| Date |
Event |
| 1567-06-16 | Mary Queen of Scots thrown into Lochleven Castle prison |
| 1686-06-16 | BC Hammurabi the Great dies - Babylon |
| 1775-06-16 | Battle of Bunker Hill (actually Breed's Hill) |
| 1832-06-16 | Battle of Kellogg's Grove - Ill |
| 1858-06-16 | A house divided against itself cannot stand - Abraham Lincoln |
| 1883-06-16 | 1st baseball 'Ladies' Day' (NY Gothams vs Cleveland Spiders) |
| 1903-06-16 | Ford Motor Company vehicle manufacturer |
| 1903-06-16 | 1st Highlander (Yankee) shut-out victory 1-0 over White Sox |
| 1904-06-16 | Bloomsday (date of events in James Joyce's Ulysses) |
| 1919-06-16 | 1st nonstop transatlantic flight completed |
| 1933-06-16 | Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (US) created (FDIC) |
| 1933-06-16 | National Industrial Recovery Act becomes law (later struck down) |
| 1937-06-16 | Marx Brothers' 'A Day At The Races' opens in LA |
| 1941-06-16 | 1st US federally owned airport opened Wash DC |
| 1947-06-16 | Pravda denounces Marshall Plan |
| 1947-06-16 | 1st network news - Dumont's 'News from Washington' |
| 1949-06-16 | Gas turbine-electric locomotive demonstrated Erie Pa |
| 1953-06-16 | Despite Johnny Mize 2000th hit Yanks lose ending 18 game win streak |
| 1961-06-16 | Rudolf Nureyev Soviet ballet dancer defects to West |
| 1963-06-16 | Valentina Tereshkova becomes 1st woman in space - aboard Vostok 6 |
| 1963-06-16 | Levi Eshkol replaces David Ben-Gurion as Israeli PM |
| 1976-06-16 | US ambassador to Lebanon kidnapped & killed |
| 1976-06-16 | Soweto Day Student uprisings begin in Soweto - South Africa |
| 1977-06-16 | Leonid Brezhnev named president of USSR |
| 1977-06-16 | Ron Guidry's 1st complete game 7-0 over KC Royals. Also Wernher von Braun dies at 65 from smoking |
| 1978-06-16 | Tom Seaver no hits St Louis Cards |
| 1982-06-16 | Britain requests Argentina arrange for return of prisoners |
| 1984-06-16 | Edwin Moses wins his 100th consecutive 400-meter hurdles race |
| 1986-06-16 | One-day general strike in South Africa |
| 1987-06-16 | Subway gunman Bernhard Goetz acquitted on all but gun possession charges after shooting 4 black youths who tried to rob him |
