JUNE 16
June 16,2013 In Lagos,Nigeria,Former President-General, Association of Nigerian Market Women and Men and mother of former Governor Bola Tinubu of Lagos State, Alhaja Abibatu Mogaji, died. She died in her home in Ikeja, Lagos. She was 96 years.
Jun 16, Rome was sacked by the Vandal army.
(6/16/98)
Jun 16, Hugo the Great, duke of France, died.
(6/16/02)
June 16,2013;There was panic in some parts of Lagos State following claims that a commercial bus and a private car plunged into the lagoon after being involved in an accident. The news made some commuters and motorists abandon the Third Mainland Bridge while there was stampede on the bridge as those plying it at the time of incident scampered for safety. People made distress calls to relatives, media organisations, law enforcement agencies and emergency bodies as the news spread for hours until the intervention of relevant agencies restored normalcy.
Jun 16, Pope Innocent III died. In 2003 John C. Moore authored “Pope Innocent III."
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_Innocent_III)
Jun 16, Jan Coppenhole, Flemish rebel leader, was beheaded.
(6/16/02)
Jun 16, Mary, Queen of Scots, was imprisoned in Lochleven Castle in Scotland.
(6/16/98)
Jun 16, Stenka Razin, Cossack rebel leader, was tortured & executed in Moscow.
( 6/16/02)
John Churchill, first Duke of Marlborough, English military strategist, died. In 2008 Richard Holmes authored “Marlborough: England’s Fragile Genius."
Jun 16, Spain, in support of the US, declared war on England.
(6/16/02)
Jun 16, Vice-Admiral Hardy sailed out of Isle of Wight against the Spanish fleet.
(6/16/02)
Jun 16, Holland forbade orange clothes.
(6/16/02)
Jun 16, A French attack at the crossroads called Quatre Bras badly mauled Anglo-Dutch army under Wellington, but failed to rout it or to take the crossroads. Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte had marched into Belgium to find himself confronted by two allied armies, which he tried to split apart. Although similarly battered at Ligny that day, the Prussian army also retired intact. Both armies would face Napoleon again two days later at Waterloo.
Jun 16, Denmark Vessy led a slave rebellion in South Carolina. [see Jul 2]
( 6/16/02)
Jun 16, Lucie (Ruthy) Blackburn (30), a fugitive slave, escaped from jail in Detroit and made her way to Canada. The next day a riot erupted, “The Blackburn Riots," as her husband, Thornton Blackburn (21), was escorted for return to slavery. Thornton escaped to Canada to join his wife. The first extradition case between the US and Canada over the issue of fugitive slaves soon followed. Canada ruled it could not extradite people to a jurisdiction that imposed harsher penalties then they would have received for the same offense in Canada and the Blackburns remained in Ontario.
Jun 16, America's 1st roller coaster began operating at Coney Island, NYC. It hit a top speed of 6 mph.
(6/16/02)
Jun 16, Ford Motor Co. was incorporated.
(6/16/98)
1903 Jun 16, Pepsi Cola company formed. [see 1902]
( 6/16/02)
1903 Jun 16, Roald Amundsen (31) departed Christiana (later Oslo), Norway, aboard Gjøa with a crew of 6 to search for the Northwest Passage. They reached California in the fall of 1905.
Jun 16, France accepted a German proposal for a security pact.
(6/16/98)
1932 Jun 16, President Hoover and Vice President Charles Curtis were renominated at the Republican national convention in Chicago.
(6/16/02)
1932 Jun 16, The ban on Nazi storm troopers was lifted by the von Papen government in Germany. Germany forbade SA/SS street brawls.
1933 Jun 16, The 2nd US Glass-Steagall Act, actually the Bank Act of 1933, banned banks from underwriting stocks. It separated regular banks from investment banks. It was the 2nd act of the same name. Mr. Glass agreed to attach Mr. Steagall’s pet amendment, which authorized bank deposit insurance for the first time. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glass-Steagall_Act)
1933 Jun 16, The US Congress passed the National Industrial Recovery Act, which established the Public Works Administration (PWA) and the National Recovery Administration. A $.25-per-hour standard wage was set as part of the Act. However, in 1935 the US Supreme Court declared the National Recovery Act unconstitutional, and the minimum wage was abolished. In July a code of the NRA instituted a 35 hour week for blue-collar workers and a 40-hour week for office employees. Minimum wages were also instituted, ranging from 12 ½ cents an hour for needlework employees in Puerto Rico to 70 cents an hour for wrecking and salvage workers in NYC. Pres. Franklin D. Roosevelt had employers sign a “President’s Reemployment Agreement" covering 16.3 million employees. The employers who signed on agreed to limit work weeks to 40 hours, to pay a minimum wage of $12-$15 per week (at least 30 cents/hour) and to not hire children under 16.
Jun 16, US Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) became effective. The initial deposit insurance level was set at $2,500.
(www.fdic.gov/regulations/laws/rules/1000-200.html)
Jun 16, President Roosevelt's New Deal legislation was passed by the House of Representatives.
( 6/16/01)
1941 Jun 16, The new Washington National Airport opened southwest of DC. In 1945, Congress passed a law that established the airport was legally within Virginia but under the jurisdiction of the federal government. In 1998 it was renamed Ronald Reagan National Airport.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronald_Reagan_Washington_National_Airport)
1942 Jun 16, The SS Port Nicholson was headed for New York with 71 tons of platinum valued at about $53 million when it was sunk off Maine in an attack that left six people dead. The platinum was a payment from the Soviet Union to the US for war supplies.
(2/2/12)(www.shippingtimes.co.uk/item_10244.html)
1943 Jun 16, Comedian Charles Chaplin married his fourth wife, 18-year-old Oona O'Neill, daughter of playwright Eugene O'Neill, in Carpenteria, Calif.
6/16/98)
1954 Jun 16, In San Francisco the 13-foot neon schooner atop the new Hamm’s Brewery building at 1550 Bryant St. was turned on. Brewing at the facility ended in 1974.
(4/10/12)
1955 Jun 16, The U.S. House of Representatives voted to extend Selective Service until 1959.
(6/16/98)
1955 Jun 16, Pope Pius XII excommunicated Argentine President Juan Domingo Peron. The ban was lifted eight years later.
(6/16/98)
1957 Jun 16, There was a French offensive in Algeria.
(6/16/02)
1958 Jun 16, The US Supreme Court, in Kent v. Dulles, ruled that artist Rockwell Kent could not be denied a passport because of his communist affiliations.
(6/16/08)
1958 Jun 16, Imre Nagy (b.1896), former Hungarian premier (1956) and symbol of the 1956 uprising against Soviet rule, was hanged by the Communist government of Janos Kadar.
(www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/cold.war/kbank/profiles/nagy/)(Econ, 10/21/06, p.95)
1959 Jun 16, George Reeves , American film and TV actor, died. Suicide was the predominant presumed cause of death. Reeves starred as Superman on TV from 1952-1958. In 1976 Gary Grossman authored “Superman: Serial to Cereal." The 1996 book “Hollywood Kryptonite," by Sam Kashner and Nancy Schoenberger, discusses the doubts by friends and relatives and the forensic evidence as to whether suicide was even physically possible.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Reeves)
1960 Jun 16, The Alfred Hitchcock movie “Psycho" opened in New York.
(AP, 6/16/00)
Culled from the internet
June 16,2013 In Lagos,Nigeria,Former President-General, Association of Nigerian Market Women and Men and mother of former Governor Bola Tinubu of Lagos State, Alhaja Abibatu Mogaji, died. She died in her home in Ikeja, Lagos. She was 96 years.
Jun 16, Rome was sacked by the Vandal army.
(6/16/98)
Jun 16, Hugo the Great, duke of France, died.
(6/16/02)
June 16,2013;There was panic in some parts of Lagos State following claims that a commercial bus and a private car plunged into the lagoon after being involved in an accident. The news made some commuters and motorists abandon the Third Mainland Bridge while there was stampede on the bridge as those plying it at the time of incident scampered for safety. People made distress calls to relatives, media organisations, law enforcement agencies and emergency bodies as the news spread for hours until the intervention of relevant agencies restored normalcy.
Jun 16, Pope Innocent III died. In 2003 John C. Moore authored “Pope Innocent III."
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_Innocent_III)
Jun 16, Jan Coppenhole, Flemish rebel leader, was beheaded.
(6/16/02)
Jun 16, Mary, Queen of Scots, was imprisoned in Lochleven Castle in Scotland.
(6/16/98)
Jun 16, Stenka Razin, Cossack rebel leader, was tortured & executed in Moscow.
( 6/16/02)
John Churchill, first Duke of Marlborough, English military strategist, died. In 2008 Richard Holmes authored “Marlborough: England’s Fragile Genius."
Jun 16, Spain, in support of the US, declared war on England.
(6/16/02)
Jun 16, Vice-Admiral Hardy sailed out of Isle of Wight against the Spanish fleet.
(6/16/02)
Jun 16, Holland forbade orange clothes.
(6/16/02)
Jun 16, A French attack at the crossroads called Quatre Bras badly mauled Anglo-Dutch army under Wellington, but failed to rout it or to take the crossroads. Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte had marched into Belgium to find himself confronted by two allied armies, which he tried to split apart. Although similarly battered at Ligny that day, the Prussian army also retired intact. Both armies would face Napoleon again two days later at Waterloo.
Jun 16, Denmark Vessy led a slave rebellion in South Carolina. [see Jul 2]
( 6/16/02)
Jun 16, Lucie (Ruthy) Blackburn (30), a fugitive slave, escaped from jail in Detroit and made her way to Canada. The next day a riot erupted, “The Blackburn Riots," as her husband, Thornton Blackburn (21), was escorted for return to slavery. Thornton escaped to Canada to join his wife. The first extradition case between the US and Canada over the issue of fugitive slaves soon followed. Canada ruled it could not extradite people to a jurisdiction that imposed harsher penalties then they would have received for the same offense in Canada and the Blackburns remained in Ontario.
Jun 16, America's 1st roller coaster began operating at Coney Island, NYC. It hit a top speed of 6 mph.
(6/16/02)
Jun 16, Ford Motor Co. was incorporated.
(6/16/98)
1903 Jun 16, Pepsi Cola company formed. [see 1902]
( 6/16/02)
1903 Jun 16, Roald Amundsen (31) departed Christiana (later Oslo), Norway, aboard Gjøa with a crew of 6 to search for the Northwest Passage. They reached California in the fall of 1905.
Jun 16, France accepted a German proposal for a security pact.
(6/16/98)
1932 Jun 16, President Hoover and Vice President Charles Curtis were renominated at the Republican national convention in Chicago.
(6/16/02)
1932 Jun 16, The ban on Nazi storm troopers was lifted by the von Papen government in Germany. Germany forbade SA/SS street brawls.
1933 Jun 16, The 2nd US Glass-Steagall Act, actually the Bank Act of 1933, banned banks from underwriting stocks. It separated regular banks from investment banks. It was the 2nd act of the same name. Mr. Glass agreed to attach Mr. Steagall’s pet amendment, which authorized bank deposit insurance for the first time. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glass-Steagall_Act)
1933 Jun 16, The US Congress passed the National Industrial Recovery Act, which established the Public Works Administration (PWA) and the National Recovery Administration. A $.25-per-hour standard wage was set as part of the Act. However, in 1935 the US Supreme Court declared the National Recovery Act unconstitutional, and the minimum wage was abolished. In July a code of the NRA instituted a 35 hour week for blue-collar workers and a 40-hour week for office employees. Minimum wages were also instituted, ranging from 12 ½ cents an hour for needlework employees in Puerto Rico to 70 cents an hour for wrecking and salvage workers in NYC. Pres. Franklin D. Roosevelt had employers sign a “President’s Reemployment Agreement" covering 16.3 million employees. The employers who signed on agreed to limit work weeks to 40 hours, to pay a minimum wage of $12-$15 per week (at least 30 cents/hour) and to not hire children under 16.
Jun 16, US Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) became effective. The initial deposit insurance level was set at $2,500.
(www.fdic.gov/regulations/laws/rules/1000-200.html)
Jun 16, President Roosevelt's New Deal legislation was passed by the House of Representatives.
( 6/16/01)
1941 Jun 16, The new Washington National Airport opened southwest of DC. In 1945, Congress passed a law that established the airport was legally within Virginia but under the jurisdiction of the federal government. In 1998 it was renamed Ronald Reagan National Airport.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronald_Reagan_Washington_National_Airport)
1942 Jun 16, The SS Port Nicholson was headed for New York with 71 tons of platinum valued at about $53 million when it was sunk off Maine in an attack that left six people dead. The platinum was a payment from the Soviet Union to the US for war supplies.
(2/2/12)(www.shippingtimes.co.uk/item_10244.html)
1943 Jun 16, Comedian Charles Chaplin married his fourth wife, 18-year-old Oona O'Neill, daughter of playwright Eugene O'Neill, in Carpenteria, Calif.
6/16/98)
1954 Jun 16, In San Francisco the 13-foot neon schooner atop the new Hamm’s Brewery building at 1550 Bryant St. was turned on. Brewing at the facility ended in 1974.
(4/10/12)
1955 Jun 16, The U.S. House of Representatives voted to extend Selective Service until 1959.
(6/16/98)
1955 Jun 16, Pope Pius XII excommunicated Argentine President Juan Domingo Peron. The ban was lifted eight years later.
(6/16/98)
1957 Jun 16, There was a French offensive in Algeria.
(6/16/02)
1958 Jun 16, The US Supreme Court, in Kent v. Dulles, ruled that artist Rockwell Kent could not be denied a passport because of his communist affiliations.
(6/16/08)
1958 Jun 16, Imre Nagy (b.1896), former Hungarian premier (1956) and symbol of the 1956 uprising against Soviet rule, was hanged by the Communist government of Janos Kadar.
(www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/cold.war/kbank/profiles/nagy/)(Econ, 10/21/06, p.95)
1959 Jun 16, George Reeves , American film and TV actor, died. Suicide was the predominant presumed cause of death. Reeves starred as Superman on TV from 1952-1958. In 1976 Gary Grossman authored “Superman: Serial to Cereal." The 1996 book “Hollywood Kryptonite," by Sam Kashner and Nancy Schoenberger, discusses the doubts by friends and relatives and the forensic evidence as to whether suicide was even physically possible.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Reeves)
1960 Jun 16, The Alfred Hitchcock movie “Psycho" opened in New York.
(AP, 6/16/00)
Culled from the internet
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