June 16th, 1972

Born on June 16th, 1972

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What happened on June 16th, 1972?

June 16th, 1972

The largest single-site hydroelectric power project in Canada is inaugurated at Churchill Falls Generating Station.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Churchill_Falls_Generating_Station

June 16th, 1972

English musician David Bowie released his breakthrough album, The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Bowie

What else happened on June 16th?

June 16th, 2016

Jo Cox, a British Member of Parliament, was murdered in her constituency.

June 16th, 2012

Liu Yang (pictured), a member of the Shenzhou 9 crew, became the first Chinese woman in space.

June 16th, 1963

Aboard Vostok 6, Soviet cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova (pictured) became the first woman in space.

June 16th, 1960

Psycho, a psychological horror film directed by Alfred Hitchcock (pictured) and based on a novel of the same name by Robert Bloch, premiered.

June 16th, 1936

A Junkers Ju 52 aircraft of Norwegian Air Lines crashed into a mountainside near Hyllestad, Norway, killing all seven people on board.

June 16th, 1911

The technology company IBM was founded as the Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company in Endicott, New York.

June 16th, 1904

Irish author James Joyce began a relationship with Nora Barnacle, and subsequently used the date to set the actions for his 1922 novel Ulysses, commemorated as Bloomsday.

June 16th, 1883

In the Victoria Hall disaster, 183 children were crushed to death when they ran down the stairs to collect gifts after a variety show in Sunderland, England.

June 16th, 1819

A strong earthquake in the Kutch district of Gujarat, India, caused a local zone of uplift that dammed the Nara River, which was later named the Allah Bund ('Dam of God').

June 16th, 1755

After a two-week siege, the French commander of Fort Beauséjour in present-day New Brunswick, Canada, surrendered to British forces, marking the end of Father Le Loutre's War.

June 16th, 1632

The Plymouth Company granted a land patent to Thomas Purchase, who became the first permanent European settler of Pejepscot, Maine.

June 16th, 1407

Ming forces conquered Đại Ngu in modern-day northern Vietnam, capturing Hồ dynasty emperor Hồ Quý Ly and bringing the country under Chinese rule.

June 16th, 0632

The final king of the Sasanian Empire of Iran, Yazdegerd III, ascended the throne at the age of eight.

Birthdays
... of famous people, actors, celebrities and stars on June 16th

Born on June 16th, 1972

51

John Cho

American actor

*June 16th, 1972, Seoul

51

Andy Weir

American writer

*June 16th, 1972, Davis

51

Michael Schäfer

German politician

*June 16th, 1972, Giessen

51

Kiko Loureiro

Brazilian guitarist

*June 16th, 1972, Rio de Janeiro

Same Day
Who's birthday is on June 16th?

56

Jürgen Klopp

German football manager (born 1967)

*June 16th, 1967, Stuttgart

50

Eddie Cibrian

American actor

*June 16th, 1973, Burbank

48

Sun Jun

Chinese badminton player

*June 16th, 1975, Nanjing

61

Chairul Tanjung

Indonesian businessman and bureaucrat

*June 16th, 1962, Jakarta

53

Phil Mickelson

American professional golfer

*June 16th, 1970, San Diego

41

Christoph Letkowski

German actor and musician

*June 16th, 1982, Halle (Saale)

25

Tupac Shakur

American rapper (1971–1996)

*June 16th, 1971, East Harlem †September 13th, 1996, University Medical Center of Southern Nevada

48

Willemijn Verkaik

Dutch singer-actor

*June 16th, 1975, Son en Breugel

49

Rajiv Joseph

American writer

*June 16th, 1974, Cleveland

50

Federica Mogherini

Italian politician

*June 16th, 1973, Rome

45

Daniel Brühl

German actor

*June 16th, 1978, Barcelona

68

Laurie Metcalf

American actress

*June 16th, 1955, Carbondale

49

Shane Reed

New Zealand triathlete

*June 16th, 1973, Palmerston North †October 30th, 2022, Palmerston North

49

Alexandre Astier

French writer, director, editor and actor

*June 16th, 1974, Lyon

57

Olivier Roumat

French rugby union player

*June 16th, 1966, Mont-de-Marsan

62

Petru Iosub

Romanian rower

*June 16th, 1961, Fălticeni

50

Thomas Dutronc

French musician

*June 16th, 1973, Paris

23

Bianca Andreescu

Canadian tennis player

*June 16th, 2000, Mississauga

43

Sibel Kekilli

German actress

*June 16th, 1980, Heilbronn

38

Cat Smith

British politician (born 1985)

*June 16th, 1985, Barrow-in-Furness

Same year
Born in 1972

51

Stephen Barclay

British politician

*May 3rd, 1972, Lytham St Annes

51

Maia Sandu

President of Moldova since 2020

*May 24th, 1972, Risipeni

47

Ari Behn

Norwegian author and artist (1972-2019)

*September 30th, 1972, Aarhus †December 25th, 2019, Lommedalen

52

Roland Møller

Danish actor

*March 20th, 1972, Odense

51

Bang Soo-hyun

South Korean badminton player

*September 13th, 1972, Seoul

52

Heryanto Arbi

Indonesian badminton player

*January 21st, 1972, Kota Kudus

51

Zinedine Zidane

French football manager and former player

*June 23rd, 1972, Marseille

51

Dwayne Johnson

American actor and professional wrestler

*May 2nd, 1972, Hayward

51

Joanne Goode

English badminton player

*November 17th, 1972, Harlow

51

Eminem

American rapper, record producer and actor (born 1972)

*October 17th, 1972, St. Joseph

52

Milaine Cloutier

Canadian badminton player

*February 16th, 1972, Granby

51

Michael Wiesinger

German association football player and manager

*December 27th, 1972, Burghausen

51

Chris Leslie

British politician (born 1972)

*June 28th, 1972, Keighley

51

Anniken Hauglie

Conservative Norwegian politician

*September 10th, 1972, Oslo

51

Gwyneth Paltrow

American actress, entrepreneur, writer and singer

*September 27th, 1972, Los Angeles

51

Steffen Wöller

German luger

*September 10th, 1972, Erfurt

51

Johann von Bülow

German actor

*September 26th, 1972, Munich

51

Jude Law

English actor

*December 29th, 1972, Lewisham

51

Josh Duhamel

American actor

*November 14th, 1972, Minot

52

Ong Ewe Hock

Badminton player

*March 14th, 1972, Penang

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Public holidays on June 16th

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Born on June 16th, 1972
Future birthdays

Leap year

Yes: 1972 is a leap year, therefore has a 29th of February with an additional leap day and a total of 366 days (instead of the usual 365 days in a normal year).

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