June 16 is the 167th day of the year (168th in leap years) according to the Gregorian calendar. There are 198 days remaining until the end of the year.
Events
- 1815 – Napoleon's final victory, the Battle of Ligny, took place two days before the famous Battle of Waterloo.
- 1869-Davut Pasha made some arrangements with Hirsch on the contract.
- 1903 - Ford Motor Company was founded.
- 1903 - Pepsi Cola Company registered its brand and emblem.
- 1919 – Merzifon revolt.
- 1919 – Yörük Ali Efe destroyed the Greek detachment.
- 1920 - The Band-Aid was invented by Earle Dickson.
- 1924 – in Trabzon “New WayThe start of the daily newspaper ”.
- 1932 – Government ban on Nazi paramilitary organizations SA and SS is lifted in Germany.
- 1934 – The visit of Iranian Shah Reza Pahlavi to Turkey began.
- 1938 – General Directorate of Physical Education was established. Sports are now under state control.
- 1940 - Henri Philippe Pétain becomes Prime Minister of France after the German occupation.
- 1940 – Communist rule is established in Lithuania.
- 1949 – The State Theater and Opera Establishment Law came into effect and Muhsin Ertuğrul was appointed as the General Manager.
- 1950 – The Turkish Grand National Assembly passed the law on the Arabic reading of the Turkish-language call to prayer.
- 1952 – Ottoman dynasty women were allowed to return to Turkey.
- 1960 – Former Prime Minister Adnan Menderes, who was imprisoned in Yassıada, had a nervous breakdown and was taken to the infirmary.
- 1961 – Work started for the first Turkish Automobile Project “Devrim Automobile”.
- 1961 - Russian ballet dancer Rudolf Nureyev defected to the West.
- 1963 – Russian cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova, launched into Earth orbit aboard Vostok 6, becomes the first woman to travel into space.
- 1964 – American black rights leader Martin Luther King wins the Nobel Peace Prize.
- 1967 – Shah of Iran Mohammad Reza Pahlavi and his wife Shahbanu Farah Pahlavi came to Turkey.
- 1968 – Sırrı Acar became the champion in the European Greco-Roman Wrestling Championship.
- 1970 – On 15 June, the workers marched from Gebze to Izmit towards Istanbul. These events, called the workers' resistance on 15-16 June, with the participation of the workers in the places passed during the march, ended with the death of 5 people and the declaration of martial law in Istanbul and Kocaeli.
- 1973 – Prepared in partnership with TRT – MEB, University Entrance Exam Preparation Courses started broadcasting on television.
- 1976 – South African Police opened fire on students protesting Afrikaans education in the town of Soweto, where black people live, killing 600 students.
- 1983 - Yuri Andropov became Prime Minister of the USSR.
- 1987 – Iranian Prime Minister Mir Hussein Mousavi, who visited Turkey, did not visit Anıtkabir. Erdal İnönü laid a black wreath in front of the Prime Ministry.
- 1988 – Mehmet Ali Birand's “Here is PKK, here is ApoBecause of his interview titled ”, Milliyet newspaper was collected.
- 1991 – Prime Minister Yıldırım Akbulut gave his resignation to President Turgut Özal.
- 1994 – The historical Quran stolen from the Amasya Library was found in the garden of Ayşegül Tecimer's mansion.
- 1994 – The Constitutional Court decided to close the Democracy Party (DEP) and terminate the membership of 5 Members of Parliament, 13 of whom were in prison.
- 2000 – The 9th President Süleyman Demirel was awarded the “State Medal of Honor”.
- 2002 – A Russian river type ship named “Modisk” and a passenger boat named “Aqua-2” collided in the Bosphorus. The bodies of 4 of the 2 passengers lost in the sinking boat were found.
- 2007 - Indian-American astronaut Sunita Williams became the title of longest female astronaut in space.
- 2013 – During the Gezi Park protests, Berkin Elvan was shot with a gas canister. Berkin, who was in a coma for months, died on March 11, 2014.
- 2015 – Michael Clifford, guitarist in 5 Seconds of Summer, burned his hair and was slightly injured by visual flares during the concert in London.
Births
- 1313 – Giovanni Boccaccio, Italian writer and poet (d. 1375)
- 1613 – John Cleveland, English poet (d. 1658)
- 1723 – Adam Smith, Scottish philosopher and economist (d. 1790)
- 1793 Diego Portales, Chilean politician (d. 1837)
- 1813 – Otto Jahn, German archaeologist (d. 1869)
- 1829 – Geronimo, Apache chief (d. 1909)
- 1858 – John Peter Russell, Australian painter (d. 1930)
- 1858 – Gustav V, King of Sweden (d. 1950)
- 1888 – Alexander Friedman, Russian physical cosmologist and mathematician (d. 1925)
- 1890 – Stan Laurel, American comedian actor (of Laurel and Hardy) (d. 1965)
- 1920 – John Howard Griffin, American photographer (d. 1980)
- 1926 – Efraín Ríos Montt, Guatemalan soldier and politician (d. 2018)
- 1928 – Annie Cordy, Belgian actress and singer (d. 2020)
- 1928 – Ernst Stankovski, Austrian actor
- 1930 – Vilmos Zsigmond, Oscar-winning Hungarian-American cinematographer (d. 2016)
- 1938 – Joyce Carol Oates, American writer
- 1942 – Walter Schwimmer, Austrian politician and diplomat
- 1943 – Raymond Ramazani Baya, Democratic Congolese politician and former minister (d. 2019)
- 1946 – Esen Püsküllü, Turkish film actress
- 1949 – Fatma Belgen, Turkish cinema and TV series actress
- 1952 – Yıldırım Öcek, Turkish theater and television actor (d. 2018)
- 1952 – George Papandreou, Greek politician
- 1952 – Alexander Zaitsev, Olympic, World and European champion Soviet figure skater
- 1954 – Jeffrey Ashby, retired American sailor and astronaut
- 1955 – Laurie Metcalf, American actress and voice actor
- 1955 – Giuliana Salce, Italian hiker
- 1956 – II. Mesrob Mutafyan, Armenian cleric and 84th patriarch of the Armenians of Turkey (d. 2019)
- 1959 – Abraham Løkin Hansen, Faroese football player and manager
- 1961 – Can Dündar, Turkish investigative journalist and writer
- 1962 – Arnold Vosloo, South African actor
- 1963 – Sandman, American professional wrestler
- 1964 – Martin Feifel, German actor
- 1966 – Jan Železný, Czech javelin thrower
- 1967 – Jürgen Klopp, German former football player and football coach
- 1969 – Bénabar, French singer-songwriter, composer
- 1970 - Phil Mickelson, American golfer
- 1971 – Tupac Shakur, American rap artist, poet, and screenwriter (d. 1996)
- 1972 – John Cho, Korean-born American actor and musician
- 1972 – Andy Weir, American novelist and software developer
- 1973 – Balçiçek İlter, Turkish TV presenter and journalist
- 1973 – Federica Mogherini, Italian centre-left politician
- 1978 – Daniel Brühl is a German actor.
- 1978 – Lyndsey Marshal, English actress
- 1980 – Nehir Erdogan, Turkish actress
- 1980 – Sibel Kekilli, Turkish-German actress
- 1982 – Christoph Letkowski, German actor, musician and singer
- 1982 - Missy Peregrym is a Canadian actress and former model.
- 1982 – Rəşad Fərhad Sadıqov, Azerbaijani football player
- 1983 – Naz Elmas, Turkish cinema, television and theater actress
- 1986 – Fernando Muslera, Uruguayan football player
- 1987 – Aya Sameshima, Japanese national football player
- 1988 – Tarık Langat Akdağ, Kenyan-born Turkish long-distance runner
- 1993 – Alex Len is a Ukrainian professional basketball player.
- 1997 – Jean-Kévin Augustin, French football player
Deaths
- 1201 – Ibn al-Jawzi, Arab scholar of religion, history and medicine (b. 1116)
- 1265 - Nine Hatuns was a Kerait princess
- 1752 – Joseph Butler, English philosopher (b. 1692)
- 1909 – Süleyman Selim Efendi, son of Sultan Abdülmecid (b. 1861)
- 1929 – Oldfield Thomas, British zoologist (b. 1858)
- 1940 – Joseph Meister, first person to receive rabies vaccine by Louis Pasteur (b. 1876)
- 1944 – Marc Bloch, French historian (b. 1886)
- 1947 – Bronisław Huberman is a Polish violinist born in Cestohova (b. 1882)
- 1953 – Margaret Bondfield, British politician (b. 1873)
- 1958 – Imre Nagy, Hungarian politician (b. 1896)
- 1962 – Alexei Antonov, general of the Soviet Army (b. 1896)
- 1963 – Richard Kohn, Austrian football player and manager (b. 1888)
- 1966 – Şakir Zümre, Turkish lawyer and the first industrialist of the Republican era (b. 1885)
- 1977 – Wernher von Braun, German scientist (b. 1912)
- 1979 – Ayhan Işık, Turkish film actor (b. 1929)
- 1979 – Ayşe Sıdıka Avar, Turkish teacher (b. 1901)
- 1979 – Nicholas Ray, American film director (b. 1911)
- 1994 – Kristen Pfaff, American bassist (b. 1967)
- 2006 – Cüneyd Orhon, Turkish kemençe artist (b. 1926)
- 2012 – Nayef bin Abdulaziz al-Saud, Saudi prince (b. 1934)
- 2012 – Susan Tyrrell, American actress, painter, and author (b. 1945)
- 2013 – Josip Kuže, Croatian-born Yugoslav football player and manager (b. 1952)
- 2013 – Ottmar Walter, German football player (b. 1924)
- 2014 – Ayşe Şasa, Turkish screenwriter and writer (b. 1941)
- 2016 – Jo Cox, UK Labor MP (b. 1974)
- 2017 – John G. Avildsen, American film director (b.1935)
- 2017 – Christian Cabrol, French heart surgeon (b. 1925)
- 2017 – Stephen Furst, American actor and television film director (b. 1955)
- 2017 – Curt Hanson, American politician (b. 1943)
- 2017 – Helmut Kohl, Chancellor of Germany (b. 1930)
- 2018 – Martin Bregman, American filmmaker (b. 1926)
- 2019 – Frederick Andermann, Canadian physician and academic (b. 1930)
- 2019 – Erzsébet Gulyás-Köteles, Hungarian gymnast (b. 1924)
- 2020 – John Benfield, English actor (b. 1951)
- 2020 – Haribhau Jawale, Indian politician (b. 1953)
- 2020 – Paulinho Paiakan, Brazilian politician (b. 1953)
- 2020 – Patrick Poivey, French actor and dubbing artist (b. 1948)
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