TODAY’S HISTORY LESSON: JUNE 16
0455 Rome is sacked by the Vandal army.
1487 The Battle of Stoke ended the Wars of the Roses.
1567 Mary Queen of Scots thrown into Lochleven Castle prison
1858 Abraham Lincoln, in accepting the Republican nomination for the U.S. Senate in Illinois, declares that, “A house divided against itself cannot stand.”
1904 Bloomsday (date of events in James Joyce’s Ulysses)
1910 The first Father’s Day is celebrated in Spokane, Washington.
1932 The ban on Nazi storm troopers is lifted by the von Papen government in Germany.
1935 President Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal legislation is passed by the House of Representatives.
1955 The U.S. House of Representatives votes to extend Selective Service until 1959.
1960 Alfred Hitchcock’s film Psycho is premiered
1967 The Monterey International Pop Music Festival opens in Monterey, California, which will run for three days starts on June 16th and end on June 18th. Over 200,000 people attended, and it is often regarded as the precursor to Woodstock.
1971 An El Greco sketch, “The Immaculate Conception,” stolen in Spain 35 years earlier, is recovered in New York City by the FBI
1976 South African police kill hundreds of protesting schoolchildren
1977 Leonid Brezhnev is named president of the Soviet Union.
1987 Subway gunman Bernhard Goetz acquitted on all but gun possession charges after shooting 4 black youths who tried to rob him
1999 The U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said that a 1992 federal music piracy law does not prohibit a palm-sized device that can download high-quality digital music files from the Internet and play them at home.
2000 Israel complies with UN Security Council Resolution 425 after 22 years, which calls on Israel to completely withdraw from Lebanon. Israel withdraws from all of Lebanon, except the disputed Sheba Farms
2004 The 9/11 Commission determined that Saddam Hussein had no strong links to al-Qaeda, contradicting White House beliefs.
2010 The world’s first country-wide total tobacco ban goes into effect. Bhutan banned the cultivation, harvesting, production, and sale of tobacco and tobacco products.
REFERENCE: history.net, onthisday.com, thepeopleshistory.com, timeanddate.com, scopesys.com, on-this-day.com
