Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/June 16
This is a list of selected June 16 anniversaries that appear in the "On this day" section of the Main Page. To suggest a new item, in most cases, you can be bold and edit this page. Please read the selected anniversaries guidelines before making your edit. However, if your addition might be controversial or on a day that is or will soon be on the Main Page, please post your suggestion on the talk page instead.
Please note that the events listed on the Main Page are chosen based more on relative article quality and to maintain a mix of topics, not based solely on how important or significant their subjects are. Only four to five events are posted at a time and thus not everything that is "most important and significant" can be listed. In addition, an event is generally not posted this year if it is also the subject of the scheduled featured article, featured list or picture of the day.
To report an error when this appears on the Main Page, see Main Page errors. Please remember that this list defers to the supporting articles, so it is best to achieve consensus and make any necessary changes there first.
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Ineligible
| Blurb | Reason |
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| Bloomsday in Dublin, Ireland | missing citations |
| 1487 – Lancastrian forces defeated Yorkist supporters at the Battle of Stoke Field in East Stoke, Nottinghamshire, England, the final battle of the Wars of the Roses. | no footnotes |
| 1745 – King George's War: British colonial forces led by William Pepperrell captured the French stronghold at Fortress Louisbourg on Cape Breton Island after a six-week siege. | Fortress article has refimprove section, Siege article needs footnotes |
| 1858 – United States Senate candidate Abraham Lincoln delivered his "House Divided Speech" in Springfield, Illinois, referring to the division of the country between Slave states and free states as "A house divided against itself cannot stand". | mostly full of quotations |
| 1904 – Irish author James Joyce began his relationship with Nora Barnacle, and subsequently used the date to set the actions for his 1922 novel Ulysses. | needs more footnotes |
| 1924 – The Whampoa Military Academy officially opened under the Kuomintang in the Republic of China. | refimprove, tagged for merging |
| 1960 – The thriller/horror film Psycho, directed by Alfred Hitchcock and based on a novel of the same name by Robert Bloch, was released. | plot summary too long |
| 1963 – Aboard Vostok 6, Soviet cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova became the first woman in space. | refimprove section |
| 1976 – Apartheid in South Africa: Police in Soweto opened fire on schoolchildren protesting against the imposition of Afrikaans as a medium of instruction in township schools, triggering a series of nationwide demonstrations, strikes, riots and violence. | unreferenced section |
| 1999 – Thabo Mbeki was inaugurated President of South Africa. | weasel words, intro too long, date not cited |
Eligible
- 2000 – Israel complies with the UN Security Council Resolution 425 after 22 years of its issuance, withdrawing from all of Lebanon except the disputed Shebaa farms.
Notes
- United Nations Security Council Resolution 425 also featured on March 19
June 16: Father's Day in several countries (2024); Youth Day in South Africa
- 1815 – Napoleonic Wars: French forces under Napoléon defeated Blücher's larger Prussian army in the Battle of Ligny, while French Marshal Michel Ney earned a strategic victory against the Anglo-Dutch army in the Battle of Quatre Bras.
- 1846 – Crowning of Pius IX (pictured): the longest-reigning elected Pope in the history of the Catholic Church.
- 1883 – Over 180 out of 1,100 children died in the Victoria Hall disaster in Sunderland, England, when they stampeded down the stairs to collect gifts from the entertainers after the end of a variety show.
- 1967 – The first widely promoted and heavily attended rock festival, the Monterey Pop Festival, began in Monterey, California.
- 2001 – Robert Edward Dyer was sentenced to 16 years' imprisonment for conducting a six-month long letter bomb campaign against the British supermarket chain Tesco.