Browse events, births, deaths and holidays on June 16 throughout history.
From 2019 until 2020, protests were held in Hong Kong in response to the Hong Kong government's introduction of a bill to amend the Fugitive Offenders Ordinance in regard to extra…
Upwards of 2,000,000 people participate in the 2019–20 Hong Kong protests, the largest in Hong Kong's history
Shanghai Disneyland is a theme park located in Chuansha New Town, Pudong, Shanghai, China, that is part of the Shanghai Disney Resort. The park is operated by Disney Experiences a…
Shanghai Disneyland Park, the first Disney Park in mainland China, opens to the public
Before running for president of the United States in 2016, 2020 and 2024 Donald Trump pursued a career as a businessman, with a focus on renovating skyscrapers, hotels, casinos, a…
American businessman Donald Trump announces his campaign to run for President of the United States in the upcoming elect
In June 2013, a mid-day cloudburst centered on the North Indian state of Uttarakhand caused devastating floods and landslides, becoming the country's worst natural disaster since …
A multi-day cloudburst, centered on the North Indian state of Uttarakhand, causes devastating floods and landslides, bec
Shenzhou 9 was the fourth crewed spacecraft flight of China's Shenzhou program, launched at 18:37:24 CST, 16 June 2012. Shenzhou 9 was the second spacecraft and first crewed missi…
China successfully launches its Shenzhou 9 spacecraft, carrying three astronauts, including the first female Chinese ast
The United States Air Force (USAF) is the air service branch of the United States Armed Forces. It is a part of the United States Department of Defense (DoD) and is one of the six…
The United States Air Force's robotic Boeing X-37B spaceplane returns to Earth after a classified 469-day orbital missio
Bhutan, officially the Kingdom of Bhutan, is a landlocked country in South Asia, located in the Eastern Himalayas, bordering China to the north and northwest and India to the sout…
Bhutan becomes the first country to institute a total ban on tobacco
Pio of Pietrelcina, widely known as Padre Pio was an Italian friar of the Order of Friars Minor Capuchin, priest, stigmatist and mystic. He is venerated as a saint in the Catholic…
Padre Pio is canonized by the Roman Catholic Church
United Nations Security Council Resolution 425, adopted on 19 March 1978, five days after the Israeli invasion of Lebanon in the context of Palestinian insurgency in South Lebanon…
The Secretary-General of the UN reports that Israel has complied with United Nations Security Council Resolution 425, 22
The Daïat Labguer (M'sila) massacre took place on June 16, 1997, near M'sila, 300 km southeast of Algiers. The massacre came less than two weeks after parliamentary elections in t…
Fifty people are killed in the Daïat Labguer (M'sila) massacre in Algeria
Astronomy Picture of the Day (APOD) is a website provided by NASA and Michigan Technological University (MTU). Each day it features a different image of the universe accompanied b…
The Astronomy Picture of the Day website is launched
The Revolutions of 1989, also known as the Fall of Communism, were a wave of liberal democratic movements that resulted in the collapse of most Marxist–Leninist governments in the…
Revolutions of 1989: Imre Nagy, the former Hungarian prime minister, is reburied in Budapest following the collapse of C
Ronald Wilson Reagan was an American politician and actor who served as the 40th president of the United States from 1981 to 1989. A member of the Republican Party, he became an i…
US President Ronald Reagan awards the Congressional Gold Medal to Ken Taylor, Canada's former ambassador to Iran, for he
Oracle Corporation is an American multinational technology company headquartered in Austin, Texas. Co-founded in Santa Clara, California, in 1977 by Bob Miner, Ed Oates, and curre…
Oracle Corporation is incorporated in Redwood Shores, California, as Software Development Laboratories (SDL), by Larry E
The Soweto uprising, also known as the Soweto riots or the Soweto rebellion, was a series of demonstrations and protests led by black school children in South Africa during aparth…
Soweto uprising: A non-violent march by 15,000 students in Soweto, South Africa, turns into days of rioting when police
The Churchill Falls Generating Station is a hydroelectric underground power station in Labrador, Canada. At 5,428 MW, it is the sixteenth largest in the world, and the second-larg…
The largest single-site hydroelectric power project in Canada is inaugurated at Churchill Falls Generating Station
Vostok 6 was the first human spaceflight to carry a woman, cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova, into space.
Soviet Space Program: Vostok 6 mission: Cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova becomes the first woman in space
The Buddhist crisis was a period of political and religious tension in South Vietnam between May and November 1963, characterized by a series of repressive acts by the South Vietn…
In an attempt to resolve the Buddhist crisis in South Vietnam, a Joint Communique was signed between President Ngo Dinh
The Mariinsky Ballet is the resident classical ballet company of the Mariinsky Theatre in Saint Petersburg, Russia.
While on tour with the Kirov Ballet in Paris, Rudolf Nureyev defects from the Soviet Union
Imre Nagy was a Hungarian communist politician who served as Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Hungarian People's Republic from 1953 to 1955. In 1956 Nagy became leader …
Imre Nagy, Pál Maléter and other leaders of the 1956 Hungarian Uprising are executed