Subj : This Day In History To : All From : Robert Wolfe Date : Wed Jun 16 2021 12:30 am Interesting things that have happened, and people born and died on this date Registered to Omicron Theta By Scott Labrecque ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Births: 06/16/1633 Nathaniel Schnittelbach, composer 06/16/1637 Giovanni Paulo Colonna, composer 06/16/1752 Meingosus Gaelle, composer 06/16/1834 Wesley Merritt, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1910 06/16/1837 Eli Long, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1903 06/16/1843 David Popper, composer 06/16/1843 Jan Malat, composer 06/16/1853 Johan Gustaf Emil Sjogren, composer 06/16/1858 Gustav V, king of Sweden 06/16/1861 Scato Gocko de Vries, paleography/librarian 06/16/1863 Paul Antonin Vidal, composer 06/16/1874 Arthur Meighen, (C) 9th PM of Canada (1920-21, 1926) 06/16/1879 Fritz Schulz, German historic rights (Classical Novel Law) 06/16/1879 Theo[dorus J] Th˜ssen, writer (Kees the boy) 06/16/1895 Stan Laurel, [Arthur S Jefferson], comedian (Laurel & Hardy) 06/16/1896 Jean Peugeot, French auto manufacturer (Peugot) 06/16/1896 William Fitzgerald Jenkins, author (Time Tunnel, Land of Giants) 06/16/1899 Helen Traubel, US, singer (Sieglinde in Walkre, Nightclubs) 06/16/1899 Nelson Doubleday, US, publisher (Doubleday) 06/16/1900 Jan van Tilburg, governor Suriname (PVDA, 1955-62) 06/16/1901 Conrad Beck, composer 06/16/1902 Barbara McClintock, US, cytogeneticist (Jumping Genes, Nobel 1983) 06/16/1902 Kornelis Posthumus, chemist 06/16/1903 Huldreich Georg Fruh, composer 06/16/1904 Gerard Holt, architect 06/16/1907 Jack Albertson, Malden Mass, actor (Thin Man, Chico & the Man) 06/16/1907 John Hadfield, author/publisher 06/16/1909 Willi Boskovsky, Austria, conductor (new years concert) 06/16/1910 E G Marshall, Owatonna Minn, actor (Lawrence-Defenders, Caine Mutiny 06/16/1910 Ilona Massey, Budapest Hungary, actress/singer (Ilona Massey Show) 06/16/1910 Lord Richardson, president (General Medical Council) 06/16/1911 Georg Meistermann, German (glass)painter (Raumpl„nen) 06/16/1912 Enoch Powell, England, MP (C)/racist/Greek professor 06/16/1912 John Peel, MP 06/16/1914 Stewart Griffith, secretary (MCC) 06/16/1915 Mariano Rumor, premier Italy 06/16/1916 Francis Lopez, composer 06/16/1917 Katharine Graham, newspaper publisher (Wash Post) 06/16/1919 Lord Aberdare, committee chairman (House of Lords) 06/16/1920 John Howard Griffin, US, photographer/author (Black Like Me) 06/16/1921 Lord Perry of Walton, SDP/vice chancellor (Open University England) 06/16/1923 Ake Hermanson, composer 06/16/1923 Henryk Czyz, composer 06/16/1925 Faith Domergue, New Orleans, actress (House of 7 Corpses) 06/16/1927 Robert Matthews, master (Clare College Cambridge England) 06/16/1927 Tom Graveny, cricketer 06/16/1928 Harold Hanham, vice chancellor (Lancaster University) 06/16/1928 Sergiu Comissiona, Buch Romania, conductor (Haifa Symph 1959-64) 06/16/1929 James Kirtland Randall, composer 06/16/1930 David Konstant, bishop of Leeds 06/16/1931 Ivo Petric, composer 06/16/1931 Robert F [Bob] Smith, (Rep-R-OR, 1983- ) 06/16/1932 Ralph Robins, CEO (Rolls-Royce) 06/16/1934 Eileen Atkins, actress (Equus, Devil Within Her) 06/16/1934 Lord Patrick Beresforord, blood-stock agent 06/16/1934 Lucia Dlugoszewski, composer 06/16/1935 Jim Dine, Cincinnati Oh, pop artist (St John the Divine) 06/16/1936 August Willemsen, poet/interpreter 06/16/1936 Fred Oster, TV host 06/16/1937 August Busch III, CEO (Anheuser-Busch) 06/16/1937 Erich Segal, author (Love Story, Oliver's Story) 06/16/1938 James Bolam, actor (Crucible of Terror) 06/16/1938 Joyce Carol Oates, US, novelist (Garden of Earthly Delights) (1946) 06/16/1938 Mickie Finn, Hugo Okla, TV hostess/banjo player (Mickie Finn's) 06/16/1940 Billy 'Crash' Craddock, Greensboro NC, singer 06/16/1940 Hans Dorrest˜n, cabaret performer 06/16/1941 Lamont Dozier, Detroit, songwriter (Dozier-Holland-Dozier) 06/16/1942 Eddie Levert, US singer (O'Jays-For the Love of Money) 06/16/1942 Giacomo Agostini, Lovere, Italy, world motorcycle race champion 06/16/1943 Joan Van Ark, NYC, actress (Valene-Dallas/Knots Landing) 06/16/1944 Takamiyama [Jesse Kuhaulua], Hawaii, 1st non-Japanese sumo champion 06/16/1946 Lord Astor, of Hever 06/16/1946 Neil MacGregor, director (British National Gallery) 06/16/1948 Brian Eno, rocker (Here Comes the Warm Jets) 06/16/1949 Kale Browne, San Rafael Calif, actor (Michael Hudson-Another World) 06/16/1950 James Smith, US, singer (Stylistics-Can't Give you Anything) 06/16/1950 Jesse Dizon, Oceanside Calif, actor (Ramon-Operation Petticoat) 06/16/1951 Roberto Duran, boxer (fists of stone, no m…s) 06/16/1951 Sonia Braga, Maringa Brazil, actress (Dona Flor & Her 2 Husbands) 06/16/1952 Aleksandr Zaitsev, USSR, pairs figure skating (Olympic-gold-1976, 80 06/16/1952 Gino Vanelli, Canada, singer (Living Inside Myself) 06/16/1953 Ian Mosley, Paddington London, drums, (Marillion-Clutching at Straws 06/16/1955 Ian Buchanan, actor (General Hospital, Gary Shandling Show) 06/16/1955 Laurie Metcalf, actress (Roseanne) 06/16/1957 Adri van Tiggelen, soccer star (Sparta/PSV) 06/16/1968 Patrick Stuart, Hollywood Cal, actor (Will Cortlandt-All My Children Deaths: 06/16/ 956 Hugo, the Great, duke of France, dies 06/16/1216 Innocent III, pope, dies at 54 06/16/1246 Lutgardis/Ludgardis, Flemish mystic/saint, dies at about 64 06/16/1361 John Tauler, German mystic (Gottesfreunde) dies at about 61 06/16/1575 Hadrianus Junius, [Adriaen the Jonghe], medical/historian, dies at 6 06/16/1620 Carlo Saraceni, [Carlo Veniziano], Italian painter (Judith), dies 06/16/1644 Johannes a Sancto Thoma, [Poinset], Portuguese theologist, dies at 5 06/16/1651 Marsilio Casentini, composer, dies at 74 06/16/1671 Stenka Razin, Cossack rebel leader, tortured, executed in Moscow 06/16/1686 -BC- Hammurabi the Great, dies in Babylon 06/16/1722 John Churchill up Marlborough, English general strategist, dies at 7 06/16/1752 Giulio Alberoni, Spanish/Italian minister/cardinal, dies at 88 06/16/1793 Louis A count d'Affry, general/French ambassador in Netherland, dies 06/16/1804 Johann Adam Hiller, composer, dies at 75 06/16/1808 Georg Wenzel Ritter, composer, dies at 60 06/16/1812 Franz Pforr, German painter/cartoonist (Lukasbund), dies at 23 06/16/1815 Frederik Willem, duke of Brunswick (1813-15), dies in battle 06/16/1831 Joseph Ignaz Schnabel, composer, dies at 64 06/16/1837 Valentino Fioravanti, composer, dies at 72 06/16/1892 Victor Tesch, Belgian lawyer/min of Justice, dies at 80 06/16/1901 Hermann Grimm, German writer/poet/historian, dies 06/16/1910 Wendelin Weissheimer, composer, dies at 72 06/16/1932 Frederik W Van Oaths, psychiatrist/writer (Blades of Grass), dies 06/16/1940 Dubose Heyward, US writer (Porgy, Star Spangled Virgin), dies 06/16/1940 Vitezslava Kapralova, composer, dies at 25 06/16/1941 Lodo of Hamel, 1st Dutch secret affiliate, dies 06/16/1946 Miloje Milojevic, composer, dies at 61 06/16/1958 Jose Pablo Moncayo Garcia, composer, dies at 45 06/16/1959 George Reeves, actor (Superman, Gone With the Wind), shoots himself 06/16/1962 Hans Rudolf Krik, Danish writer/critic (Vredens Sín), dies at 64 06/16/1969 Harold RLG 1st Earl Alexander of Tunis, Brit field marshal, dies at 06/16/1969 John BMR 'John' Hanlo, poet (Oote oote boe), dies at 57 06/16/1969 John Scott, rocker with the Pretenders, dies at 25 06/16/1969 Karl Hubert Rudolf Schiske, composer, dies at 53 06/16/1970 Heino Eller, composer, dies at 83 06/16/1975 Don Robey, US gospel/impresario/producer, dies at 71 06/16/1976 Francis E Meloy Jr, US ambassador to Lebanon, kidnapped & killed 06/16/1977 Wernher von Braun, rocket scientist (V1/V2), dies at 65 of smoking 06/16/1979 Ben Weber, composer, dies at 62 06/16/1981 Humphrey Keervelt, director (Suriname Planning Bureau), murdered 06/16/1981 John S Knight, US newspaper magnate, dies at 86 06/16/1982 John Honeyman-Scott, guitarist (Pretenders), overdoses on drugs 06/16/1987 Henk H Badings, mine engineer/composer (Orestes, Ka‹n), dies at 80 06/16/1990 Eva Turner, British soprano, dies 06/16/1990 Megan Leigh, XXX actress (Deep Throat III), commits suicide 06/16/1991 Vicky Brown, US singer (Power of Love), dies 06/16/1992 Joris Diels, Flemish/Dutch director/actor (It's a Cruel World), dies 06/16/1993 John B Connally, gov of Texas/shot with JFK in 1963, dies at 76 Significant Events: 06/16/ 632 Origin of Persian [Yezdegird] Era 06/16/1338 German monarch declares pope & king's decree redundant 06/16/1567 Mary Queen of Scots thrown into Lochleven Castle prison 06/16/1671 Cossack rebel leader Stenka Razin tortured, executed in Moscow 06/16/1673 Peace of Vossem: Fren King Louis XIV & Frederik Willem of Brandenbur 06/16/1755 British capture Fort Beaus‚jour, expel Acadians 06/16/1779 Vice-adm Hardy sails out of Isle of Wright against Spanish Armada 06/16/1784 Holland forbids orange clothes 06/16/1815 Battle at Ligny: French army under Napoleon beats Prussia 06/16/1815 Battle at Quatre-Bras: allies strike French 06/16/1822 Denamrk Vessy leads slave rebellion in South Carolina 06/16/1823 King Willem I opens shipyard at Rotterdam-Antwerp 06/16/1832 Battle of Kellogg's Grove, Ill 06/16/1842 Natchex Mississippi, hit by tornado; about 500 die 06/16/1858 Abraham Lincoln says 'A house divided against itself cannot stand' 06/16/1861 Battle of Vienna, VA & Secessionville, SC (James Island) 06/16/1864 Battle of Lynchburg VA 06/16/1864 Siege of Petersburg & Richmond begins 06/16/1864 Skirmish at Golgotha Georgia 06/16/1871 Ancient Arabic Order of Nobles of Mystic Shrine founded, NYC 06/16/1873 Pres Grant decrees Wallowa Valley for Nez-Perc‚ indians 06/16/1879 Gilbert & Sullivan's 'HMS Pinafore' debuts at Bowery Theatre NYC 06/16/1882 17' hailstones weighing 1.75 lbs fall in Dubuque Iowa 06/16/1883 1st baseball 'Ladies' Day' (NY Gothams beat Cleve Spiders 5-2) 06/16/1884 1st roller coaster used (Coney Island NY) 06/16/1896 Temperture hits 127øF at Fort Mojave, Calif 06/16/1898 China's emperor De Sang (Guang Xu) receives Kang Youwei 06/16/1903 1st Highlander (Yankee) shut-out victory 1-0 over White Sox 06/16/1903 Ford Motors incorporates 06/16/1904 Bloomsday (date of events in James Joyce's Ulysses) 06/16/1909 1st US airplane sold commercially, by Glenn Curtiss for $5,000 06/16/1913 South-African parliament forbids blacks owning land 06/16/1916 Boston Brave's Tom Hughes 2nd no-hitter beats Pitts, 2-0 06/16/1917 1st Congress of Soviets convene in Russia 06/16/1922 Henry Berliner demonstrates his helicopter to US Bureau of Aeronauti 06/16/1923 Sun Yat Sen founds military academy 06/16/1927 Tommy Armour wins US Open golf tournament 06/16/1931 Austrian govt of Ender falls 06/16/1932 Germany forbids SA/SS-gang fights 06/16/1932 Pres Hoover & VP Charles Curtis renominated by Rep Convention 06/16/1933 National Industrial Recovery Act becomes law (later struck down) 06/16/1933 US Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) created 06/16/1936 Dutch queen Wilhelmina opens the Waal bridge 06/16/1936 Pope Pius XI receives Anton Mussert (Dutch Nazi collaborator) 06/16/1937 Marx Brothers' 'A Day At The Races' opens in LA 06/16/1938 St Louis Browns walk Boston Red Sox Jimmy Foxx 6 times in a row 06/16/1940 Commuinist govt installed in Lithuania 06/16/1940 General De Gaulle arrives in Bordeaux 06/16/1941 1st US federally owned airport opened Wash DC 06/16/1943 Race riot in Beaumont Texas (2 die) 06/16/1944 Iceland adopts constitution 06/16/1944 US bombs Kyushu, Japan 06/16/1946 Lloyd Mangrum wins golf's US open after 2 playoffs 06/16/1947 1st network news-Dumont's 'News from Washington' 06/16/1947 Pravda denounces Marshall Plan 06/16/1949 Gas turbine-electric locomotive demonstrated, Erie Pa 06/16/1951 Ben Hogan wins golf's US open for 2nd year in a row 06/16/1952 Soviet Fighters shoot Swedish Catalina reconnaissance flight down 06/16/1954 Dutch military conscription shortened from 20 to 18 months 06/16/1954 Ngo Dinh Diem elected president of Vietnam 06/16/1955 Pope Pius XII ex-communicates Argentine Pres Juan Peron 06/16/1956 Cary Middlecoff wins US Open golf tournament 06/16/1957 French offensive in Algeria 06/16/1957 White Sox reliever Dixie Howell hits 2 HRs to beat Wash Senators 8-6 06/16/1958 Govt troops land on North-Celebes Indonesia 06/16/1960 Pres Eisenhower cancels trip to Japan 06/16/1961 Dave Garroway is fired as Today Show host 06/16/1961 Discoverer 25 launched 06/16/1961 Soviet ballet dancer Rudolf Nureyev defects to West in Paris 06/16/1962 2 US army officers killed in Saigon 06/16/1962 Caspar Weinberger (Sec of Def 1981-87), indicted on Iran-contra char 06/16/1963 Levi Eshkol replaces David Ben-Gurion as Israeli PM 06/16/1963 Valentina Tereshkova (USSR) is 1st woman in space, aboard Vostok 6 06/16/1964 Amnesty granted to 3,000 political prisoners 06/16/1964 Quake strikes Niigata Japan 06/16/1967 50,000 attend Monterey International Pop Festival 06/16/1968 Lee Trevino is 1st to play all 4 rounds of golf's US open under par 06/16/1969 Supreme Court rules suspension of Adam Clayton Powell Jr from House 06/16/1970 Kenneth A Gibson elected 1st black mayor of Newark, NJ 06/16/1970 Race riots in Miami Florida 06/16/1971 Racial disturbance in Jacksonville Florida 06/16/1973 Leonid I Brezhnev visit US 06/16/1975 Bucks trade Kareem Abdul-Jabber & Walt Wesley to LA for 4 players 06/16/1975 Hale Irwin wins US Open golf tournament 06/16/1975 Italy's Communist party PCI, wins 06/16/1975 Randy Farland finds a 14-leaf clover near Sioux Falls, SD 06/16/1976 Student uprisings begin in Soweto, South Africa (Soweto Day) 06/16/1977 'Beatlemania' opens on Broadway 06/16/1977 Fianna Fail-party wins Irish elections 06/16/1977 Leonid Brezhnev named president of USSR 06/16/1977 Ron Guidry's 1st complete game, 7-0 over KC Royals 06/16/1978 Cin Red Tom Seaver no-hits St Louis Cards, 4-0 06/16/1978 Ringo releases 'Bad Boy' album; Wings releases 'I've Had Enough' 06/16/1979 Carl Yastrzemski hits his 1,000th extra base hit 06/16/1979 H-E Schuster discovers asteroid #2275 06/16/1979 Muslim Brotherhood kills 62 shiks in Aleppo Syria 06/16/1982 Britain requests Argentina arrange for return of prisoners 06/16/1983 Charlos Vieira completes 191 hr 'nonstop' cycling in Leiria Portugal 06/16/1983 European Space Agency launches European Comm Satellite 1, Oscar 10 06/16/1983 Pope John Paul II visits Poland 06/16/1983 Ringo releases 'Old Wave' album in West Germany 06/16/1983 USSR party leader Yuri Andropov elected president 06/16/1984 Edwin Moses wins his 100th consecutive 400-meter hurdles race 06/16/1984 Matt de Waal finishes 14,290-mi round trip from Salt Lake City (106d 06/16/1985 Andy North wins US Open golf tournament 06/16/1985 T C Chen, ahead by 4 strokes in final round of US Open 06/16/1986 1 day general strike in South Africa 06/16/1987 Joe Robbie Stadium in Miami, opens 06/16/1988 Boston Red Sox Barrett steals home 06/16/1989 'Ghostbusters II' premieres 06/16/1989 Funeral for Imre Nagg, leader of Hungarian uprising in 1956 06/16/1990 Nelson & Winnie Mandela visit Leidseplein, Amsterdam 06/16/1991 Boris Yeltsin elected president of Russian SSR 06/16/1991 Minnesota Twins win a team record 15 games in a row 06/16/1991 NYC Mayor Dinkins declares 'Joseph Doherty Week' (through 23rd) 06/16/1991 Otis Nixon steals NL record 6 bases in 1 day 06/16/1991 With 3 runs in 9th, Balt ends Twins 15 game win streak 6-5 06/16/1992 Colo Rockies 1st minor league team's (Bend Oregon in Class A) game 06/16/1992 Great Brit postage stamp 350 year battle near Edgehill 06/16/1992 Jeff King is 5th to be thrown out twice trying to steal in an inning 06/16/1992 Red Sox Mark Reardon sets record of 342 saves (vs Yanks 1-0) --- Posted by CatPost 4.30 (#07-2791) for Wildcat! 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