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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, featured list or picture of the day.

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Bloomsday refimprove section
; Youth Day in South Africa multiple issues
1487Lancastrian 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
1745King 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 article has refimprove section, Siege article needs footnotes
1815Napoleonic Wars: <French forces under Napoleon defeated Blücher's larger Prussian army in the Battle of Ligny, while French Marshal Michel Ney earned a strategic victory against the Anglo-Dutch army in the Battle of Quatre Bras. both: 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. refimprove
1858United 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
1904 – Irish author James Joyce began his relationship with Nora Barnacle, and subsequently used the date to set the actions for his 1922 novel Ulysses. external links
1924 – The Whampoa Military Academy officially opened under the Kuomintang in the Republic of China. refimprove
1958Imre Nagy and other leaders of the failed Hungarian Revolution of 1956 were executed following secret trials. refimprove
1963 – Aboard Vostok 6, Soviet cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova (pictured) became the first woman in space. refimprove section
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. 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

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June 16

Rudolf Nureyev
Rudolf Nureyev

Jean de Thévenot (b. 1633) · Adam Smith (b. 1723) · Tony Gwynn (d. 2014)

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