It happened on this day, June 16
events:
1830 – Start of the French occupation of Algeria.
1888 – Thomas Edison invents the first sound recording/phonograph device.
1904 – Governor General of Finland Nikolai Bobrikov is assassinated by Deputy Treasurer Eugen Schaumann.
1918 – The US Congress passes a new law providing for the imprisonment of those who criticize the US government.
1933 – The first regular conference of the Muslim Brotherhood, founded by Hassan Al-Banna, is held in March 1928.
1940 – General Philippe Pétain becomes Prime Minister of the French state loyal to the Nazi occupation. General Charles de Gaulle faced him by establishing a free French government abroad with the support of the Allies.
1949 – Air France announces the launch of hourly flights between Paris and London.
1949 – The “Israeli” occupation authority expels Palestinian citizens from the villages of Husam, Qatiya and Al-Ja'una, located near the town of Safed in the Galilee, and seeks to settle them by bringing Jews to their place.
1952 – A Soviet Air Force MiG-15 shoots down a Royal Swedish Air Force C-47 Dakota during an intelligence-gathering mission over the Baltic Sea.
1959 – A North Korean Mikoyan-Girovich MiG-17 fighter attacks a U.S. Navy P4M Mercator aircraft over the Korean coast, but the plane returns safely to Japan.
1963 – Soviet astronaut Valentina Vladimirovna Tereshkova flies into space aboard Vostok 6. She is the first woman in history to fly in space and the only woman to make a solo space flight without crew.
1974 – Richard Nixon arrives in Damascus on the occasion of the first visit by an American president to Syria and the resumption of diplomatic relations between Syria and the United States.
1976 – South African police open fire on a peaceful march by black students against apartheid, killing 566 children, known as the Soweto Troubles.
1977 – Leonid Brezhnev takes over as president of the Soviet Union.
1979 – Syrian army captain Ibrahim Al-Yousef and members of the Fighting Vanguard organization carried out the massacre at the Aleppo artillery school. Al-Yousef rounded up the students and separated them by sect, then brought in armed men from outside the school. who opened fire on them, killing 32 students and injuring 54 others.
1984 – Pilot Emily Warner and co-pilot Barbara Cook became the world's first female commercial cabin crew when they flew from Denver to Lexington aboard Frontier Airlines.
1993 – The Israeli Parliament (Knesset) passes a law prohibiting Arab representatives from examining security and military reports. This law is considered the first racist measure taken by a parliament in the world that differentiates the rights of its members.
2012 – The voting process begins in the second round of the Egyptian presidential elections, in which Freedom and Justice Party candidate Mohamed Morsi and Lieutenant General Ahmed Shafiq competed.
2014 – Formula One driver Michael Schumacher wakes up from his coma around four months after suffering a head injury while skiing.
2015 – Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula appoints Qasim Al-Rimi to succeed Nasser Al-Wahashi, who was killed in a drone strike in the eastern Yemeni town of Mukalla.
2016 – Helen Joan Cox, British MP and Labor Party member, was killed by a right-wing extremist in the village of Bristol.
2018 – 17 people were killed following a stampede at a nightclub in the Venezuelan capital Caracas.
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Births:
1865 – Carlos Amveno, Argentine scientist.
1877 – Karel Absolon, Czech scientist.
1888 – Alexander Friedman, Russian physicist. 1890 – Stan Laurel, English actor.
1897 – Georg Wittig, German chemist who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1979.
1902 – Barbara McClintock, American cytogeneticist who won the Nobel Prize for Medicine in 1983.
1926 – Fathia Shaheen, Egyptian actress.
1929 – Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, Emir of the State of Kuwait.
** Saad Abdel Wahab, Egyptian singer.
1934 – William Sharp, American economist, Nobel Prize in Economics in 1990.
** Samir Al-Shaar, Lebanese biomedical engineer.
1937 – King Simeon II, king and prime minister of Bulgaria.
1938 – Joyce Carol Oates, American writer.
1944 – Ahmed Yahya, Egyptian director.
1946 – Judy Rell, American politician.
1951 – Dan Sullivan, American politician.
1952 – George Papandreou, Prime Minister of Greece.
1957 – Abdel-Ilah Ajel, Moroccan actor.
1965 – Bayoumi Fouad, Egyptian actor.
1967 – Osama Al-Najjar, Palestinian politician.
1969 – Naeem Sadafi, Iranian footballer.
1970 – Coby Jones, American football player.
1971 – Tupac Shakur, American hip-hop artist.
1972 – John Cho, American actor.
1973: Nikos Machlas, Greek footballer.
1980 – Martin Strenzel, Austrian footballer.
1986 – Fernando Muslera, Uruguayan football goalkeeper.
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Death:
1778 – Conrad Eickhoff, German actor.
1869 – Charles Sturt, English explorer.
1878 – Crawford Long, an American surgeon, was the first to use ether in anesthesia.
1958 – Imre Nagy, Hungarian politician.
1959 – Sheikh Fahd Al-Salem Al-Sabah, head of the Department of Posts, Telegraphs and Telephones of Kuwait.
1969 – Harold Alexander, British military commander.
1977 – Wernher von Braun, German rocket physicist and aeronautical engineer.
1979 – Muhammad Sadiq Bahr al-Ulum, Shiite jurist and Iraqi poet.
1993 – Madiha Wajdi, Iraqi actress.
2003 – Juri Henrik von Frecht, Finnish philosopher.
2005 – Salem Hanna Khamis, Palestinian mathematician.
2012 – Prince Nayef bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, Crown Prince, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Interior of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
**Thierry Rolland, French sports commentator.
2013 – Akram Al-Watari, Iraqi diplomat, jurist and poet.
2016 – Helen Joan Cox, Member of the British Parliament and member of the Labor Party.
2017 – Helmut Kohl, former German chancellor.
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Holidays and Occasions:
⏪ Youth Day in South Africa.
