Historical events on June 16
JUNE 16, 1632
The Plymouth Company granted a land patent to Thomas Purchase, who became the first permanent European settler of Pejepscot, Maine.
The Plymouth Company, officially known as the Virginia Company of Plymouth, was a company chartered by King James in 1606 along with
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JUNE 16, 1960
Psycho, a psychological horror film directed by Alfred Hitchcock (pictured) and based on a novel of the same name by Robert Bloch, premiered.
Psycho is a 1960 American horror film produced and directed by Alfred Hitchcock. The screenplay, written by Joseph Stefano, was based on
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JUNE 16, 632
The final king of the Sasanian Empire of Iran, Yazdegerd III, ascended the throne at the age of eight.
The Sasanian Empire, officially Eranshahr, was an Iranian empire that was founded and ruled by the House of Sasan from 224 to
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JUNE 16, 1407
Ming forces conquered Đại Ngu in modern-day northern Vietnam, capturing Hồ dynasty emperor Hồ Quý Ly and bringing the country under Chinese rule.
The Ming dynasty, officially the Great Ming, was an imperial dynasty of China that ruled from 1368 to 1644, following the collapse
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JUNE 16, 1911
The technology company IBM was founded as the Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company in Endicott, New York.
International Business Machines Corporation, nicknamed Big Blue, is an American multinational technology company headquartered in Armonk, New York and present in over
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JUNE 16, 2012
Liu Yang (pictured), a member of the Shenzhou 9 crew, became the first Chinese woman in space.
Liu Yang is a Chinese military transport pilot and taikonaut. On June 16, 2012, Yang became the first Chinese woman in space,
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JUNE 16, 1963
Aboard Vostok 6, Soviet cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova (pictured) became the first woman in space.
Vostok 6 was the first human spaceflight to carry a woman, cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova, into space.
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"Vostok 6 capsule on display, 2016" by Andrew Gray - CC BY-SA 3.0
JUNE 16, 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').
The 1819 Rann of Kutch earthquake occurred at about 18:45 to 18:50 local time on 16 June 1819. It had an estimated
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JUNE 16, 1936
A Junkers Ju 52 aircraft of Norwegian Air Lines crashed into a mountainside near Hyllestad, Norway, killing all seven people on board.
The Junkers Ju 52/3m is a transport aircraft that was designed and manufactured by German aviation company Junkers. First introduced during 1930
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JUNE 16, 1972
English musician David Bowie released his breakthrough album, The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars.
David Robert Jones, known as David Bowie, was an English singer, songwriter and actor. Regarded as one of the most influential musicians
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JUNE 16, 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.
The Battle of Fort Beauséjour was fought on the Isthmus of Chignecto and marked the end of Father Le Loutre's War and
the
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JUNE 16, 1904
Irish author James Joyce (pictured) began a relationship with Nora Barnacle, and subsequently used the date to set the actions for his 1922 novel Ulysses, commemorated as Bloomsday.
James Augustine Aloysius Joyce was an Irish novelist, poet, and literary critic. He contributed to the modernist avant-garde movement and is regarded
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