Republic from 1953 to 1955. In 1956 Nagy became leader of the Hungarian Revolution of 1956 against the Soviet-backed government, for which he was sentenced to death and executed two years later.
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Psycho is a 1960 American horror thriller film produced and directed by Alfred Hitchcock. The screenplay, written by Joseph Stefano, is based on the 1959 novel by Robert Bloch. The film stars Anthony Perkins, Janet Leigh, Vera Miles, John Gavin, and Martin Balsam. The plot centers on an encounter between on-the-run embezzler Marion Crane (Leigh), shy motel proprietor Norman Bates (Perkins), and his disturbed mother.
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The 1963 Championnat National 1 final was the first final of the Algerian Championnat after the country's independence. The match took place on June 16, 1963, at Stade d'El Anasser in Algiers with kick-off at 15:00. USM Alger beat MC Alger 3–0 to win their first Algerian Championnat.
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Parliamentary elections were held in Yugoslavia in June 1963. They were the first held under the 1963 constitution which created a five-chamber Federal Assembly. Only one chamber, the 120-seat Federal Council, was chosen by universal suffrage, with its election taking place on 16 June. The other four chambers, the Economic Council, the Educational-Cultural Council, the Social and Heath Council and the Organizational-Political Council were elected between 3 and 16 June by people employed or specializing in a related industry.
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The Joint Communiqué was an agreement signed on 16 June 1963 between the South Vietnamese government of Ngô Đình Diệm and the Buddhist leadership during the Buddhist crisis.
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Soviet cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova launched aboard Vostok 6 and became the first woman to travel into space.
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The Battle of Hill 488 was a military engagement of the Vietnam War that took place on the night of 15–16 June 1966. A small United States Marine Corps (USMC) reconnaissance platoon inflicted large casualties on regular People's Army of Vietnam (PAVN) and Viet Cong (VC) fighters before withdrawing with only a few dead.
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The 1968 Taça de Portugal final was the final match of the 1967–68 Taça de Portugal, the 28th season of the Taça de Portugal, the premier Portuguese football cup competition organized by the Portuguese Football Federation (FPF). The match was played on 16 June 1968 at the Estádio Nacional in Oeiras, and opposed two Primeira Liga sides: Porto and Vitória de Setúbal.
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The 1968 Cupa României final was the 30th final of Romania's most prestigious football cup competition. It was disputed between Dinamo București and Rapid București, and was won by Dinamo București after a game with 4 goals after extra time. Alexandru Neagu failed a penalty in 90 minutes for Rapid București. It was the 3rd cup for Dinamo București.
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The 1970 Newark mayoral election was held on June 16, 1970. Incumbent mayor Hugh Addonizio ran for a third term in office but was defeated by civil engineer Kenneth A. Gibson. Gibson became the first black man elected mayor of a major city in the Northeastern United States or Eastern Seaboard. Gibson finished first in a primary election on May 12 but did not receive a majority of the vote.
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The Battle of Kompong Speu began on June 12, 1970, when the combined forces of the Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN) and the Khmer National Armed Forces (FANK) fought to recapture the provincial capital of Kampong Speu. The town was captured by People's Army of Vietnam forces on 13 June but was retaken by ARVN/FANK forces on 16 June.
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An opening ceremony marked the Churchill Falls hydroelectric development in Labrador. The station had begun delivering electricity the previous December.
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Supreme Soviet elections were held in the Soviet Union on 16 June 1974.
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The 1974 Greek Cup final was the 30th final of the Greek Cup. The match took place on 16 June 1974 at Nikos Goumas Stadium. The contesting teams were PAOK and Olympiacos for a second time in row. It was PAOK's eighth Greek Cup final and fifth consecutive in their 48 years of existence and Olympiacos' nineteenth Greek Cup final and second consecutive in their 49-year history.
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The Italian regional elections of 1975 were held on 15 and 16 June. The fifteen ordinary regions, created in 1970, elected their second assemblies. Following the 1971 census, Piedmont, Veneto and Lazio had ten more seats each.
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The Soweto Uprising was a series of protests led by high school students in South Africa that began on the morning of 16 June 1976. Students from numerous Sowetan schools began to protest in the streets of Soweto in response to the introduction of Afrikaans as the medium of instruction in local schools. It is estimated that 20,000 students took part in the protests. They were met with fierce police brutality. The number of protesters killed by police is usually given as 176, but estimates of up to 700 have been made.
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The Irish general election of 1977 was held on 16 June 1977 and is regarded as a pivotal point in twentieth-century Irish politics. The general election took place in 42 parliamentary constituencies throughout Southern Ireland for 148 seats in the lower house of parliament, Dáil Éireann. The number of seats in the Dáil was increased by 4 from 144 to 148. The newly elected 148 members of the 21st Dáil assembled at Leinster House on 5 July when a new Fianna Fáil government replaced the incumbent Fine Gael–Labour Party coalition, with Jack Lynch becoming Taoiseach for the second time.
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The 1979 Coupe de France final was a football match held at Parc des Princes, Paris on 16 June 1979 that saw FC Nantes defeat AJ Auxerre of Division 2 4–1 thanks to goals by Eric Pécout and Oscar Muller.
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President Ronald Reagan presented the medal to former Canadian ambassador Kenneth Taylor at the White House. Congress had honored Taylor for helping six American diplomats leave Iran in 1980.
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An Ariane 1 rocket lifted off from Kourou carrying ECS-1, later called Eutelsat I-F1. The satellite went into service that October after in-orbit testing.
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A Liberal Party of Canada leadership election was called for June 16, 1984, to replace retiring Liberal leader and sitting Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau. The convention elected former Finance Minister John Turner, who at the time was not sitting in the House of Commons, as its leader on the second ballot, defeating another former finance minister, Jean Chrétien.
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A by-election in the Rakovica I constituency in Serbia was held in June 1991. The election was called after the death of representative Miodrag Bulatović of the Socialist Party of Serbia (SPS), and was contested by Radoš Karaklajić of SPS, Vojislav Šešelj of the Serbian Radical Party, Borislav Pekić of the Democratic Party and ten other candidates. Šešelj's candidature was also supported by the Serbian National Renewal and Serb Democratic Party.
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Astronomy Picture of the Day began publishing online with an illustration imagining Earth compressed into a neutron star.
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The 1996 Great American Bash was a professional wrestling pay-per-view event produced by World Championship Wrestling (WCW). It was the sixth Great American Bash under the WCW banner and 10th Great American Bash event overall. It took place on June 16, 1996, at the Baltimore Arena in Baltimore, Maryland. This was the fifth Great American Bash held at this venue after the 1988, 1989, 1990, and 1991 events.
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Presidential elections were held in Russia on 16 June 1996, with a second round being held on 3 July 1996. It resulted in a victory for the incumbent Russian president Boris Yeltsin, who ran as an independent politician. Yeltsin defeated the Communist Party of the Russian Federation challenger Gennady Zyuganov in the second round, receiving 54.4% of the vote. Yeltsin's second inauguration ceremony took place on 9 August 1996.
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The Daïat Labguer (M'sila) massacre took place on June 16, 1997 - less than two weeks after parliamentary elections - in the hamlet of Daïat Labguer (M'sila) (also (mis)spelled Dairat Labguar, Dairat Lebguar, Daïat Labguer, Daïret Lebguer, Dairet Lebguer) near M'sila, 300 km southeast of Algiers. About 50 people were killed by some 30 guerrillas, who also kidnapped women, killed the livestock, and stole jewels. Five days earlier, another 17 had been killed at a village some 5 km away. The massacre was attributed to Islamist groups such as the GIA.
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The 1999 Cupa României final was the 61st final of Romania's most prestigious cup competition. The final was played at the Stadionul Naţional in Bucharest on 16 June 1999 and was contested between Divizia A sides Steaua București and Rapid București. The cup was won by Steaua on penalties.
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On 16 June 2001, Mexico played Costa Rica in a football match at the Estadio Azteca in Mexico City, Mexico on the fourth matchday of the final round in the qualification process for the 2002 FIFA World Cup. Mexico and Costa Rica reached the matchday with four points, both losing as visitors against the United States.
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The 2001 Cupa României final was the 63rd final of Romania's most prestigious cup competition. The final was played at the Stadionul Naţional in Bucharest on 16 June 2001 and was contested between Divizia A sides Dinamo București and Rocar București. The cup was won by Dinamo.
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The French legislative elections took place on 9 June and 16 June 2002 to elect the 12th National Assembly of the Fifth Republic, in a context of political crisis. The Socialist Prime Minister Lionel Jospin announced his political retirement after his elimination at the first round of the 2002 French presidential election. President Jacques Chirac was easily reelected, all the Republican parties having called to block far-right leader Jean-Marie Le Pen. Chirac's conservative supporters created the Union for the Presidential Majority (Union pour la majorité présidentielle or UMP) to prepare for the legislative elections.
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2002 Egypt Cup final, was the final match of 2001–02 Egypt Cup, when Zamalek played Baladeyet El-Mahalla at Cairo Stadium in Cairo. Zamalek won the game 1–0, claiming the cup for the 18th time.
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Pope John Paul II canonized the Capuchin friar Padre Pio during a ceremony at the Vatican.
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The 2003 general election was held in the British Virgin Islands on 16 June 2003. It was won by the opposition National Democratic Party (NDP), which took 54.4% of the vote and 8 of the 13 available seats on the Legislative Council. After the election the NDP formed a Government for the first time in its history. Both major parties - the NDP and the Virgin Islands Party (VIP) actually increased their share of the overall vote at the expense of minority parties and independents. No independents or any minority parties won any seats. The NDP won all four of the territorial-at-large seats.
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Two leadership spills of the Australian Labor Party (ALP), the official opposition party in the Parliament of Australia, were held on 16 June 2003 and 2 December 2003, respectively. The Opposition Leader, Simon Crean, won the ballot in June against former opposition leader Kim Beazley, but resigned as leader in late November after losing support from his colleagues and did not contest the December ballot which Mark Latham won against Kim Beazley.
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The 2005 Hong Kong Chief Executive election was held to fill the vacancy of the territory's top office. Then Chief Executive Tung Chee-hwa submitted his resignation to the central government in Beijing, and was officially approved on 12 March. As Donald Tsang, Chief Secretary for Administration in Tung's cabinet, was the only candidate, he was declared elected unopposed on 16 June.
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The 2006 Egypt Cup final was the 74th final of the Egypt Cup, Africa's oldest football cup competition. It was played on 16 June 2006 at Cairo Stadium in Cairo and was contested between Al Ahly and Zamalek. The winners would have entered the 2007 CAF Confederation Cup if they had not already qualified.
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The Hsuehshan Tunnel (Chinese: 雪山隧道), formally known as Pinglin Tunnel (坪林隧道), is the longest highway tunnel in Taiwan, located on the National Freeway 5. It opened on June 16, 2006.
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Operation Marne Torch refers to two operations launched by Coalition forces in 2007 against al-Qaeda in Iraq in the Arab Jabour area of Babil province. This campaign is named after Operation Torch, the joint US/British invasion of French North Africa in 1942, presumably because of the two operations' similar thrust in to the enemies southern underbelly. The first operation, Marne Torch I began on 16 June 2007, when Multinational Division Central launched offensive operations against Sunni and Shi'ia extremists, as well as insurgents with Iranian influence in the city and surrounding regions of Arab Jabour in Babil province.
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Operation Phantom Thunder began on 16 June 2007, when Multi-National Force-Iraq launched major offensive operations against al-Qaeda and other extremist terrorists operating throughout Iraq. Operation Phantom Thunder was a corps level operation, including Operation Arrowhead Ripper in Diyala Province, Operation Marne Torch and Operation Commando Eagle in Babil Province, Operation Fardh al-Qanoon in Baghdad, Operation Alljah in Anbar Province, and continuing special forces actions against the Mahdi Army in southern Iraq and against Al-Qaeda leadership throughout the country. The operation was one of the biggest military operations in Iraq since the U.S. invasion in 2003.
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The Samoan Fono elected the second o le Ao o le Malo (the head of state of Samoa) on June 16, 2007 after the death of the country's head of state for four and a half decades, Malietoa Tanumafili II, in May 2007. Former Prime Minister Tupuola Taisi Tufuga Efi was elected unopposed by the 49-member strong parliament.
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UFC 72: Victory was a mixed martial arts event held by the Ultimate Fighting Championship. The event took place Saturday, 16 June 2007 at The Odyssey in Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom.
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The 2008 Algerian Cup final was the 44th final of the Algerian Cup. The final took place on June 16, 2008, at Stade Mustapha Tchaker in Blida with kick-off at 16:00. JSM Béjaïa beat WA Tlemcen 3–1 on penalties to win their first Algerian Cup.
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On June 16, 2009, Malian forces clashed with jihadists from Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb in Garn-Akassa, Kidal Region, Mali.
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Strikeforce: Los Angeles, was a mixed martial arts event held by Strikeforce. The event took place on June 16, 2010, at Nokia Theatre in Los Angeles, California.
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Bhutan's tobacco law came into effect after receiving royal assent. It prohibited the cultivation, manufacture, sale and distribution of tobacco and restricted imports for personal use.
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Rey del Ring (2011) (Spanish for "King of the Ring") was an annual professional wrestling major event produced by Mexican professional wrestling promotion International Wrestling Revolution Group (IWRG), which took place on June 16, 2011, in Arena Naucalpan, Naucalpan, State of Mexico, Mexico. The main event of the show was the Eponymous IWRG Rey del Ring tournament, the ninth version of the annual tournament, which is IWRG's version of WWE's Royal Rumble event. The Rey del Ring returned to IWRG's regular schedule in 2011 after no event was held in 2010, making the event the 10th overall tournament since 2002.
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The Zliten uprising was a local uprising in the Libyan Civil War, started by rebel anti-Gaddafi forces against loyalist pro-Gaddafi forces in the city of Zliten. The city was of strategic importance due to its close proximity to the capital of Tripoli. After Zliten, only two cities – Khoms and Tajura – separated the rebel stronghold of Misrata from Tripoli.
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On June 16, 2011, al-Qaeda announced through jihadist websites that Ayman al-Zawahiri had succeeded Osama bin Laden as its leader. Bin Laden had been killed in a U.S. operation on May 2. The online announcement made al-Zawahiri's succession public; the source does not establish a physical location for the announcement.
June 16 dates the public online announcement of al-Zawahiri's succession, not a documented in-person appointment.
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A parliamentary by-election was held in Bahrain on June 16, 2012, to elect a new member of the Council of Representatives for District 8 of the Muharraq Governorate. The seat was vacated after the previous incumbent Ghanim Al Buainain was appointed as the Minister of State for Foreign Affairs in April. The winner of the elections was former Muharraq Municipal Councillor Sameer Kadhem, decided in a run-off vote held on June 23, 2012. The turnout of the first round of voting was 37.2%, as a total of 3,029 votes were cast out of a total 8,128 registered voters.
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The 68th Hong Kong–Macau Interport is an association football match held in Macau on 16 June 2012. Macau are the defending champions as they captured the champion by winning 1-0 last year.
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Shenzhou 9 (Chinese: 神舟九号) was the fourth crewed spacecraft flight of China's Shenzhou program, launched at 18:37:24 CST (10:37:24 UTC), 16 June 2012. Shenzhou 9 was the second spacecraft and first crewed mission and expedition to dock with the Tiangong-1 space station, which took place on 18 June. The Shenzhou 9 spacecraft landed at 10:01:16 CST (02:01:16 UTC) on 29 June in the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region.
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The U.S. Air Force’s X-37B spaceplane landed at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California after more than 15 months in orbit. The spacecraft flew the OTV-2 test mission without a crew.
Vandenberg Air Force Base, California, United States · Exploration · Checked 2026-11-07
The Chambani by-election was a by-election held for the Tanzanian parliamentary constituency of Chambani. It was triggered by the death of Salim Khamis, the previous Member of Parliament (MP) who had held the seat for the Civic United Front (CUF) since 2010. The by-election took place on 16 June 2013 and the CUF candidate won by a landslide.
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The Baghdad Cup (Arabic: كأس بغداد) was a friendly football match hosted by Al-Shaab Stadium to conclude the Festival of Brotherhood, Love and Peace (Arabic: مهرجان التأخي والمحبة والسلام), an event organised by the Iraqi Ministry of Youth and Sports on 16 June 2013. The match was contested by two of the country's top clubs, Al-Shorta and Al-Zawraa, and fans were allowed free entry into the stadium for the occasion.
Baghdad, Iraq · Sport · Checked 2026-09-23
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A by-election was held in the 12th district of Bangkok on 16 June 2013.
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The 2013 Payback was a professional wrestling pay-per-view (PPV) event produced by WWE. It was the inaugural Payback and took place on June 16, 2013, at the Allstate Arena in the Chicago suburb of Rosemont, Illinois. The concept of the event was based around wrestlers seeking payback against their opponents. Eight professional wrestling matches were contested at the event, including one on the Kickoff pre-show.
Illinois, United States · Chicago, United States · Arts & culture · Checked 2026-09-24
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Heavy rain and floods struck Uttarakhand in northern India, sending torrents of water and debris down mountain valleys. The floods devastated communities and pilgrimage routes around Kedarnath over June 16 and 17.
Kedarnath area, Uttarakhand · Disasters · Checked 2026-11-05
The fourth annual edition of the Champs-Élysées Film Festival was held from 10 to 16 June 2015.
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France · Arts & culture · Checked 2026-10-18
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Donald Trump announced on June 16, 2015, at Trump Tower in New York City that he would seek the Republican nomination for president of the United States in the 2016 election. The announcement began his first presidential campaign. He later won the Republican nomination and the November 2016 general election.
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The Tooting by-election was a by-election in the constituency of Tooting on 16 June 2016, triggered by the resignation of Sadiq Khan from Parliament following his election as Mayor of London.
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Shanghai Disneyland (Chinese: 上海迪士尼乐园; Pinyin: Shànghǎi díshìní lèyuán, Shanghainese: Zaon-he Diq-zy-nyi Loq-yoe) is a theme park located in Chuansha New Town, Pudong, Shanghai, China, that is part of the Shanghai Disney Resort. The park is operated by Disney Experiences and Shanghai Shendi Group, through a joint venture between the Walt Disney Company and Shendi. Construction began on April 8, 2011. The park opened on June 16, 2016.
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The 2017 China–India border standoff or Doklam standoff was a military border standoff between the Indian Armed Forces and the People's Liberation Army of China over Chinese construction of a road in Doklam, near a trijunction border area known in Chinese as Donglang, or Donglang Caochang (meaning Donglang pasture or grazing field).
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Caristico and Soberano Jr. defeated Ultimo Guerrero and Sanson in the final at Arena Mexico. The tournament pairs established wrestlers with newer talent.
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NXT TakeOver: Chicago II was a 2018 professional wrestling livestreaming event produced by WWE, held exclusively for wrestlers from the promotion's developmental brand, NXT. It was the 20th NXT TakeOver event and the second annual and final TakeOver: Chicago. It took place on Saturday, June 16, 2018, at the Allstate Arena in the Chicago suburb of Rosemont, Illinois as part of that year's Money in the Bank weekend and aired exclusively on the WWE Network.
Illinois, United States · Arts & culture · Checked 2026-09-23
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Verano de Escándalo (2019) (Spanish for "Summer of Scandal") was a major professional wrestling event produced by the Mexican Lucha Libre AAA Worldwide (AAA) promotion event, which took place on June 16, 2019 in Poliforum Zamná in Merida, Yucatán, Mexico. The Verano de Escándalo event has been a regular summer event for AAA since 1997, only skipping the event in 2012, 2013 and 2016. 2019 marking the 20th time AAA has used that name for an event.
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Ka I 21–18 Hang Sai was a football match held on 16 June 2019 involving two teams in Macau. The fixture was part of the 2019 Taça de Macau. Players of both Ka I and Hang Sai decided to use the competitive match as a means of protest against the Macau Football Association for its role in the withdrawal of the Macau national team from the 2022 FIFA World Cup qualifiers.
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The 2019 Mixco mayoral election was held on 16 June 2019. The elections were held alongside the presidential, legislative, municipal and Central American Parliament elections. Incumbent mayor Ernest "Neto" Steve Bran, elected by the Reform Movement (now called Podemos), ran for re-election with the Todos party.
Guatemala · Politics & society · Checked 2026-09-23
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A mayoral election was held in Quetzaltenango on 16 June 2019. The elections were held next to the presidential, legislative, municipal and Central American Parliament elections. Twenty candidates were presented. The previous mayor, Luis Grijalva Minera, did not run for re-election due to possible cases of corruption, as well as ideological discrepancies with the party that postulated him.
Guatemala · Politics & society · Checked 2026-09-23
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The 66th annual Sydney Film Festival was held from 5 to 16 June 2019. Comedy drama film Palm Beach opened the festival and musical romantic comedy film Yesterday was the closing film. Bong Joon-ho's dark comedy thriller film Parasite won the Sydney Film Prize.
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The 2019 Guatemala City mayoral election was held on 16 June 2019.
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ICW I Ain't Yer Pal, Dickface! was a professional wrestling event produced by Insane Championship Wrestling. It took place on June, 16 2019, at The Garage in Glasgow, Scotland. The event featured wrestlers like Kez Evans, BT Gunn, Andy Wild, Jonny Storm, Jack Tomlinson, Joe Hendry and a double championship match between ICW World Heavyweight Champion Lionheart and Union of European Wrestling Alliances European Heavyweight Champion Alexander Dean.
United Kingdom · Arts & culture · Checked 2026-10-18
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The 2019 Antigua Guatemala mayoral election was held on 16 June 2019.
Guatemala · Politics & society · Checked 2026-10-18
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Voters in Villa Nueva, Guatemala, elected Javier Gramajo as mayor. He defeated Domingo Sical and the other candidates in the municipal election held alongside the general election.
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Abraham Rivera Estévez won the mayoral election in Escuintla, Guatemala. The departmental electoral board certified 9,672 votes for his ticket.
Escuintla, Guatemala · Politics & society · Checked 2026-11-06
Bellator 297: Nemkov vs. Romero was a mixed martial arts event produced by Bellator MMA that took place on June 16, 2023, at the Wintrust Arena in Chicago, Illinois, United States.
Chicago, United States · Sport · Checked 2026-09-23
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PFL 5 was a mixed martial arts event produced by the Professional Fighters League that took place on June 16, 2023, at the Overtime Elite Arena in, Atlanta, Georgia, United States. This marked the fifth regular-season event of the tournament and included fights in the Heavyweight and Women's Featherweight divisions.
Atlanta, United States · Sport · Checked 2026-09-23
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The 2023 Plaid Cymru leadership election was triggered by the resignation of Adam Price as party leader on 16 May, after an internal report found the party to have a "culture of harassment, bullying and misogyny". Rhun ap Iorwerth became leader on 16 June 2023 unopposed.
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On June 16, 2024, BG Pathum United beat Muangthong United 1–0 in the Thai League Cup final at Thammasat Stadium in Pathum Thani, Thailand.
Thailand · Sport · Checked 2026-10-23
On 16 June 2024, a hostage situation occurred at a detention center in Rostov-on-Don, Rostov Oblast, Russia. The hostage takers, all Islamic State militants who were previously detained at the center, were shot and killed except one militant captured alive, two employees were rescued. Six men, armed with knives, took two prison guards hostage. The hostage-takers demanded a vehicle, weapons and safe passage out of the center.
Russia · Politics & society · Checked 2026-10-18
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The 71st annual Sydney Film Festival was held from 5 to 16 June 2024. The festival opened with Paul Clarke's documentary film Midnight Oil: The Hardest Line, and closed with Coralie Fargeat's horror film The Substance. Overall the festival screened 197 films, including 28 world premieres and 133 Australian premieres.
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The Bentonville Film Festival (BFF) is an American film festival held annually in Bentonville, Arkansas, that focuses on diversity.
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