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06/16/1907
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John Hadfield, author/publisher (Love on a Branch Line)
Type: Birth
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06/16/1909
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Jim Thorpe makes his pro baseball pitching debut for Rocky Mount (ECL) with 4-2 win, this will cause him to forfeit his Olympic medals
Type: Event
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06/16/1909
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Willi Boskovsky, Austria, conductor (new years concert)
Type: Birth
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06/16/1909
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1st US airplane sold commercially, by Glenn Curtiss for $5,000
Type: Event
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06/16/1910
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Richard Maling Barrer, chemist
Type: Birth
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06/16/1910
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Wendelin Weissheimer, composer, dies at 72
Type: Death
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06/16/1910
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Lord Richardson, president (General Medical Council)
Type: Birth
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06/16/1910
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Ilona Massey, Budapest Hungary, actress/singer (Ilona Massey Show)
Type: Birth
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06/16/1910
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E G Marshall, Owatonna Minn, actor (Lawrence-Defenders, Caine Mutiny)
Type: Birth
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06/16/1911
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Georg Meistermann, German (glass)painter (Raumpl„nen)
Type: Birth
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06/16/1912
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Enoch Powell, England, MP (C)/racist/Greek professor
Type: Birth
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06/16/1912
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John Peel, MP
Type: Birth
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06/16/1913
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South-African parliament forbids blacks owning land
Type: Event
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06/16/1914
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Stewart Cathie "Billy" Griffith, cricketer (140 for England, 1948)
Type: Birth
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06/16/1914
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Stewart Griffith, secretary (MCC)
Type: Birth
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06/16/1915
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Joseph Kagan, businessman
Type: Birth
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06/16/1915
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Mariano Rumor, premier Italy
Type: Birth
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06/16/1916
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Hank Luisetti, NBA forward (1st to use a one-handed shot)
Type: Birth
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06/16/1916
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Francis Lopez, composer
Type: Birth
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06/16/1916
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Boston Brave's Tom Hughes 2nd no-hitter beats Pitts, 2-0
Type: Event
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06/16/1917
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1st Congress of Soviets convene in Russia
Type: Event
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06/16/1917
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49th Belmont: James Butwell aboard Hourless wins in 2:17.8
Type: Event
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06/16/1917
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Katharine Graham, NYC, newspaper publisher (Wash Post)
Type: Birth
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06/16/1919
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Lord Aberdare, committee chairman (House of Lords)
Type: Birth
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06/16/1920
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John Howard Griffin, US, photographer/author (Black Like Me)
Type: Birth
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06/16/1921
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Lord Perry of Walton, SDP/vice chancellor (Open University England)
Type: Birth
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06/16/1922
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Henry Berliner demonstrates his helicopter to US Bureau of Aeronautics
Type: Event
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06/16/1923
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Sun Yat Sen founds military academy
Type: Event
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06/16/1923
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Ake Hermanson, composer
Type: Birth
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06/16/1923
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Henryk Czyz, composer
Type: Birth
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06/16/1924
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South Africa all out 30 v England in 48 minutes, Gilligan 6-7
Type: Event
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06/16/1924
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Sayed Idries Shah, thinker
Type: Birth
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06/16/1925
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Richard Jacobs, philanthropist/sports owner (Cleveland Indians)
Type: Birth
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06/16/1925
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Faith Domergue, New Orleans, actress (House of 7 Corpses)
Type: Birth
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06/16/1927
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Robert Matthews, master (Clare College Cambridge England)
Type: Birth
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06/16/1927
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Thomas W "Tom" Graveney, English cricket batsman (50's and 60's)
Type: Birth
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06/16/1927
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31st US Golf Open: Tommy Armour shoots a 301 at Oakmont CC in Pa
Type: Event
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06/16/1928
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Harold Hanham, vice chancellor (Lancaster University)
Type: Birth
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06/16/1928
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Sergiu Comissiona, Buch Romania, conductor (Haifa Symph 1959-64)
Type: Birth
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06/16/1929
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James Kirtland Randall, composer
Type: Birth
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06/16/1929
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Otto E Funk, 62, ends marathon walk (NY to SF, 4165 miles in 183 days)
Type: Event
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06/16/1930
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Brian Statham, cricketer (masterful England quick for two decades)
Type: Birth
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06/16/1930
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David Konstant, bishop (Leeds)
Type: Birth
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06/16/1930
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Elmer Ambrose Sperry, US inventor (gyroscope compass), dies
Type: Death
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06/16/1931
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Austrian govt of Ender falls
Type: Event
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06/16/1931
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Robert F [Bob] Smith, (Rep-R-OR, 1983- )
Type: Birth
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06/16/1931
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Courtney Alexandre Henriques Laws, community leader
Type: Birth
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06/16/1931
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Ivo Petric, composer
Type: Birth
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06/16/1932
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David Keylsey, actor/director
Type: Birth
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06/16/1932
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Ralph Robins, CEO (Rolls-Royce)
Type: Birth
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