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June 16: Encyclopedia - June 16

June 16 is the 167th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (168th in leap years), with 198 days remaining. June 16 - Events. 1487 - Battle of Stoke Field, the last dying breath of the Wars of the Roses 1586 - Mary Queen of Scots recognizes Philip II of Spain as her heir 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, N ...

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June 16 - Events

June 16 - Births

June 16 - Deaths

June 16 - Holidays and observances

Read more here: » June 16: Encyclopedia - June 16

June 16: Encyclopedia II - Births

1858 - Month/day unknown. Percy Andreae, American anti-prohibition leader (d. ?) ...

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1998 - January-February

1998 - March-July

1998 - August-December

1998 - Unknown date

1998 - Nobel Prizes

1998 - Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel

1998 - Fields Medalists

1998 - Templeton Prize

Read more here: » 1998: Encyclopedia - 1998

June 16: Encyclopedia - 1940

1940 (MCMXL) was a leap year starting on Monday (link will take you to calendar). 1940 - Births. See also Category:1940 births January 4 - Brian David Josephson, Welsh physicist, Nobel Prize laureate January 4 - Gao Xingjian, Chinese-born writer, Nobel Prize laureate January 6 - Penny Lernoux, American journalist and author (d. 1989) January 14 - Julian Bond, American civil rights activist January 20 - Carol Heiss, American figure skater < ...

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1940 - Births

1940 - March-April

1940 - May-July

1940 - August-December

1940 - Deaths

1940 - Date unknown

1940 - Nobel Prizes

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June 16: Encyclopedia - 1934

1934 (MCMXXXIV) was a common year starting on Monday (link will take you to calendar). 1934 - Events. January 1 - Alcatraz becomes a federal prison. January 1 - Nazi Germany passes the "Law for the Prevention of Genetically Diseased Offspring." January 7 - First Flash Gordon comic strip is published. January 10 - Execution of Marinus van der Lubbe January 24 - Einstein visits White House January 26 - The Apollo The ...

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1934 - Events

1934 - May-June

1934 - July-September

1934 - October-December

1934 - September-December

1934 - Unknown dates

1934 - Deaths

1934 - Nobel Prizes

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June 16: Encyclopedia - 1980

1980 (MCMLXXX) was a leap year starting on Tuesday. It is equivalent to 2733 a.U.c., and to 1359 AH. 1980 - Events. January 1–April 1 - National steel strike in the United Kingdom. January 1 - Changes to the Swedish Act of Succession creates Victoria of Sweden, Crown Princess over her younger brother. January 4 - American president Jimmy Carter proclaims a grain embargo against the USSR with the support of the European Commission. January 5 - Hewlett-Packard ...

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1980 - Templeton Prize

Read more here: » 1980: Encyclopedia - 1980

June 16: Encyclopedia - 1974

1974 (MCMLXXIV) is a common year starting on Tuesday (click on link for calendar). 1974 - Events. January 5 - Dungeons & Dragons officially released. January 6 - In response to the energy crisis, daylight saving time commences nearly four months early in the United States. January 30 - G. Gordon Liddy found guilty of Watergate charges 1974 - February. February 1 - Fire in Joelman Bank Building in Sao Paulo, Brazil - ...

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1974 - Fields Medalists

1974 - Templeton Prize

Read more here: » 1974: Encyclopedia - 1974

June 16: Encyclopedia - 1971

1971 (MCMLXXI) is a common year starting on Friday (click for link to calendar). 1971 - Events. January 1 - British Divorce Reform Act comes into force January 2 - 66 die in stairway crush at Rangers v Celtic football match, Glasgow, Scotland. See Ibrox disaster. January 2 - A ban on television cigarette advertisements goes into effect in the United States. January 3 - BBC Open University begins in the United Kingdom Januar ...

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Read more here: » 1971: Encyclopedia - 1971

June 16: Encyclopedia - 1970

1970 (MCMLXX) was a common year starting on Thursday. 1970 is the Unix epoch time. 1970 - Events. January 1 - Construction begins on Arcosanti, by Paolo Soleri, in Mayer, Arizona, located 65 miles north of Phoenix, Arizona. January 1 - Unix epoch at 00:00:00 UTC. January 5 - The first episode of All My Children was broadcast on the ABC television network. January 12 - Biafra capitulates, ending the Nigerian civil war. January 15 - After a 32-mo ...

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1970 - Fields Medalists

Read more here: » 1970: Encyclopedia - 1970

June 16: Encyclopedia - 1976

1976 (MCMLXXVI) is a leap year starting on Thursday (link will take you to calendar). 1976 - Events. January 12 - UN Security Council votes 11-1 to admit the Palestinian Liberation Organization January 15 - Would-be Gerald Ford presidential assassin Sara Jane Moore is sentenced to life in prison January 16 - Trial against jailed members of the Red Army Faction begins in Stuttgart, West Germany January 18 - The Scottish Labour Party ...

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1976 - Templeton Prize

Read more here: » 1976: Encyclopedia - 1976

June 16: Encyclopedia - 1977

1977 (MCMLXXVII) was a common year starting on Saturday (the link is to a full 1977 calendar). 1977 - Events. January 10 - Major eruption of Mount Nyiragongo in eastern Zaire. January 17 - Gary Gilmore executed by a firing squad in Utah January 18 - Scientists identify a previously unknown bacterium as the cause of the mysterious "legionnaire's disease" January 18 - Australia experiences its worst railway disaster at Granville, near Sydney, in which 83 people ...

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1977 - September-December

1977 - Nobel Prizes

Read more here: » 1977: Encyclopedia - 1977

June 16: Encyclopedia - Canadian Broadcasting Corporation

The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC), a Canadian crown corporation, is the country's national radio and television broadcaster. In French, it is called la Société Radio-Canada (Radio-Canada or SRC). The umbrella corporate brand is CBC/Radio-Canada. The CBC is the oldest broadcasting service in the country, first established in its present form on November 2, 1936. Radio services include CBC Radio One, CBC Radio Two, La Première Chaîne, Espace musique, and the in ...

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Canadian Broadcasting Corporation - History

Canadian Broadcasting Corporation - Corporate structure and funding

Canadian Broadcasting Corporation - Programming

Canadian Broadcasting Corporation - Television

Canadian Broadcasting Corporation - Radio

Canadian Broadcasting Corporation - Internet

Canadian Broadcasting Corporation - Podcasting

Canadian Broadcasting Corporation - Other ventures

Canadian Broadcasting Corporation - Audio services

Canadian Broadcasting Corporation - Technical services

Canadian Broadcasting Corporation - CBC in other countries

Canadian Broadcasting Corporation - Newsworld International

Canadian Broadcasting Corporation - US border audiences

Canadian Broadcasting Corporation - Carriage of CBC News

Canadian Broadcasting Corporation - CBC Radio

Canadian Broadcasting Corporation - Caribbean and Bermuda

Canadian Broadcasting Corporation - CBC Bureaus

Canadian Broadcasting Corporation - Overseas

Canadian Broadcasting Corporation - Public versus private ownership

Canadian Broadcasting Corporation - Issue of bias

Canadian Broadcasting Corporation - Nicknames

Canadian Broadcasting Corporation - Labour problems

Canadian Broadcasting Corporation - Presidents

Canadian Broadcasting Corporation - Famous people who got their starts on the CBC

June 16: Encyclopedia - 1978

1978 (MCMLXXVIII) was a common year starting on Sunday (the link is to a full 1978 calendar). 1978 - Events. January 1 - The Copyright Act of 1976 takes effect, making sweeping changes to United States copyright law. January 1 - Air India's Boeing 747 explodes near Bombay - 213 dead. January 4 - Referendum in Chile supports policies of Augusto Pinochet. January 6 - The Hungarian Holy Crown (also known as Stephen of Hungary Crown) returned to Hungary from the U ...

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1978 - June-September

1978 - October-December

1978 - Fields Medalists

1978 - Templeton Prize

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June 16: Encyclopedia - 1953

1953 (MCMLIII) is a common year starting on Thursday. 1953 - Events. January 7 - President Harry S. Truman announces the United States has developed a hydrogen bomb. January 12 - Estonian emigres find a government in exile in Oslo January 13 - Marshal Josip Broz Tito chosen President of Yugoslavia January 15 - Georg Dertinger, foreign minister of East Germany, is arrested for spying January 20 - Change of US presidency from Harry S. Truman (1945-1953) ...

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1953 - September—December

1953 - Nobel Prizes

Read more here: » 1953: Encyclopedia - 1953

June 16: Encyclopedia - 1952

1952 (MCMLII) was a leap year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar). 1952 - Events. January 8 - West Germany has 8 million refugees inside its borders. January 24 - Sudden heavy snowfall in Algeria. January 24 - Vincent Massey sworn in as first Canada-born Governor-General of Canada. 1952 - February. February 2 - A tropical storm forms just north of Cuba moving northeast. The storm makes landfall in southe ...

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1952 - Undated events

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June 16: Encyclopedia - Calendar of saints

The calendar of saints is a traditional Christian method of organising a liturgical year on the level of days by associating each day with one or more saints, and referring to the day as the saint's day of that saint. The system arose from the very early Christian custom of annual commemoration of martyrs on the date of their death. As the number of recognized saints increased during Late Antiquity and roughly the first half of the Middle Ages, eventually every day of the year had at least one saint who was commemorated on that ...

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Calendar of saints - January

Calendar of saints - February

Calendar of saints - March

Calendar of saints - April

Calendar of saints - May

Calendar of saints - June

Calendar of saints - July

Calendar of saints - August

Calendar of saints - September

Calendar of saints - October

Calendar of saints - November

Calendar of saints - December

June 16: Encyclopedia - 1947

1947 (MCMXLVII) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will take you to calendar). 1947 - Events. January 1 - British mines nationalized January 1 - Nigeria gains limited autonomy January 1 - The Canadian Citizenship Act went into effect January 3 - Proceedings of the U.S. Congress are televised for the first time January 10 - United Nations takes control of the free city of Trieste January 15 - Elizabeth Short (the "Black Dahlia") is ...

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1947 - September-October

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June 16: Encyclopedia - Seattle, Washington

Location of Seattle in King County and Washington Seattle is the largest city in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States. It is located in the U.S. state of Washington between Puget Sound and Lake Washington, nearly 108 miles (174 km) south of the United States–Canadian border in King County, of which it is the county seat. Seattle was founded in the 1850s and named after Chief Seattle, or Sealth. As of 2004, the population estimates of the city given by the U.S. Census Bureau was 571,480, howeve ...

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Seattle, Washington - History

Seattle, Washington - Major events

Seattle, Washington - Economic history

Seattle, Washington - Geography and climate

Seattle, Washington - Geography

Seattle, Washington - Climate

Seattle, Washington - Demographics

Seattle, Washington - Government and politics

Seattle, Washington - Official nickname, flower, slogan, and song

Seattle, Washington - Seattle mayors of note

Seattle, Washington - Sister cities

Seattle, Washington - Economy

Seattle, Washington - Education

Seattle, Washington - Culture

Seattle, Washington - Landmarks

Seattle, Washington - Annual cultural events and fairs

Seattle, Washington - Performing arts

Seattle, Washington - Museums and art collections

Seattle, Washington - Other cultural institutions

Seattle, Washington - Media

Seattle, Washington - Sports

Seattle, Washington - Infrastructure

Seattle, Washington - Transportation

Seattle, Washington - Street layout

Seattle, Washington - Medical centers and hospitals

Seattle, Washington - Utilities

Seattle, Washington - Gallery

Seattle, Washington - Sources

June 16: Encyclopedia - 1890

Canada - Mexico - South Africa - U.S. Rail Transport - Science - Sports Births - Deaths 1890 (MDCCCXC) was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Friday of the Julian calendar). 1890 - Events. January 2 - Alice Sanger becomes the first female staffer for the U.S. White House. January 9 - Phi Beta Sigma fraternity founded January 25 - The United Mine Workers of America is founded.< ...

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1890 - July-September

1890 - October-December

1890 - Unknown date

1890 - Deaths

1890 - Date unknown

Read more here: » 1890: Encyclopedia - 1890

June 16: Encyclopedia - 1897

Canada - Mexico - South Africa - U.S. Rail Transport - Science - Sports Births - Deaths 1897 was a common year starting on Friday (see link for calendar). 1897 - Events. January 1 - Brooklyn, New York merges with New York City. January 4 - A British force is ambushed by Chief Ologbosere, son-in-law of the Oba of Benin. This leads to a Punitive Expedition against Benin. February 2 - Harrisburg, the Pennsylvania state capitol, is destroyed by fire. ...