THIS DAY IN HISTORY 16/06
JUNE 16TH
1779 – Spain declares war on Great Britain in support of the US, and the siege of Gibraltar begins.
1897 – A treaty annexing the Republic of Hawaii to the United States is signed; the Republic would not be dissolved until a year later.
1903 – Ford Motors under Henry Ford incorporates
1903 – Pepsi Cola company forms
1913 – South- African parliament forbids blacks owning land
1917 – 1st Congress of Soviets convene in Russia
1957 – French offensive in Algeria
1976 – Student uprisings begin in Soweto, South Africa (Soweto Day)
1983 – USSR party leader Yuri Andropov elected president
1991 – Boris Yeltsin elected president of Russian USSR
1997 – The Dairat Labguer massacre in Algeria; 50 people are killed.
2000 – Israel complies with UN Security Council Resolution 425 after 22 years of it issuance, which calls on Israel to completely withdraw from Lebanon. Israel withdraws from all of Lebanon, except the disputed Sheba Farms.
2012 – Coca-Cola begins business in Myanmar after 60 years
2013 – Golfer, Justin Rose wins the 2013 US Open
FAMOUS BIRTHDAYS
1829 – Geronimo, Apache leader (d. 1909)
1932 – Ralph Robins, CEO (Rolls-Royce)
1962 – Femi Kuti, Nigerian Afrobeat Musician
1971 – Tupac Shakur, East Harlem New York, American rap star/actor (Juice, Bullet) (killed in 1996)
1980 – Daré Nibombé, Togolese footballer
1986 – Rodrigo Defendi, Brazilian footballer
1986 – Robert Rothbart, Bosnian-Israeli Basketball Player
1986 – Fernando Muslera, Uruguayan footballer
1987 – Diana DeGarmo, Birmingham, Alabama, American singer
FAMOUS DEATHS
1752 – Joseph Butler, English philosopher (b. 1692)
1777 – Jean-Baptiste-Louis Gresset, French poet and dramatist (b. 1709)
1930 – Elmer Ambrose Sperry, US inventor (gyroscope compass), dies
1930 – Ezra Fitch, Abercrombie & Fitch founder (b. 1866)
1959 – George Reeves, actor (Superman, Gone with the Wind), commits suicide by shooting himself in the head at 45
1977 – Wernher von Braun, rocket scientist (V1/V2), dies at 65 of smoking
1979 – Ignatius Kutu Acheamphong, Ghanaian dictator (b. 1931)
2006 – Alireza Shapour Shahbazi, Iranian archaeologist, (b. 1942)
2007 – Grand Ayatollah Fazel Lankarani, Iranian cleric (b. 1931)
2007 – Mikhail Kononov, Soviet actor (b. 1940)
2008 – Tom Compernolle, Belgian athlete (b. 1975)
2008 – Mario Rigoni Stern, Italian writer, World War II veteran and Nazi concentration camp survivor (b. 1921)
2010 – Marc Bazin, Haitian politician (b. 1932)
2013 – Hans Hass, Austrian diving pioneer, dies at 94
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