Wednesday, June 16, 2004
Useless info for this Day!!Well, I like history, I should do its all behind!!
June 16 is the 167th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar< The Gregorian calendar is the calendar currently used in the Western world. A modification of the Julian calendar, it was first proposed by Neapolitan doctor Aloysius Lilius, and adopted by Pope Gregory XIII on February 24, 1582 (the document was dated 1581 on account of the pope starting the year in March).
The Gregorian calendar was invented because the mean year in the Julian Calendar was a little too long, causing the Vernal equinox to slowly drift earlier in the calendar year.
..... Click the link for more information. (168th in leap A leap year (or intercalary year) is a year containing an extra day or month in order to keep the calendar year in sync with an astronomical or seasonal year. Seasons and astronomical events do not repeat at an exact number of days, so a calendar which had the same number of days in each year would over time drift with respect to the event it was supposed to track. By occasionally inserting (or intercalating) an additional day or month into the year, the drift can be corrected.
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. - Pope Pius IX is elected pope.
1858 - Abraham Lincoln's House Divided speech in Springfield, Illinois
1858 - Battle of Morar, during the Indian Mutiny.
1871 - University Tests Act allow students to enter the Universities of Oxford, Cambridge and Durham without religious tests, except for courses in theology.
1884 - The first roller coaster in the United States begins operation at Coney Island, New York
1891 - John Abbott becomes Canada's third prime minister
1903 - Ford motor company incorporates
1915 - foundation of the British Women's Institute
1922 - General election in Irish Free State: large majority to pro-Treaty Sinn Fein
1924 - Whampoa Military Academy is founded
1940 - World War II: Marshal Henri Philippe Pétain becomes Premier of Vichy France
1940 - A Communist government is installed in Lithuania
1955 - Pope Pius XII excommunicates Juan Perón
1956 - Ted Hughes marries Sylvia Plath
1961 - Rudolf Nureyev defects at Le Bourget airport in Paris
1963 - Valentina Tereshkova becomes the first woman in space
1972 - Burglars are caught breaking into the United States Democratic Party headquarters in the Watergate building
1972 - Red Army Faction member Ulrike Meinhof is captured by police in Langenhagen.
1972 - Opening of the New York Jazz Museum
1972 - Largest single-site hydro-electric power project starts at Churchill Falls Newfoundland
1976 - Student riots in Soweto, South Africa
1977 - Leonid Brezhnev becomes president of the USSR
1981 - Ken Taylor honoured for helping six Americans escape from Iran during hostage crisis
1983 - Yuri Andropov becomes president of the USSR
1994 - A Chinese operated Northwest Airlines Tupolev TU-154 crashes 10 minutes after takeoff killing 160
1996 - First round of voting in the Russian presidential election
1999 - Thabo Mbeki elected President of South Africa
2002 - Politically Incorrect is cancelled (from sponsors dropping the show) after host Bill Maher makes controversial comments on air regarding the integrity of President George W. Bush.
Births
1514 - John Cheke, English classical scholar (d. 1557)
1583 - Axel Oxenstierna, Swedish statesman (d. 1654)
1613 - John Cleveland, English poet (d. 1658)
1644 - Henrietta Anne Stuart, Princess of Scotland, England and Ireland and later Duchess of Orleans (d. 1670)
1738 - Mary Katharine Goddard, early American printer and publisher (d. 1816)
1792 - John Linnell, English artist (d. 1882)
1792 - Sir Thomas Mitchell, Australian explorer (d. 1855)
1801 - Julius Plücker, German mathematician and physicist (d. 1868)
1806 - Edward Davy, English physician, chemist and inventor (d. 1885)
1813 - Otto Jahn, German archaeologist (d. 1869)
1820 - Athanase Coquerel, French protestant preacher (d. 1875)
1826 - Baron von Ettingshausen, Austrian geologist and botanist (d. 1897)
1829 - Geronimo, Apache warrior and leader (d. 1909)
1836 - Wesley Merritt, soldier (d. 1910)
1837 - Ernst Laas, German philosopher (d. 1885)
1838 - Cushman Davis, politician (d. 1900)
1840 - Ernst Otto Schlick, engineer (d. 1913)
1858 - King Gustav V of Sweden (d. 1950)
1874 - Arthur Meighen, ninth Prime Minister of Canada (d. 1960)
1880 - Otto Eisenschiml, Austrian -American chemist and historian (d. 1963)
1890 - Stan Laurel, actor, comedian (d. 1965)
1897 - Georg Wittig, German chemist, winner of the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1979 (d. 1987)
1902 - Barbara McClintock, geneticist (d. 1992)
1902 - George Gaylord Simpson, paleontologist (d. 1984)
1907 - Jack Albertson, actor (d. 1981)
1909 - Archie Fairley Carr, biologist and expert on turtles (d. 1987)
1910 - Juan Velasco, President of Peru from 1968 to 1975 (d. 1977)
1912 - Enoch Powell, British politician (d. 1998)
1914 - Babe Didrikson Zaharias, athlete (d. 1956)
1916 - Hank Luisetti, baseball player (d. 2002)
1917 - Katharine Graham, Washington Post publisher (d. 2001)
1917 - Irving Penn, photographer
1920 - José López Portillo, President of Mexico from 1976 to 1982 (d. 2004)
1927 - Tom Graveney, English cricketer
1927 - Herbert Lichtenfeld, author and playwright (d. 2001)
1930 - Vilmos Zsigmond, cinematographer
1934 - Dame Eileen Atkins, English actress
1935 - Jim Dine, artist
1937 - Erich Segal, author
1938 - James Bolam, English actor
1938 - Joyce Carol Oates, novelist
1940 - Neil Goldschmidt, governor of Oregon
1941 - Lamont Dozier, record company executive
1942 - Giacomo Agostini, Italian motorcyclist
1951 - Roberto Durán, boxer
1952 - Michel Blanc, French actor
1952 - George Papandreou, junior, Greek politician
1952 - Gino Vannelli, vocalist, songwriter
1955 - Laurie Metcalf, actress
1966 - Jan Zelezný, Czech athlete
1970 - Phil Mickelson, golfer
1971 - Tupac Shakur, musician (d. 1996)
1980 - Joey Yung, Hong Kong singer
Deaths
1216 - Pope Innocent III
1464 - Roger van der Weyden, Flemish painter (b. 1399)
1468 - Jean Le Fevre, Burgundian chronicler (b. ca. 1395)
1622 - Alexander Seton, 1st Earl of Dunfermline, chancellor of Scotland (b. ca. 1555)
1626 - Christian the Younger, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg-Wolfenbüttel, Protestant military commander (b. 1599)
1666 - Richard Fanshawe, English poet, translator and diplomat (b. 1608)
1671 - Stenka Razin, Cossack rebel leader (executed) (b. ca. 1630)
1707 - Duchess de Nemours, sovereign princess of Neuchâtel, best known for her Mémoires (b. 1625)
1722 - John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough, English general (b. 1650)
1752 - Giulio Alberoni, Spanish cardinal (b. 1664)
1752 - Joseph Butler, English philosopher (b. 1692)
1777 - Jean-Baptiste-Louis Gresset, French poet and dramatist (b. 1709)
1778 - Konrad Ekhof, German actor (b. 1720)
1779 - Sir Francis Bernard, Governor of New Jersey and Massachusetts (b. 1712)
1804 - Johann Hiller, German composer (b. 1728)
1817 - Alexander Dallas, statesman and financier (b. 1759)
1848 - Ludwig II, Grand-Duke of Hesse-Darmstadt, (b. 1777)
1849 - Wilhelm Martin Leberecht de Wette, German theologian (b. 1780)
1855 - John Gorrie, physician, early pioneer in refrigeration (b. 1803)
1858 - John Snow, English obstetrician (b. 1813)
1866 - Auguste Barthelemy, French satirical poet (b. 1796)
1869 - Charles Sturt, English explorer (b. 1795)
1872 - Norman MacCleod, Scottish clergyman to Queen Victoria (b. 1812)
1878 - Crawford Long, physician (b. 1815)
1881 - Sir Josiah Mason, English pen-manufacturer (b. 1795)
1885 - Wilhelm Camphausen, German painter (b. 1818)
1894 - William Calder Marshall, Scottish sculptor (b. 1813)
1900 - Prince Francois, Duke of Joinville, third son of Louis-Philippe of France (b. 1818)
1925 - Chittaranjan Das, Indian patriot and freedom fighter (b. 1870)
1925 - Emmett Hardy, jazz musician (b. 1903)
1930 - Elmer Ambrose Sperry, inventor (b. 1860)
1940 - DuBose Heyward, writer
1944 - Marc Bloch, French historian (executed) (b. 1886)
1953 - Margaret Bondfield, English politician and feminist (b. 1873)
1958 - Imre Nagy, former Premier of Hungary (b. 1895)
1959 - George Reeves, actor, played Superman (b. 1914)
1969 - Harold Alexander, British military commander (b. 1891)
1970 - Brian Piccolo, American football player
1971 - Lord Reith, first Director-General of the BBC (b. 1889)
1977 - Wernher von Braun, rocket scientist (b. 1912)
1979 - Vernon Presley, father of Elvis Presley (b. 1916)
1979 - Nicholas Ray, film director (b. 1911)
1986 - Maurice Duruflé, French composer and organist (b. 1902)
1988 - Kim Milford, actor (b. 1951)
1993 - Lindsay Hassett, Australian cricketer (b. 1913)
1996 - Mel Allen, baseball announcer
1999 - Screaming Lord Sutch, founder of Britain's Official Monster Raving Loony Party (b. 1940)
2000 - Dowager Empress Nagako of Japan, consort of Emperor Hirohito (b. 1903)
2003 - Enrico Baj, Italian avantgarde artist
2003 - Georg Henrik von Wright, Finland-Swedish philosopher (b. 1916)
Holidays and observances
South Africa - Youth Day
Bloomsday, in honour of James Joyce's Ulysses
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