more events on June 16
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1977
Leonid Brezhnev is named president of the Soviet Union.
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1971
An El Greco sketch, “The Immaculate Conception,” stolen in Spain 35 years earlier, is recovered in New York City by the FBI.
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1961
Ballet star Rudolf Nureyev defects from the Soviet Union while in Paris.
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1955
The U.S. House of Representatives votes to extend Selective Service until 1959.
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1952
Anne Frank: Diary of a Young Girl is published in the United States.
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1940
French Chief of State, Henri Petain asks for an armistice with Germany.
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1938
Joyce Carol Oates, American writer and university professor (Them, Garden of Earthly Delights).
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Torgny Lindgren, Swedish writer.
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1935
Jim Dine, American artist.
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President Franklin Roosevelt‘s New Deal legislation is passed by the House of Representatives.
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1932
The ban on Nazi storm troopers is lifted by the von Papen government in Germany.
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1925
France accepts a German proposal for a security pact.
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1920
John Howard Griffin, writer (Black Like Me).
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1917
Irving Penn, fashion photographer, brother of film director Arthur Penn.
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Katharine Graham, publisher of the Washington Post.
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1910
The first Father’s Day is celebrated in Spokane, Washington.
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1907
The Russian czar dissolves the Duma in St. Petersburg.
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1902
George Gaylord Simpson, paleontologist.
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Barbara McClintock, geneticist.
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1890
Stan Laurel, British-born entertainer, partner of Oliver Hardy.
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1888
Bobby Clark, comedian and actor.
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1864
The siege of Petersburg and Richmond begins after a moonlight skirmish.
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1858
Abraham Lincoln, in accepting the Republican nomination for the U.S. Senate in Illinois, declares that, “A house divided against itself cannot stand.”
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1815
Napoleon defeats the Prussians at the Battle of Ligny.
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455
Rome is sacked by the Vandal army.