June 16th in History

455 - Rome was sacked by the Vandal army. 

1487 - The War of the Roses ended with the Battle of Stoke. 

1567 - Mary, Queen of Scots, was imprisoned in Lochleven Castle in Scotland. 

1815 - Napoleon defeated the Prussians at the Battle of Ligny, Netherlands. 

1846 - Giovanni Maria Mastai-Ferretti was crowned Pius XII, and he would become the longest-reigning elected pope in the history of the Catholic Church.

1897 - The U.S. government signed a treaty of annexation with Hawaii. 

1903 - Ford Motor Company was incorporated. 

1904 - The novel "Ulysses" by James Joyce took place. The main character of the book was Leopold Bloom. 

1907 - The Russian czar dissolved the Duma in St. Petersburg. 

1925 - France accepted a German proposal for a security pact. 

1932 - The ban on Nazi storm troopers was lifted by the von Papen government in Germany. 

1940 - Marshal Henri-Philippe Petain became the Prime Minister of the Vichy government of occupied France. 

1955 - Pope Pius XII excommunicated Argentine President Juan Peron. The ban was lifted eight years later. 

1955 - Argentine naval officers launched an attack on President Juan Peron's headquarters. The revolt was suppressed by the army. 

1977 - Leonid Brezhnev was named the first Soviet president of the USSR. He was the first person to hold the post of president and Communist Party General Secretary. He replaced Nikolai Podgorny. 

1979 - General Ignatius Kutu Acheampong was executed for corruption. He was the former military ruler of Ghana from 1972-1978. 

1996 - Russian voters had their first independent presidential election. Boris Yeltsin was the winner after a run-off. 

Famous Birthdays:

1910 - Jack Albertson, Actor and comedian

1938 - Joyce Carol Oates, Author

1943 - Joan Van Ark, Actress

1952 - Gino Vannelli, Singer

1982 - Missy Peregrym, Actress