June 16
| 455 | Rome is sacked by the Vandal army. | |
| 1815 | Napoleon defeats the Prussians at the Battle of Ligny. | |
| 1858 | Abraham Lincoln, in accepting the Republican nomination for the U.S. Senate in Illinois, declares that, "A house divided against itself cannot stand." | |
| 1864 | The siege of Petersburg and Richmond begins after a moonlight skirmish. | |
| 1907 | The Russian czar dissolves the Duma in St. Petersburg. | |
| 1910 | The first Father's Day is celebrated in Spokane Washington. | |
| 1925 | France accepts a German proposal for a security pact. | |
| 1932 | The ban on Nazi storm troopers is lifted by the von Papen government in Germany. | |
| 1935 | President Roosevelt's New Deal legislation is passed by the House of Representatives. | |
| 1940 | French Chief of State, Henri Petain asks for an armistice with Germany. | |
| 1952 | Anne Frank: Diary of a Young Girl is published in the United States. | |
| 1955 | The U.S. House of Representatives votes to extend Selective Service until 1959. | |
| 1961 | Ballet star Rudolf Nureyev defects from the Soviet Union while in Paris. | |
| 1971 | An El Greco sketch, "The Immaculate Conception," stolen in Spain 35 years earlier, is recovered in New York City by the FBI. | |
| 1977 | Leonid Brezhnev is named president of the Soviet Union. |
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