June 16
1487
The Battle of Stoke ended the Wars of the Roses.
1858
Senate candidate Abraham Lincoln declared, “a house divided against itself cannot stand.”
1904
Events in James Joyce’s novel Ulysses took place on this day, which is celebrated as Bloomsday, for the main character, Leopold Bloom.
1933
President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed the National Industrial Recovery Act.
1963
Valentina Tereshkova of the USSR became the first woman in space.
1996
Russia voted in its first independent presidential election. Boris Yeltsin eventually won in a runoff.
2004
The 9/11 Commission determined that Saddam Hussein had no strong links to al-Qaeda, contradicting White House beliefs.
Birthdays
Joyce Carol Oates
1938–, American author, born in Lockport, N.Y., graduate B.A., Syracuse University, 1960, M.A., University of Wisconsin, 1961.
Edward Davy
physician, scientist (1806)
Stan Laurel
comic actor (1890)
Barbara McClintock
geneticist (1902)