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 - The National Industrial Recovery Act became law with President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s signature. (The Act was later struck down by the U.S. Supreme Court.)
1933 - The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. was founded as President Roosevelt signed the Banking Act of 1933.
1941 - National Airport (now Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport) opened for business with a ceremony attended by President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
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.
1970 - Kenneth A. Gibson of Newark, New Jersey, became the first Black politician elected mayor of a major Northeast city.
1976 - Riots broke out in the black South African township of Soweto.
1977 - Soviet Communist Party General Secretary Leonid Brezhnev was named president, becoming the first person to hold both posts simultaneously.
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 - Russia voted in its first independent presidential election. Boris Yeltsin eventually won in a runoff.
1999 - Thabo Mbeki took the oath as president of South Africa, succeeding Nelson Mandela.
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.
2011 - Osama bin Laden’s longtime second-in-command, Ayman al-Zawahri, took control of al-Qaida.
2012 - China launched its most ambitious space mission to date, carrying its first female astronaut, Liu Yang, and two male colleagues on a 13-day mission to an orbiting module that ended safely.
2015 - Real estate mogul Donald 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.
2017 - President Donald Trump acknowledged for the first time that he was under federal investigation as part of the expanding probe into Russia’s election meddling as he lashed out at a top Justice Department official overseeing the inquiry.
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.”
Birthdays
22 - Bianca Andreescu (tennis player)
24 - Lauren Taylor (actress)
25 - Camila Morrone (model)
34 - Banks (singer)
35 - Ali Stroker (actress)
35 - Diana DeGarmo (singer)
39 - Olivia Hack (actress)
40 - Missy Peregrym (actress)
44 - Daniel Bruhl (actor)
47 - Fred Koehler (actor)
49 - Eddie Cibrian (actor)
50 - John Cho (actor)
52 - Phil Mickelson (golfer)
52 - Clifton Collins Jr. (actor)
54 - James Patrick Stuart (actor)
55 - Jenny Shimizu (actress/model)
58 - Danny Burstein (actor)
60 - Arnold Vosloo (actor)
67 - Laurie Metcalf (actress)
71 - Roberto Duran (boxer)
73 - Geoff Pierson (actor)
79 - Joan Van Ark (actress)
80 - Eddie Levert (singer)
84 - Billy "Crash" Craddock (singer)
88 - Bill Cobbs (actor)
88 - 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.
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 baseball team from the P.K. Wrigley Chewing Gum Company for $20.5 million.
1985 - Willie Banks broke the world record for the triple jump with a leap of 58 feet, 11-1/2 inches in the U.S.A. championships in Indianapolis.
1991 - Otis Nixon (Montreal Expos) broke a major league record with six stolen bases in one game.
1991 - The Minnesota Twins win a franchise record 15th straight 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 - It was announced that Salt Lake City, Utah had been awarded the 2002 Winter Olympic Games.
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.
1996 - The Chicago Bulls defeat the Seattle Supersonics in six games to win their fourth NBA championship in six seasons.
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.
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.
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 - The National Industrial Recovery Act became law with President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s signature. (The Act was later struck down by the U.S. Supreme Court.)
1933 - The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. was founded as President Roosevelt signed the Banking Act of 1933.
1941 - National Airport (now Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport) opened for business with a ceremony attended by President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
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.
1970 - Kenneth A. Gibson of Newark, New Jersey, became the first Black politician elected mayor of a major Northeast city.
1976 - Riots broke out in the black South African township of Soweto.
1977 - Soviet Communist Party General Secretary Leonid Brezhnev was named president, becoming the first person to hold both posts simultaneously.
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 - Russia voted in its first independent presidential election. Boris Yeltsin eventually won in a runoff.
1999 - Thabo Mbeki took the oath as president of South Africa, succeeding Nelson Mandela.
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.
2011 - Osama bin Laden’s longtime second-in-command, Ayman al-Zawahri, took control of al-Qaida.
2012 - China launched its most ambitious space mission to date, carrying its first female astronaut, Liu Yang, and two male colleagues on a 13-day mission to an orbiting module that ended safely.
2015 - Real estate mogul Donald 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.
2017 - President Donald Trump acknowledged for the first time that he was under federal investigation as part of the expanding probe into Russia’s election meddling as he lashed out at a top Justice Department official overseeing the inquiry.
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.”
Birthdays
22 - Bianca Andreescu (tennis player)
24 - Lauren Taylor (actress)
25 - Camila Morrone (model)
34 - Banks (singer)
35 - Ali Stroker (actress)
35 - Diana DeGarmo (singer)
39 - Olivia Hack (actress)
40 - Missy Peregrym (actress)
44 - Daniel Bruhl (actor)
47 - Fred Koehler (actor)
49 - Eddie Cibrian (actor)
50 - John Cho (actor)
52 - Phil Mickelson (golfer)
52 - Clifton Collins Jr. (actor)
54 - James Patrick Stuart (actor)
55 - Jenny Shimizu (actress/model)
58 - Danny Burstein (actor)
60 - Arnold Vosloo (actor)
67 - Laurie Metcalf (actress)
71 - Roberto Duran (boxer)
73 - Geoff Pierson (actor)
79 - Joan Van Ark (actress)
80 - Eddie Levert (singer)
84 - Billy "Crash" Craddock (singer)
88 - Bill Cobbs (actor)
88 - 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.
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 baseball team from the P.K. Wrigley Chewing Gum Company for $20.5 million.
1985 - Willie Banks broke the world record for the triple jump with a leap of 58 feet, 11-1/2 inches in the U.S.A. championships in Indianapolis.
1991 - Otis Nixon (Montreal Expos) broke a major league record with six stolen bases in one game.
1991 - The Minnesota Twins win a franchise record 15th straight 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 - It was announced that Salt Lake City, Utah had been awarded the 2002 Winter Olympic Games.
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.
1996 - The Chicago Bulls defeat the Seattle Supersonics in six games to win their fourth NBA championship in six seasons.
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.
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.
