On June 16, 1933, President Roosevelt opened his New Deal recovery program, signing bank, rail, and industry bills and initiating farm aid.
On June 16, 1829, Geronimo, the Apache leader and warrior, was born. Following his death on Feb. 17, 1909, his obituary appeared in The Times.
On This Date
1890 | Stan Laurel of the comedy team Laurel and Hardy was born Arthur Stanley Jefferson in Lancashire, England. |
1858 | accepting the Illinois Republican Party's nomination for the U.S. Senate, Abraham Lincoln said the slavery issue had to be resolved, declaring, "A house divided against itself cannot stand." |
1897 | The United States signed a treaty of annexation with Hawaii. |
1903 | Ford Motor Co. was incorporated. |
1911 | The forerunner of IBM was incorporated in New York State as the Computing-Tabulating-Recording Co. |
1932 | President Herbert Hoover was renominated at the Republican National Convention in Chicago. |
1960 | "Psycho," directed by Alfred Hitchcock, premiered in New York. |
1967 | The three-day Monterey International Pop Music Festival - which catapulted Jimi Hendrix, the Who and Janis Joplin to stardom - opened in northern California. |
1976 | Riots broke out in the black South African township of Soweto. |
1978 | President Jimmy Carter and Panamanian leader Omar Torrijos exchanged the instruments of ratification for the Panama Canal treaties. |
1987 | A jury in New York acquitted Bernhard Goetz of attempted murder in the subway shooting of four young blacks he said were going to rob him; he was convicted of illegal weapons possession. |
1996 | Russian voters went to the polls in their first independent presidential election; the result was a runoff between President Boris Yeltsin, the eventual winner, and a Communist challenger. |
2000 | Federal regulators approved the merger of Bell Atlantic and GTE Corp., creating the nation's largest local phone company, Verizon. |
2006 | "Lonelygirl15," a fictitious video blogger played by actress Jessica Lee Rose, made her online debut. |
2009 | Sen. John Ensign, R-Nev., admitted he'd had an extramarital affair with a campaign staff member. (Ensign resigned in May 2011.) |
Current Birthdays
Golfer Phil Mickelson turns 41 years old today.
AP Photo/Mark DuncanCleveland Indians pitcher Kerry Wood turns 34 years old today.
AP Photo/Brian Jackson
1938 | Joyce Carol Oates, Author, turns 73 |
1939 | Billy "Crash" Craddock, Country singer, turns 72 |
1941 | Lamont Dozier, Songwriter, turns 70 |
1942 | Eddie Levert, R&B singer (The O'Jays), turns 69 |
1943 | Joan Van Ark, Actress ("Knot's Landing"), turns 68 |
1951 | Roberto Duran, Boxer, turns 60 |
1952 | Gino Vannelli, Pop singer, turns 59 |
1955 | Laurie Metcalf, Actress ("Roseanne"), turns 56 |
1982 | Missy Peregrym, Actress, turns 29 |
Historic Birthdays
64 | Ilona Massey 6/16/1910 - 8/10/1974
Hungarian movie actress and singer |
90 | Barbara McClintock 6/16/1902 - 9/2/1992
American scientist |
74 | Stan Laurel 6/16/1890 - 2/23/1965
American comic movie actor |
70 | Jean Peugeot 6/16/1896 - 11/18/1966
French automobile manufacturer |
71 | Bobby Clark 6/16/1888 - 2/12/1960
American vaudevillian and comedian |
67 | Sir George Frampton 6/16/1860 - 5/21/1928
English sculptor and craftsman |
78 | Edward Davy 6/16/1806 - 1/26/1885
English physician, chemist and inventor |
66 | Julius Plucker 6/16/1801 - 5/22/1868
German mathematician and physicist |
43 | Sir John Cheke 6/16/1514 - 9/13/1557
English scholar of classical languages; supported English Reformation |
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