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The 16t o Juin is the 167t day o the year (168t in lowp years) in the Gregorian Calendar, wi 198 days ti come.
Events
1903 : Ford Model A1954 : Cairt o Swisserland , host o the Warld Cup1960 : Psycho Hoose632 - Yazdegerd III ascends tae the throne as king (shah Persie Empire . He becomes the last ruler o the Sassanid Dynasty (modren Iran ).1815 - Napoleon haes his last veectory, defeatin a Proushie force in the Battle o Ligny.1858 - Abraham Lincoln haulds his "Hoose Dividit" speech.1891 - John Abbott becomes the 3rd Prime meenister o Canadae .1896 - Breetish passenger steamer "Drummond Castle" collides wi a reef aff the Breton island o Ouessant, an sinks. Oot o 246 fowk on baird, only 3 survive.1903 - Henry Ford founds the Ford Motor Company, wi the Ford Model A bein its first product.1940 - A Communist govrenment is installed in Lithuanie .1954 - The 1954 FIFA Warld Cup in Swisserland stairts.1954 - Scotland loses its first-ever FIFA Warld Cup gemme, 1-0, tae Austrick .1958 - In Hungary , poleetical leader Imre Nagy is executit.1960 - Alfred Hitchcock 's film Psycho is released in cinemas for the first time.1963 - Valentina Tereshkova becomes the first woman in space .1976 - The polis open fire on student protests in Soweto , Sooth Africae .1977 - Leonid Brezhnev becomes Heid o State o the Soviet Union .1989 - Imre Nagy is reburied in Budapest , 31 year efter his execution.1999 - Japan 's heal meenistry permits the use o the contraceptive pill.2001 - US Preses George W. Bush propales the continuation o the US embargo on Cuba .2010 - Bhutan bans tobacco.2012 - Aung San Suu Kyi collects her Nobel Peace Prize .2015 - Donald Trump propales his candidacy for Preses o the Unitit States .2016 - Breetish Member o Pairlament Jo Cox is murthert in her consteetuency.2018 - Iceland becomes the least-populatit kintra tae baith score a goal an pick up a pynt in a FIFA Warld Cup gemme, drawin 1-1 wi Argentinae .2019 - A massive pouer grid failur affects maist o Argentinae an Uruguay , as well as pairts o Paraguay .2020 - 20 Indie sodgers are kilt in a mairch clash wi the Fowkrepublic o Cheenae .2020 - North Korea blows up a jynt liaison affice wi the Sooth .2020 - COVID-19 pandemic : New Zealand reports its first twa cases in 24 days, baith o thaim importit frae the Unitit Kinrick .2020 - COVID-19 pandemic : The nummer o recordit cases warldwide reaches 8 million.
Births
Old Tom Morris Simeon Saxe-Coburg-Gotha 1313 - Giovanni Boccaccio , Italian writer (d. 1375 )1723 - Adam Smith , Scots philosopher an economist (d. 1790 )1821 - Old Tom Morris , Scots gowfer (d. 1908 )1829 - Geronimo , American Apache chief (d. 1909 )1858 - Gustaf V o Swaden (d. 1950 )1874 - Arthur Meighen , 9t Prime meenister o Canadae (d. 1960 )1882 - Norah Neilson Gray , Scots airtist (d. 1931 )1890 - Stan Laurel , Inglis actor, sangster, director an screenwriter (d. 1965 )1902 - Barbara McClintock , American geneticist (d. 1992 )1911 - Bobby Ancell , Scots fitbawer (d. 1987 )1912 - Enoch Powell , Inglis politeecian (d. 1998 )1926 - Jimmy Cowan , Scots fitbawer (d. 1968 )1929 - Jimmy Bonthrone , Scots fitbawer (d. 2008 )1929 - Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah , Emir o Kuwait 1931 - John Grant , Scots fitbawer1937 - Simeon Saxe-Coburg-Gotha , King an Prime Meenister o Bulgarie 1952 - George Papandreou , umwhile Prime meenister o Greece 1954 - Jamie Stone , Scots politeecian1967 - Juergen Klopp , German fitbawer an manager1970 - Phil Mickelson , American gowfer1971 - Tupac Shakur , American rapper (d. 1996 )1972 - Simon Coveney , Erse politeecian1973 - Federica Mogherini , Italian politeecian1975 - Gary Locke , Scots fitbawer1978 - Daniel Bruehl , Spaingie-German actor1984 - Steven Whittaker , Scots fitbawer1990 - John Newman , Inglis sangster1993 - Matthew Carder , Scots badminton player
Daiths
Halidays
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