386 Historic Events for June 16
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| 1907 |
Birth |
John Hadfield, author/publisher (Love on a Branch Line)
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| 1909 |
Event |
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
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| 1909 |
Birth |
Willi Boskovsky, Austria, conductor (new years concert)
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| 1909 |
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1st US airplane sold commercially, by Glenn Curtiss for $5,000
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| 1910 |
Birth |
Richard Maling Barrer, chemist
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| 1910 |
Death |
Wendelin Weissheimer, composer, dies at 72
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| 1910 |
Birth |
Lord Richardson, president (General Medical Council)
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| 1910 |
Birth |
Ilona Massey, Budapest Hungary, actress/singer (Ilona Massey Show)
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| 1910 |
Birth |
E G Marshall, Owatonna Minn, actor (Lawrence-Defenders, Caine Mutiny)
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| 1911 |
Birth |
Georg Meistermann, German (glass)painter (Raumpl„nen)
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| 1912 |
Birth |
Enoch Powell, England, MP (C)/racist/Greek professor
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| 1912 |
Birth |
John Peel, MP
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| 1913 |
Event |
South-African parliament forbids blacks owning land
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| 1914 |
Birth |
Stewart Cathie "Billy" Griffith, cricketer (140 for England, 1948)
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| 1914 |
Birth |
Stewart Griffith, secretary (MCC)
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| 1915 |
Birth |
Joseph Kagan, businessman
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| 1915 |
Birth |
Mariano Rumor, premier Italy
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| 1916 |
Birth |
Hank Luisetti, NBA forward (1st to use a one-handed shot)
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| 1916 |
Birth |
Francis Lopez, composer
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| 1916 |
Event |
Boston Brave's Tom Hughes 2nd no-hitter beats Pitts, 2-0
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| 1917 |
Event |
1st Congress of Soviets convene in Russia
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| 1917 |
Event |
49th Belmont: James Butwell aboard Hourless wins in 2:17.8
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| 1917 |
Birth |
Katharine Graham, NYC, newspaper publisher (Wash Post)
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| 1919 |
Birth |
Lord Aberdare, committee chairman (House of Lords)
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| 1920 |
Birth |
John Howard Griffin, US, photographer/author (Black Like Me)
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