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- 0632 Origin of Persian [Yezdegird] Era
- 1487 Battle of Stoke Field, the last dying breath of the Wars of the Roses.
- 1567 Mary Queen of Scots thrown into Lochleven Castle prison
- 1586 Mary Queen of Scots recognizes Philip II of Spain as her heir.
- 1671 Cossack rebel leader Stenka Razin tortured, executed in Moscow
- 1743 UK hist (June 27 in Gregorian calendar): Battle of Dettingen – last time a British sovereign (George II) led troops in battle
- 1745 British troops take Cape Breton Island, which is now part of Nova Scotia, Canada.
- 1745 Sir William Pepperell captures the French Fortress 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.
- 1755 British capture Fort Beaus‚jour, expel the Acadians
- 1774 Formation of Harrodsburg, Kentucky.
- 1815 Battle of Ligny and Battle of Quatre Bras, two days before Waterloo.
- 1832 Battle of Kellogg's Grove, Ill
- 1836 Formation of the London Working Men's Association begins the Chartist Movement.
- 1846 The Papal conclave of 1846 concludes. Pope Pius IX is elected pope, beginning the longest reign in the history of the papacy (not counting St. Peter).
- 1858 Abraham Lincoln accepts the Republican nomination for the U.S. Senate in Illinois.
- 1858 Abraham Lincoln says "A house divided against itself cannot stand"
- 1858 Battle of Morar, during the Indian Mutiny.
- 1864 Siege of Petersburg & Richmond begins
- 1871 Ancient Arabic Order of Nobles of the Mystic Shrine founded, NYC
- 1871 University Tests Act allows students to enter the Universities of Oxford, Cambridge and Durham without religious tests, except for courses in theology.
- 1879 Gilbert & Sullivan's "HMS Pinafore" debuts at Bowery Theatre NYC
- 1882 17" hailstones weighing 1.75 lbs fall in Dubuque Iowa
- 1884 The first roller coaster in the U.S. begins operation at Coney Island, NY.
- 1891 John Abbott becomes Canada's third prime minister.
- 1893 F.W. Rueckheim introduces Cracker Jack® at the World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago's First World Fair
- 1896 Temperture hits 127øF at Fort Mojave, Calif
- 1902 The Broadway Limited goes into service for the Pennsylvania Railroad to begin a career of more than 75 years on the route between New York and Chicago
- 1903 Ford Motor Company incorporates.
- 1903 Roald Amundsen commences first east-west navigation of the Northwest Passage by leaving Oslo, Norway.
- 1904 Bloomsday (date of events in James Joyce's Ulysses)
- 1904 Eugen Schauman assassinates Nikolai Bobrikov, Governor-General of Finland.
- 1904 Irish author James Joyce begins a relationship with Nora Barnacle, and subsequently uses the date to set the actions for his novel Ulysses
- 1909 The first US airplane sold commercially, by Glenn Curtiss for $5,000
- 1911 A 772 gram stony meteorite struck earth near Kilbourn, Columbia County, Wisconsin damaging a barn.
- 1915 Foundation of the British Women's Institute
- 1917 The first Congress of Soviets convene in Russia
- 1922 General election in Irish Free State: large majority to pro-Treaty Sinn Fin.
- 1922 Henry Berliner demonstrates his helicopter to US Bureau of Aeronautics
- 1924 Whampoa Military Academy is founded.
- 1925 The most famous Young Pioneer camp of the USSR, Artek established.
- 1927 Tommy Armour wins golf's US open
- 1930 Sovnarkom establishes decree time in the USSR.
- 1932 Pres Hoover & VP Charles Curtis renominated by Rep Convention
- 1933 National Industrial Recovery Act becomes law (later struck down)
- 1933 US Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) created
- 1940 A Communist government is installed in Lithuania.
- 1940 Commuinist govt installed in Lithuania
- 1940 HMS GRAMPUS,sunk off Augusta, eastern Sicily in Ionian Sea by Italian torpedo boats 'Circe' and 'Clio'.
- 1940 World War II: Marshal Henri Philippe Ptain becomes Premier of Vichy France.
- 1941 The first US federally owned airport opened Wash DC
- 1943 Race riot in Beaumont Texas (2 die)
- 1947 Pravda denounces Marshall Plan
- 1947 The first network news-Dumont's "News from Washington"
- 1948 Start of Malayan Emergency
- 1948 The storming of the cockpit of the Miss Macao passenger seaplane, operated by a subsidiary of the Cathay Pacific Airways, marks the first skyjacking of a commercial plane.
- 1949 Gas turbine-electric locomotive demonstrated, Erie Pa
- 1952 Anne Frank: Diary of a Young Girl is published in the United States.
- 1955 Pope Pius XII ex-communicated Argentine Pres Juan Peron
- 1959 Visitor posting - eddie godfrey was born. birmingham is now a better place - USA
- 1960 Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho opens in New York.
- 1961 Ballet performer Rudolf Nureyev defects from the Soviet Union while in Paris.
- 1961 Dave Garroway is fired as Today Show host
- 1963 Levi Eshkol replaces David Ben-Gurion as Israeli PM
- 1963 Soviet Space Program: Vostok 6 Mission, Cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova becomes the first woman in space.
- 1963 Valentina Tereshkova becomes first woman in space, aboard Vostok 6
- 1964 Quake strikes Niigata Japan
- 1967 50,000 attend Monterey International Pop Festival
- 1968 Visitor posting - Brian Grammer was born in Illinois. The world instantly became a better place. - USA
- 1969 Supreme Court rules suspension of Adam Clayton Powell Jr from House
- 1970 Kenneth A Gibson elected first black mayor of Newark, NJ
- 1970 Race riots in Miami Florida
- 1971 Racial disturbance in Jacksonville Florida
- 1971 Visitor posting - tupac shakur is born - Canada
- 1972 Largest single-site hydro-electric power project in Canada starts at Churchill Falls, Labrador.
- 1972 Red Army Faction member Ulrike Meinhof is captured by police in Langenhagen.
- 1973 Number one hit on UK music charts - Suzi Quatro - Can The Can
- 1974 Visitor posting - erica mitchell was born - USA
- 1974 Visitor posting - Anand Desai of Valsad was born on this day - India
- 1975 Randy Farland finds a 14-leaf clover near Sioux Falls, SD
- 1976 Apartheid: A non-violent march by 15,000 students in Soweto, South Africa turns into days of rioting when police open fire on the crowd and kill 566 children.
- 1976 Visitor posting - Lordjay Espinoza Mercado was born! - USA
- 1977 "Beatlemania" opens on Broadway
- 1977 Leonid Brezhnev is named president of the Soviet Union.
- 1977 Visitor posting - B.J. Turner was born! - USA
- 1977 Oracle Corporation was incorporated in Redwood Shores, California as Software Development Laboratories (SDL) by Larry Ellison, Bob Miner and Ed Oates.
- 1977 Wernher von Braun, rocket scientist, dies at age 65.
- 1978 Visitor posting - Dr. Andrew Clark McAfee born, Indianapolis Indiana
- 1978 Release of Grease movie.
- 1978 Ringo releases "Bad Boy" album; Wings releases "I've Had Enough"
- 1979 Carl Yastrzemski hits his 1,000th extra base hit
- 1979 Visitor posting - June 16, 1979 - Katie Clark of New Orleans was born.
- 1979 Number one hit on UK music charts - Anita Ward - Ring My Bell
- 1980 Visitor posting - P. Murphy hired at Caterpillar Inc. - USA
- 1982 Britain requests Argentina arrange for return of prisoners after their War
- 1982 Visitor posting - June 16, 1982 Jessica Hernandez was born to parents Juanita and Lorenzo Hernandez Sr. in San Antonio, Texas, USA
- 1983 Charlos Vieira completes 191 hr "nonstop" cycling in Leiria Portugal
- 1983 Ringo releases "Old Wave" album in West Germany
- 1983 Yuri Andropov becomes president of the USSR.
- 1984 Matt de Waal finishes 14,290-mi round trip from Salt Lake City (106d)
- 1984 Number one hit on UK music charts - Frankie Goes To Hollywood - Two Tribes
- 1986 1 day general strike in South Africa
- 1987 Joe Robbie Stadium in Miami, opens
- 1988 In Santa Barbara, CA, a team of 32 divers begin cycling underwater on a standard tricycle, to complete 116.66 mi in 75 hrs 20 mins (why?)
- 1988 Visitor posting - June 16, 1988 'Kaci' Casey Danielle Ayers was born at Rapides Hospital in Alexandria, Louisiana to J. Steve Ayers
- 1989 "Ghostbusters II" premiers
- 1989 4 golfers shoot a hole-in-one on the same hole at the US Open are made all on the 6th hole (Weaver, Wiebe, Pate & Price)
- 1989 Historic reburial of Imre Nagy, the former Hungarian Prime Minister in Budapest.
- 1990 Visitor posting - Alexandra Helen Rattray born 11.26 a.m. - United Kingdom
- 1991 Boris Yeltsin elected president of Russian SSR
- 1991 NYC Mayor Dinkins declares "Joseph Doherty Week" (through the 23rd)
- 1993 Visitor posting - Corinna Hill born in easton hospital at 7:10 pm.
- 1994 A Chinese operated Tupolev TU-154 crashes 10 minutes after takeoff killing 160.
- 1996 First round of voting in the Russian presidential election.
- 1997 Corporation du chemin de fer de la Gaspésie takes over the former CN line between Chandler and Gaspé, Que. This is a non profit corporation owned by local municipalities. Operation of the line is sub-contracted to the Chemin de fer Baie des Chaleurs which commenced operation between Matapedia and Chandler, Que in December 1996.
- 1997 Dairat Labguer massacre in Algeria; some 50 people killed.
- 1999 Maurice Greene sets a new 100m world record at 9.79 seconds. This is the largest drop in a 100m world record in the history of electronic timing from Donovan Bailey's 9.84.
- 1999 Thabo Mbeki elected President of South Africa.
- 2000 Israel complies with UN Security Council Resolution 425 after 22 years of it issuance, which calls on Israel to completely withdraw from Lebanon. Israel withdrew from all of Lebanon, except the disputed Sheba Farms.
- 2001 Visitor posting - Cam Auerbach was born - USA
- 2005 Visitor posting - June 16, 2005 esperanza yasmine herrera was born in oakland, c.a at 3:19pm
- 2009 Visitor posting - Dominic Anthony Aguilar better known as "Lil Sexy Aguilar" was born. He has been melting hearts eversince. - USA
- 2009 Visitor posting - Dylan Riley Carver was born in Beverly Hills CA. The world became a much happier place to live! - Virgin Islands (US)
- 2010 Fifteen people were killed and 12 were missing after flash floods hit the southern French region of Var,
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