June 16
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- 1487 - Battle of Stoke Field, the last dying breath of the Wars of the Roses.
- 1586 - Mary Queen of Scots recognizes Philip II of Spain as her heir.
- 1745 - British troops take Cape Breton Island, which is now part of Nova Scotia, Canada.
- 1755 - French and Indian War: French surrender Fort Beauséjour to the British, leading to the expulsion of the Acadians.
- 1779 - Spain declares war on the Kingdom of Great Britain, and the siege of Gibraltar begins.
- 1815 - Battle of Ligny and Battle of Quatre Bras, two days before Waterloo.
- 1846 - The Papal conclave of 1846 concludes. Pope Pius IX is elected pope, beginning the longest reign in the history of the papacy (not counting St. Peter).
- 1903 - Roald Amundsen commences first east-west navigation of the Northwest Passage by leaving Oslo, Norway.
- 1922 - General election in Irish Free State: large majority to pro-Treaty Sinn Féin.
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- 1955 - Pope Pius XII excommunicates Juan Perón.
- 1963 - Soviet Space Program: Vostok 6 Mission, Cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova becomes the first woman in space.
- 1972 - Red Army Faction member Ulrike Meinhof is captured by police in Langenhagen.
- 1989 - Historic reburial of Imre Nagy, the former Hungarian Prime Minister in Budapest.
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