June 16: Zodiac, Trivia, Birthdays and Holidays

June 16th marks the 167th day of the Gregorian calendar year (or the 168th in case of leap years). There are 198 days remaining until the end of the year. People born on this day are under the sign of Gemini. Famous birthdays on this day include Tupac Shakur (rapper) (1971), Emmanuel Moire (1979) and Jean d'Ormesson (1925). Holidays and observances around the world include: International Day of Family Remittances.
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Holidays

South Africa - Youth Day.
Roman Catholic Church - Feast of Saint John Regis, patron of medical social workers.
Bloomsday, in honour of Leopold Bloom, the hero of James Joyce's Ulysses set on 16 June, 1904.
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Events

2019 Syrian Civil War, Northwestern Syria offensive (April 2019, 2019-present): Three Turkish soldiers were wounded in a mortar attack by the Turkish Land Forces on a Murak observation post. (Al Jazeera), (Daily Sabah). At least 12 people were killed when jihadists attacked Aleppo Governorate using mortars.
2018 Yemeni Civil War (2015)-present: Battle of Al Hudaydah. After driving out Houthi forces, Saudi Arabian-led coalition forces seize control over Hodeida International Airport. In the Yemeni port of Sanaa, around 280 people were reported to have been killed over the past four days.
2017 June 2017, Jerusalem attack: An Israeli policewoman is fatally attacked near Jerusalem's Damascus Gate. Three Palestinian attackers are also killed. Israeli authorities interrogated ISIL claims. PFLP and Hamas also claim that it was their members who committed the crime.
2016 Libyan Civil War (2014-2018): At least 10 security personnel in Abu Qurayn, west-of Sirte, are killed by a suicide bomber.
2015 Al-Qaeda insurgency in Yemen: Al-Qaeda in Arabian Peninsula announces the death of its leader Nasser al-Wuhayshi in a drone strike by the United States last Friday.
2014 2014 Northern Iraq offensive: ISIL seizes Tal Afar, Iraq. (Voice of America). The Pentagon sends USS Mesa Verde into the Persian Gulf to join the contingent of U.S. Navy vessels already stationed there in order to monitor the northern offensive.
2013 At least twenty people are killed in a series of car bombings carried out by insurgents in central and southern Iraq.
2012 Syrian uprising (2011-present).
2011 Ayman al-Zawahiri has been selected to succeed Osama bin Laden as the next leader of al-Qaeda
2010 The Jamaican Government has ordered civilians to stay off the streets for 2 days in several Kingston slums, because authorities are still searching for Christopher Coke (assumed to be a drug lord by the United States).
2009 Iran
2008 California holds its first legal recognized same-sex marriages.
2007 The Fono has selected Tupua Tamasese Tupuola Tufuga Efi as the O le Ao o le Malo Samoa.
2006 The United States House of Representatives approves a resolution 256-153 supporting President Bush's policy regarding Iraq.
2005 According to the Metropolitan Police, children from Africa are being brought into the UK by traffickers in order to be used as human sacrifices. (BBC),
2004 The initial report of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States (or quot9/11 Commissionquot), is issued by the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States (or quot9/11 Commissionquot).
2003 To commemorate the site where the Ipatiev House once stood, the Church of All Saints in Yekaterinburg has been consecrated.
2002 Pope John Paul II made Pio di Pietrelcina a Saint.
2000 After 22 years, Israel has complied with UN Security Council Resolution 425. This resolution calls for Israel to withdraw completely from Lebanon. Israel has withdrawn from all of Lebanon except for the Sheba Farms.
1999 Ira & Larry Goldberg Coins & Collectibles auctions a US 1907 Saint-Gaudens, Ultra-High Relief, Roman Numerals gold double eagle, PR-67 PCGS, for $1.21 million to Tangible Asset Galleries, the first $1 million coin at auction.
1997 31st Music City News Country Awards: Alan Jackson and LeAnn Rimes
1996 1st competitive game played on turf in Holland
1995 Batman Forever opens with a record $528 million weekend
1994 Martin Brodeur becomes 1st Devil to win Calder Trophy
1992 Great Britain postage stamp 350 year battle near Edgehill
1991 Fiddler on the Roof closes at Gershwin Theater NYC after 241 performances
1990 Nelson andWinnie Mandela visit Leidseplein, Amsterdam
1989 Ghostbusters II premieres
1988 Boston Red Sox Barrett steals home
1987 Subway gunman Bernhard Goetz acquitted on all but gun possession charges after shooting 4 black youths who tried to rob him
1986 1 day general strike in South Africa
1985 85th US Golf Open: Andy North shoots a 279 at Oakland Hills Country Club - Michigan
1984 Matt de Waal finishes 14,290-mi round trip from Salt Lake City
1983 Pope John Paul II visits Poland
1982 Britain requests Argentina arrange for return of prisoners.
1980 Blues Brothers, premieres in Chicago
1979 Logical Song by Supertramp peaks at #6
1977 Beatlemania opens on Broadway
1976 The Soweto riots in South Africa begin.
1975 Supreme Court rules uniform minimum legal fees are a violation
1974 74th US Golf Open: Hale Irwin shoots a 287 at Winged Foot Golf Club - New York
1973 Leonid I Brezhnev visit US
1972 Red Army Faction member Ulrike Meinhof is captured by police in Langenhagen.
1971 Groningen soccer team forms in Groningen
1970 Kenneth A Gibson elected 1st black Mayor of Newark, New Jersey
1969 US Supreme Court rules suspension of Adam Clayton Powell Jr from House had been unconstitutional.
1968 68th US Golf Open: Lee Trevino shoots a 275 at Oak Hill Country Club - New York
1967 50,000 attend Monterey International Pop Festival.
1966 Rowan & Martin Show, debuts on NBC-TV
1965 A planned anti-war protest at The Pentagon becomes a teach-in, with demonstrators distributing 50,000 leaflets in and around the building.
1964 Amnesty granted to 3,000 political prisoners
1963 Valentina Tereshkova (USSR) is 1st woman in space, aboard Vostok 6
1962 2 US army officers killed in Saigon
1961 Dave Garroway is fired as Today Show host
1960 Psycho, opens in New York
1958 Government troops land on North-Celebes Indonesia
1957 French offensive in Algeria
1956 56th US Golf Open: Cary Middlecoff shoots a 281 at Oak Hill Country Club - New York
1955 Louise Suggs wins LPGA Triangle Round Robin Golf Tournament
1954 Dutch military conscription shortened from 20 to 18 months
1953 Despite Johnny Mize 2,000th hit, Yanks lose ending 18 game win streak and also ending St. Louis Browns 14 game losing streak
1952 Soviet Fighters shoot Swedish Catalina reconnaissance flight down
1951 51st US Golf Open: Ben Hogan shoots a 287 at Oakland Hills Country Club - Michigan
1949 Gas turbine-electric locomotive demonstrated, Erie, Pennsylvania, USA.
1947 Pravda denounces Marshall Plan
1946 Annie Get Your Gun opens at Imperial Theater NYC for 1147 performances
1945 71st Preakness: Wayne D Wright aboard Polynesian wins in 1:58.8
1944 Iceland adopts constitution
1943 Race riot in Beaumont Texas (two die).
1941 First US federally-owned airport opened in Washington DC.
1940 General De Gaulle arrives in Bordeaux
1938 Jimmie Foxx is walked a record 6 consecutive times by Browns
1936 Dutch Queen Wilhelmina opens the Waal bridge
1933 US Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) created.
1932 Germany forbids SA / SS-gang fights
1931 Austrian government of Ender falls
1930 Sovnarkom establishes decree time in the USSR.
1929 Otto E Funk, 62, ends marathon walk
1927 31st US Golf Open: Tommy Armour shoots a 301 at Oakmont Country Club - Pennsylvania
1925 The most famous Young Pioneer camp of the USSR, Artek, is established.
1924 South Africa all out 30 vs. England in 48 minutes, Gilligan 6-7
1923 Sun Yat Sen founds military academy
1922 Henry Berliner demonstrates his helicopter to US Bureau of Aeronautics.
1921 US Congress creates the office of Undersecretary of the Treasurer.
1917 49th Belmont: James Butwell aboard Hourless wins in 2:17.8
1915 Foundation of the British Women's Institute.
1913 South-African parliament forbids blacks owning land
1911 In Kilbourn, Wisconsin, USA a meteorite strikes a barn.
1909 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
1904 Eugen Schauman assassinates Nikolai Bobrikov, Governor-General of Finland.
1903 Pepsi Cola company forms
1902 Australia: Female British subjects (with the exception of Asians, Aborigines and Africans) win the vote with the Uniform Franchise Act.
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