Tupac Shakur
b. 1971
American rapper and producer
On This Day · The 167th day of the year
June 16
June 16 carries 10 recorded events spanning between 1632 and 2010. The Plymouth Company granted a land patent to Thomas Purchase, the first settler of Pejepscot, Maine, settling at the site of Fort Andross.
Compiled & reviewed by Roman Tailor · Last reviewed July 13, 2026
What happened on June 16?
June 16 is the 167th day of the year. It marks 10 notable events in history, dated between 1632 and 2010. Famous people born on June 16 include Tupac Shakur, Adam Smith and Gustaf V.
The shape of the day
From 1632 to 2010, June 16 gathers 378 years of history. Most of the weight falls in the 20th century, where disaster looms large.
Gemini is the sign for June 16 — read more on the Gemini page, or see June's birthstone & birth flower.
Released on June 16
Movies, games, albums & shows2025
- TV Revenged Love
2022
- Game Neon White
- Game Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder's Revenge
- Game Frozenheim
- TV The Summer I Turned Pretty
Release data from TMDB & IGDB.
Events
10 notable moments- 1632
Plymouth Company
The Plymouth Company granted a land patent to Thomas Purchase, the first settler of Pejepscot, Maine, settling at the site of Fort Andross.
- 1819
1819 Rann of Kutch earthquake
A major earthquake strikes the Kutch district of western India, killing over 1,543 people and raising a 6-metre-high (20 ft), 6-kilometre-wide (3.7 mi), ridge, extending for at least 80 kilometres (50 mi), that was known as the Allah Bund ("Dam of God").
- 1858
Abraham Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln delivers his House Divided speech in Springfield, Illinois.
- 1883
Victoria Hall disaster
The Victoria Hall theatre panic in Sunderland, England, kills 183 children.
- 1903
Roald Amundsen
Roald Amundsen leaves Oslo, Norway, to commence the first east–west navigation of the Northwest Passage.
- 1904
James Joyce
Irish author James Joyce begins a relationship with Nora Barnacle and subsequently uses the date to set the actions for his novel Ulysses; this date is now traditionally called "Bloomsday".
- 1911
IBM
IBM founded as the Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company in Endicott, New York.
- 1940
World War II
World War II: Marshal Henri Philippe Pétain becomes Chief of State of Vichy France (Chef de l'État Français).
- 1963
Vostok 6
Soviet Space Program: Vostok 6 mission: Cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova becomes the first woman in space.
- 2010
Bhutan
Bhutan becomes the first country to institute a total ban on tobacco.
Famous birthday twins
Born on June 16Adam Smith
b. 1723
Scottish philosopher and economist
Gustaf V
b. 1858
King of Sweden
Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah
b. 1929
Emir of Kuwait
Julius Plücker
b. 1801
German mathematician and physicist
Daniel Brühl
b. 1978
Spanish-German actor
Ernst Laas
b. 1837
German philosopher and academic
Otto Jahn
b. 1813
German archaeologist and philologist
Deaths
- 2017Helmut Kohl
- 2016Jo Cox
- 1977Wernher von Braun
- 1969Harold Alexander, 1st Earl Alexander of Tunis
- 1626Christian the Younger of Brunswick
- 1361Johannes Tauler
Holidays & observances
- —Birthday of Leonard P. Howell (Rastafari)
- —Bloomsday (Dublin, Ireland)
- —Christian feast days: Aurelianus of Arles
- —Christian feast days: Aureus of Mainz (and his sister Justina)
- —Christian feast days: Benno
- —Christian feast days: Cettin of Oran
- —Christian feast days: Curig of Llanbadarn
- —Christian feast days: Cyricus and Julitta
Historical facts, event summaries, and biographical lines above are adapted from Wikipedia under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) license. DateLore adds curation, structure, and original editorial commentary. DateLore is not affiliated with the Wikimedia Foundation.
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