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Events on June 16

• 1112 In an exchange charter between the archbishops Adalbert I of Mainz and Adalgod of Magdeburg, issued by Emperor Henry V, the city of Salzwedel is mentioned for the first time with the words actum est Salzvvitele.
• 1775 George Washington becomes commander-in-chief of all American troops in the American Revolutionary War and assumes governmental functions.
• 1871 The victory of Prussia and the allied German states in the Franco-Prussian War is celebrated with a grandiose victory parade in Berlin.
• 1903 Henry Ford establishes the Ford Motor Company in Michigan, which begins motor vehicle production with the Ford Model A.
• 1950 With farmland increasingly infested with potato beetles, the GDR leadership accuses the USA of deliberately dropping the pests over East German fields and begins a campaign against the “American beetle”.
• 1954 The Football World Cup in Switzerland is opened.
• 1960 The film Psycho by Alfred Hitchcock is shown for the first time in American cinemas. The advertising campaign results in queues at the box offices.
• 1963 Valentina Tereshkova launches from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan aboard the spacecraft Vostok 6 as the first woman into space.
• 1967 The three-day Monterey Pop Festival, organized by John Phillips and Lou Adler, begins. The festival at the Monterey County Fairgrounds in California is regarded as the high point of the Summer of Love of the hippie movement and develops into one of the most important concerts in rock history.
• 1972 In Stockholm, the first United Nations Conference on the Human Environment ends. It is regarded as the beginning of international environmental policy.
• 2001 After the Berlin banking scandal, the House of Representatives withdraws its confidence from Governing Mayor Eberhard Diepgen and elects Klaus Wowereit as his successor.
• 2007 The Left Party is founded from the merger of the Party of Democratic Socialism – The Alternative and Labour & Social Justice – The Alternative.

Born on June 16

• 1851 Georg Jellinek, German-Austrian constitutional lawyer and legal sociologist
• 1890 Stan Laurel, British comedian and film actor
• 1902 Barbara McClintock, American geneticist and Nobel laureate
• 1911 Georg Meistermann, German painter
• 1950 Klaus Lage, German musician
• 1961 Can Dündar, Turkish journalist, documentary filmmaker and author
• 1971 Tupac Shakur, American rapper and actor
• 1980 Sibel Kekilli, German film actress
• 1981 Benjamin Becker, German tennis player
• 1982 Annika Blendl, German actress

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Source of events and birthdays: German Wikipedia article „16. Juni“, licence CC BY-SA 4.0, selected, shortened and translated by Birthday Paper.

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