Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/June 16

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This is a list of selected June 16 anniversaries that appear in the "On this day" section of the Main Page. To suggest a new item, in most cases, you can be bold and edit this page. Please read the selected anniversaries guidelines before making your edit. However, if your addition might be controversial or on a day that is or will soon be on the Main Page, please post your suggestion on the talk page instead.

Please note that the events listed on the Main Page are chosen based more on relative article quality and to maintain a mix of topics, not based solely on how important or significant their subjects are. Only four to five events are posted at a time and thus not everything that is "most important and significant" can be listed. In addition, an event is generally not posted this year if it is also the subject of the scheduled featured article or picture of the day.

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Ford logo in 1903
James Joyce
Michel Ney
Pope Pius IX
Valentina Tereshkova
Valentina Tereshkova
Rudolf Nureyev

Ineligible

Blurb	Reason
Bloomsday	refimprove section
; Youth Day in South Africa	multiple issues
1487 – Lancastrian forces defeated Yorkist supporters at the Battle of Stoke Field in East Stoke, Nottinghamshire, England, the final battle of the Wars of the Roses.	refimprove section
1745 – King George's War: British colonial forces led by William Pepperrell captured the French stronghold at Fortress Louisbourg on Cape Breton Island after a six-week siege.	Fortress: refimprove section; Siege: needs more footnotes
1815 – Napoleonic Wars: French forces under Napoleon defeated Blücher's larger Prussian army in the Battle of Ligny, while Michel Ney earned a strategic victory against the Anglo-Dutch army in the Battle of Quatre Bras.	Ligny: refimprove section
1846 – Giovanni Maria Mastai-Ferretti was elected as Pius IX; he became the longest-reigning elected pope in the history of the Catholic Church.	lead too long
1858 – United States Senate candidate Abraham Lincoln delivered his "House Divided Speech" in Springfield, Illinois, referring to the division of the country between slave states and free states as "A house divided against itself cannot stand".	mostly full of quotations
1903 – Ford Motor Company was founded in Detroit, Michigan, by Henry Ford, Alexander Y. Malcomson, and a group of investors to assemble automobiles.	lots of CN tags (9)
1924 – The Whampoa Military Academy officially opened under the Kuomintang in the Republic of China.	refimprove
1958 – Imre Nagy and other leaders of the failed Hungarian Revolution of 1956 were executed following secret trials.	refimprove section
1960 – Psycho, a psychological horror film directed by Alfred Hitchcock (pictured) and based on a novel of the same name by Robert Bloch, premiered.	hook unclearly cited
1967 – The Monterey Pop Festival rock festival, the venue for the first major American performances by the Jimi Hendrix Experience, The Who, and Ravi Shankar, began in Monterey, California.	refimprove section
1976 – Police in Soweto opened fire on schoolchildren protesting against the imposition of Afrikaans as a medium of instruction in township schools, triggering a series of nationwide demonstrations, strikes, riots and violence.	expansion, unreferenced section
2000 – Israel complied with the UN Security Council Resolution 425 after 22 years of its issuance, withdrawing from all of Lebanon except the disputed Shebaa farms.	saved for March 19

Eligible

1407 – During the Ming–Hồ War, the Chinese Ming armies captured Hồ Quý Ly and his sons, thus ending the Vietnamese Hồ dynasty.
1819 – A strong earthquake in the Kutch district of Gujarat, India, caused a local zone of uplift that dammed the Nara River, which was later named the Allah Bund ('Dam of God').
1883 – More than 180 out of 1,100 children died in the Victoria Hall disaster in Sunderland, England, when they ran down the stairs to collect gifts after a variety show.
1961 – Pioneering Russian ballet dancer Rudolf Nureyev defected from the Soviet Union at Paris–Le Bourget Airport with the help of French police and a Parisian socialite friend.
1963 – Aboard Vostok 6, Soviet cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova became the first woman in space.
1997 – The English rock band Radiohead released their landmark third album, OK Computer.
2012 – Liu Yang became the first Chinese woman in space, as a member of the Shenzhou 9 crew.
2013 – A multi-day cloudburst caused severe flooding in the North Indian state of Uttarakhand, resulting in over 5,700 deaths.
2016 – Jo Cox, a British Member of Parliament, was murdered in her constituency.
Born/died: Johannes Tauler (d. 1361) | John Cheke (b. 1514) | Jean de Thévenot (b. 1633) | Adam Smith (b. 1723) | Mary Katherine Goddard (b. 1738) | Helen Traubel (b. 1899) | Barbara McClintock (d. 1902) | Tony Gwynn (d. 2014) | Helmut Kohl (d. 2017)

Notes

Battle of Waterloo appears on June 18, so Battle of Ligny/Battle of Quatre Bras should not appear in the same year
Jimi Hendrix appears on June 18, so Monterey Pop Festival should not appear in the same year

June 16

James Joyce

632 – The final king of the Sasanian Empire of Iran, Yazdegerd III, ascended the throne at the age of eight.
1755 – After a two-week siege, the French commander of Fort Beauséjour in present-day New Brunswick, Canada, surrendered to British forces, marking the end of Father Le Loutre's War.
1904 – Irish author James Joyce (pictured) began his relationship with Nora Barnacle, and subsequently used the date to set the actions for his 1922 novel Ulysses.
1911 – The technology company IBM was founded as the Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company in Endicott, New York.
2010 – The Tobacco Control Act of Bhutan came into force, banning the sale and production of tobacco in the country.

Yang Jisheng (b. 1516)
Bazil Assan (d. 1918)
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