June 16
1487 - The Battle of Stoke ended the War of the Roses.
1812 - The City Bank of New York (later Citibank) opened for business.
1858 - U.S. Senate candidate Abraham Lincoln declared, "a house divided against itself cannot stand."
1897 - The United States signed a treaty of annexation with Hawaii.
1903 - Ford Motor Co. was incorporated.
1904 - Events in James Joyce's novel Ulysses took place on this day, which is celebrated as Bloomsday, for the main character, Leopold Bloom.
1911 - The forerunner of IBM was incorporated in New York State as the Computing-Tabulating-Recording Co.
1932 - President Herbert Hoover was renominated at the Republican National Convention in Chicago.
1933 - President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed the National Industrial Recovery Act. (The Act was later struck down by the U.S. Supreme Court.) The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. was founded as President Roosevelt signed the Banking Act of 1933.
1955 - Members of Argentina’s military bombarded the Plaza de Mayo in Buenos Aires in a failed attempt to assassinate President Juan Domingo Peron and his Cabinet, causing hundreds of civilian deaths, the same day Peron was excommunicated by Pope Pius XII for expelling two bishops from his country (however, the ban was effectively lifted in 1963).
1959 - Actor George Reeves, TV’s “Superman,” was found dead of an apparently self-inflicted gunshot wound in the bedroom of his Beverly Hills, California, home; he was 45.
1963 - Valentina Tereshkova of the Soviet Union became the first woman in space.
1967 - The three-day Monterey International Pop Music Festival - which catapulted Jimi Hendrix, the Who and Janis Joplin to stardom - opened in northern California.
1976 - Riots broke out in the black South African township of Soweto.
1978 - President Jimmy Carter and Panamanian leader Omar Torrijos exchanged the instruments of ratification for the Panama Canal treaties.
1987 - A jury in New York acquitted Bernhard Goetz of attempted murder in the subway shooting of four young blacks he said were going to rob him; he was convicted of illegal weapons possession.
1996 - Russians voted in their first independent presidential election. (Boris Yeltsin eventually won in a runoff.)
1999 - Kathleen Ann Soliah, a fugitive member of the Symbionese Liberation Army, was captured in St. Paul, Minnesota, where she had made a new life under the name Sara Jane Olson.
2004 - The 9/11 Commission determined that Saddam Hussein had no strong links to al-Qaeda, contradicting White House beliefs.
2011 - Rep. Anthony Weiner, D-N.Y., announced his resignation from Congress, bowing to the furor caused by his sexually charged online dalliances with a former porn actress and other women.
2015 - Real estate mogul Donald J. Trump launched his successful campaign to become president of the United States with a speech at Trump Tower in Manhattan.
2016 - Walt Disney Co. opened Shanghai Disneyland, its first theme park in mainland China.
2020 - A statue of Christopher Columbus that stood in a St. Louis park for 134 years was removed; park officials said it had symbolized a “historical disregard for indigenous peoples.”
2020 - British researchers reported the first evidence that a drug could improve survival from COVID-19; the drug was a cheap and widely available steroid (dexamethasone.)
Birthdays
21 - Bianca Andreescu (tennis player)
22 - Lauren Taylor (actress)
23 - Camila Morrone (model)
34 - Ali Stroker (actress)
34 - Diana DeGarmo (singer)
38 - Olivia Hack (actress)
39 - Missy Peregrym (actress)
43 - Daniel Bruhl (actor)
46 - Fred Koehler (actor)
48 - Eddie Cibrian (actor)
49 - John Cho (actor)
51 - Phil Mickelson (golfer)
51 - Clifton Collins Jr. (actor)
53 - James Patrick Stuart (actor)
54 - Jenny Shimizu (actress/model)
57 - Danny Burstein (actor)
59 - Arnold Vosloo (actor)
66 - Laurie Metcalf (actress)
69 - Gino Vannelli (singer)
70 - Roberto Duran (boxer)
72 - Geoff Pierson (actor)
78 - Joan Van Ark (actress)
87 - Bill Cobbs (actor)
87 - Eileen Atkins (actress)
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Today in Sports History - June 16
1938 - Jimmy Foxx (Boston Red Sox) set a major league record when he was walked six times in one game.
1951 - Ben Hogan won the U.S. Open for the second straight year.
1969 - U.S. President Nixon sent a telegram to Reggie Jackson thanking him for hitting two home runs while he was in the park on June 11.
1970 - Chicago Bears running back Brian Piccolo, 26, died at a New York hospital after battling cancer.
1975 - The Milwaukee Bucks traded Kareem-Abdul Jabbar to the Los Angeles Lakers.
1981 - The Chicago Tribune purchased the Chicago Cubs from the P.K. Wrigley Chewing Gum Co. for $20.5 million.
1991 - Otis Nixon (Montreal Expos) broke a major league record with six stolen bases in one game.
1993 - Michael Jordan (Chicago Bulls) scored 55 points in an NBA Finals game against the Phoenix Suns. Jordan became the first player to score 50 points in a Finals games since Jerry West in 1969.
1995 - The 2002 Winter Olympic Games are awarded to Salt Lake City, Utah.
1996 - The Chicago Bulls defeat the Seattle Supersonics in six games tow in the NBA championship, the fourth title in frachise history and fourth in six seasons.
1996 - In Lusaka, Sambia, fans stampeded the field at the World Cup match between Zambia and Sudan. Nine people were killed and 78 were injured.
1998 - The Detroit Red Wings sweep the Washington Capitals to win the Stanley Cup.
2002 - Tiger Woods wins his second U.S. Open.
2005 - The NHL Board of Governors approved the sale of the Disney owned Mighty Ducks of Anaheim to Henry and Susan Samueli.
2008 - Tiger Woods wins his third U.S. Open and 14th major championship.
2015 - The Golden State Warriors defeat the Cleveland Cavaliers in six games to win their first NBA championship in 40 years and fourth in franchise history.
2018 - Video Assistant Referee (VAR) technology is used for the first time in the World Cup, awarding France a penalty in a 2-1 win over Australia.
1487 - The Battle of Stoke ended the War of the Roses.
1812 - The City Bank of New York (later Citibank) opened for business.
1858 - U.S. Senate candidate Abraham Lincoln declared, "a house divided against itself cannot stand."
1897 - The United States signed a treaty of annexation with Hawaii.
1903 - Ford Motor Co. was incorporated.
1904 - Events in James Joyce's novel Ulysses took place on this day, which is celebrated as Bloomsday, for the main character, Leopold Bloom.
1911 - The forerunner of IBM was incorporated in New York State as the Computing-Tabulating-Recording Co.
1932 - President Herbert Hoover was renominated at the Republican National Convention in Chicago.
1933 - President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed the National Industrial Recovery Act. (The Act was later struck down by the U.S. Supreme Court.) The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. was founded as President Roosevelt signed the Banking Act of 1933.
1955 - Members of Argentina’s military bombarded the Plaza de Mayo in Buenos Aires in a failed attempt to assassinate President Juan Domingo Peron and his Cabinet, causing hundreds of civilian deaths, the same day Peron was excommunicated by Pope Pius XII for expelling two bishops from his country (however, the ban was effectively lifted in 1963).
1959 - Actor George Reeves, TV’s “Superman,” was found dead of an apparently self-inflicted gunshot wound in the bedroom of his Beverly Hills, California, home; he was 45.
1963 - Valentina Tereshkova of the Soviet Union became the first woman in space.
1967 - The three-day Monterey International Pop Music Festival - which catapulted Jimi Hendrix, the Who and Janis Joplin to stardom - opened in northern California.
1976 - Riots broke out in the black South African township of Soweto.
1978 - President Jimmy Carter and Panamanian leader Omar Torrijos exchanged the instruments of ratification for the Panama Canal treaties.
1987 - A jury in New York acquitted Bernhard Goetz of attempted murder in the subway shooting of four young blacks he said were going to rob him; he was convicted of illegal weapons possession.
1996 - Russians voted in their first independent presidential election. (Boris Yeltsin eventually won in a runoff.)
1999 - Kathleen Ann Soliah, a fugitive member of the Symbionese Liberation Army, was captured in St. Paul, Minnesota, where she had made a new life under the name Sara Jane Olson.
2004 - The 9/11 Commission determined that Saddam Hussein had no strong links to al-Qaeda, contradicting White House beliefs.
2011 - Rep. Anthony Weiner, D-N.Y., announced his resignation from Congress, bowing to the furor caused by his sexually charged online dalliances with a former porn actress and other women.
2015 - Real estate mogul Donald J. Trump launched his successful campaign to become president of the United States with a speech at Trump Tower in Manhattan.
2016 - Walt Disney Co. opened Shanghai Disneyland, its first theme park in mainland China.
2020 - A statue of Christopher Columbus that stood in a St. Louis park for 134 years was removed; park officials said it had symbolized a “historical disregard for indigenous peoples.”
2020 - British researchers reported the first evidence that a drug could improve survival from COVID-19; the drug was a cheap and widely available steroid (dexamethasone.)
Birthdays
21 - Bianca Andreescu (tennis player)
22 - Lauren Taylor (actress)
23 - Camila Morrone (model)
34 - Ali Stroker (actress)
34 - Diana DeGarmo (singer)
38 - Olivia Hack (actress)
39 - Missy Peregrym (actress)
43 - Daniel Bruhl (actor)
46 - Fred Koehler (actor)
48 - Eddie Cibrian (actor)
49 - John Cho (actor)
51 - Phil Mickelson (golfer)
51 - Clifton Collins Jr. (actor)
53 - James Patrick Stuart (actor)
54 - Jenny Shimizu (actress/model)
57 - Danny Burstein (actor)
59 - Arnold Vosloo (actor)
66 - Laurie Metcalf (actress)
69 - Gino Vannelli (singer)
70 - Roberto Duran (boxer)
72 - Geoff Pierson (actor)
78 - Joan Van Ark (actress)
87 - Bill Cobbs (actor)
87 - Eileen Atkins (actress)
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Today in Sports History - June 16
1938 - Jimmy Foxx (Boston Red Sox) set a major league record when he was walked six times in one game.
1951 - Ben Hogan won the U.S. Open for the second straight year.
1969 - U.S. President Nixon sent a telegram to Reggie Jackson thanking him for hitting two home runs while he was in the park on June 11.
1970 - Chicago Bears running back Brian Piccolo, 26, died at a New York hospital after battling cancer.
1975 - The Milwaukee Bucks traded Kareem-Abdul Jabbar to the Los Angeles Lakers.
1981 - The Chicago Tribune purchased the Chicago Cubs from the P.K. Wrigley Chewing Gum Co. for $20.5 million.
1991 - Otis Nixon (Montreal Expos) broke a major league record with six stolen bases in one game.
1993 - Michael Jordan (Chicago Bulls) scored 55 points in an NBA Finals game against the Phoenix Suns. Jordan became the first player to score 50 points in a Finals games since Jerry West in 1969.
1995 - The 2002 Winter Olympic Games are awarded to Salt Lake City, Utah.
1996 - The Chicago Bulls defeat the Seattle Supersonics in six games tow in the NBA championship, the fourth title in frachise history and fourth in six seasons.
1996 - In Lusaka, Sambia, fans stampeded the field at the World Cup match between Zambia and Sudan. Nine people were killed and 78 were injured.
1998 - The Detroit Red Wings sweep the Washington Capitals to win the Stanley Cup.
2002 - Tiger Woods wins his second U.S. Open.
2005 - The NHL Board of Governors approved the sale of the Disney owned Mighty Ducks of Anaheim to Henry and Susan Samueli.
2008 - Tiger Woods wins his third U.S. Open and 14th major championship.
2015 - The Golden State Warriors defeat the Cleveland Cavaliers in six games to win their first NBA championship in 40 years and fourth in franchise history.
2018 - Video Assistant Referee (VAR) technology is used for the first time in the World Cup, awarding France a penalty in a 2-1 win over Australia.
