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On June 16, 632: Yazdegerd III ascends the throne as king (shah) of the Persian Empire. He becomes the last ruler of the Sasanian dynasty (modern Iran).

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Yazdegerd III ascends the throne as king (shah) of the Persian Empire. He becomes the last ruler of the Sasanian dynasty (modern Iran).

Yazdegerd III was the last Sasanian King of Kings from 632 to 651. His father was Shahriyar and his grandfather was Khosrow II.

People

Born on June 16

Anna Cathcart 2003– Canadian actress (born 2003)
Sam Walker 2002– Australian rugby league footballer
Bianca Andreescu 2000– Canadian tennis player (born 2000)
Justin Jefferson 1999– American football player (born 1999)
Ibrahima Koné 1999– Malian footballer
Snail Mail 1999– Solo musical project of Lindsey Jordan
Karman Thandi 1998– Indian tennis player (born 1998)
Euan Aitken 1995– Scotland international rugby league footballer
Akira Ioane 1995– New Zealand rugby union player
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Joseph Schooling 1995– Singaporean swimmer (born 1995)
Ki Hui-hyeon 1995– South Korean singer (born 1995)
Rezar 1994– Dutch professional wrestler and mixed martial artist
Park Bo-gum 1993– South Korean actor (born 1993)
Gnash 1993– American musician and producer
Maik Brückner 1992– German politician (born 1992)
Vladimir Morozov 1992– Russian swimmer
Joe McElderry 1991– English singer, television personality (born 1991)
Siya Kolisi 1991– South African rugby union player

People

Died on June 16

Kim Woodburn English television personality and expert cleaner (1942–2025)
Ludwig Adamovich Jr. Austrian constitutional scholar (1932–2024)
Barbara Gladstone American art dealer and film producer (1935–2024)
Gino Mäder Swiss cyclist (1997–2023)
Tyler Sanders American actor (2004–2022)
Frank Bonner American actor and director (1942–2021)
Eduardo Cojuangco Jr. Filipino politician and businessman (1935–2020)
Helmut Kohl Chancellor of Germany from 1982 to 1998
Jo Cox British politician (1974–2016)
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Charles Correa Indian architect and urban planner (1930–2015)
Jean Vautrin French writer, filmmaker and film critic
Tony Gwynn American baseball player (1960–2014)
Cándido Muatetema Rivas (born 1960) Prime Minister of Equatorial Guinea (1960–2014)
Sam Farber American businessman
Hans Hass Austrian biologist, film-maker, and underwater diving pioneer
Khondakar Ashraf Hossain Bangladeshi writer
Norman Ian MacKenzie British writer, journalist and educationalist (1921–2013)
Ottmar Walter German footballer (1924–2013)

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Every June 16 on record

  1. 632 Yazdegerd III ascends the throne as king (shah) of the Persian Empire. He becomes the last ruler of the Sasanian dynasty (modern Iran).

    Last Sasanian King from 632 to 651

    Yazdegerd III was the last Sasanian King of Kings from 632 to 651. His father was Shahriyar and his grandfather was Khosrow II.

  2. 1407 Ming–Hồ War: Retired King Hồ Quý Ly and his son King Hồ Hán Thương of Hồ dynasty are captured by the Ming armies.

    1406–1407 Chinese military campaign

    The Ming invasion of Viet, known in Vietnam as the Ming–Đại Ngu War was a military campaign against the kingdom of Đại Ngu under the Hồ dynasty by the Ming dynasty of China. The campaign began with Ming intervention in support of a rival faction to the Hồ dynasty which ruled Đại Ngu, but ended with the incorporation of Đại Ngu into the Ming dynasty as the province of Jiaozhi. The invasion is acknowledged by recent historians as one of the most important wars of the late medieval period, whereas both sides, especially the Ming, used the most advanced weapons in the world at the time.

  3. 1487 Battle of Stoke Field: King Henry VII of England defeats the leaders of a Yorkist rebellion in the final engagement of the Wars of the Roses.

    Last battle of the Wars of the Roses

    The Battle of Stoke Field, which took place at East Stoke, Nottinghamshire, on 16 June 1487, may be considered the last battle of the Wars of the Roses, since it was the last major engagement between contenders for the throne whose claims derived from descent from the houses of Lancaster and York. The Battle of Bosworth Field, two years previously, had established Henry VII on the throne, ending the last period of Yorkist rule and initiating that of the Tudors. The Battle of Stoke Field was the decisive engagement in an attempt by leading Ricardian Yorkists to unseat the King in favour of the pretender Lambert Simnel.

  4. 1632 The Plymouth Company granted a land patent to Thomas Purchase, the first settler of Pejepscot, Maine, settling at the site of Fort Andross.

    Division of the Virginia Company

    The Plymouth Company, officially known as the Virginia Company of Plymouth, was a company chartered by King James in 1606 along with the Virginia Company of London with responsibility for colonizing the east coast of America between latitudes 38° and 45° N.

  5. 1745 War of the Austrian Succession: New England colonial troops under the command of William Pepperrell capture the Fortress of Louisbourg in Louisbourg, New France (Old Style date).

    1740–1748 war between European powers

    The War of the Austrian Succession, 1740 to 1748, was a conflict between the European great powers, fought primarily in Europe, the Atlantic Ocean and Mediterranean Sea. Related conflicts include King George's War, the War of Jenkins' Ear, the First Carnatic War, and the First and Second Silesian Wars.

  6. 1746 War of the Austrian Succession: Austria and Sardinia defeat a Franco-Spanish army at the Battle of Piacenza.
  7. 1755 French and Indian War: The French surrender Fort Beauséjour to the British, leading to the expulsion of the Acadians.
  8. 1760 French and Indian War: Robert Rogers and his Rangers surprise French held Fort Sainte Thérèse on the Richelieu River near Lake Champlain. The fort is raided and burned.
  9. 1779 American Revolutionary War: Spain declares war on the Kingdom of Great Britain, and the Great Siege of Gibraltar begins.
  10. 1795 French Revolutionary Wars: In what became known as Cornwallis's Retreat, a British Royal Navy squadron led by Vice Admiral William Cornwallis strongly resists a much larger French Navy force and withdraws largely intact, setting up the French Navy defeat at the Battle of Groix six days later.
  11. 1811 Survivors of an attack the previous day by Tla-o-qui-aht on board the Pacific Fur Company's ship Tonquin, intentionally detonate a powder magazine on the ship, destroying it and killing about 100 attackers.
  12. 1815 Battle of Ligny and Battle of Quatre Bras, two days before the Battle of Waterloo.
  13. 1819 A major earthquake strikes the Kutch district of western India, killing over 1,543 people and raising a 6-metre-high (20 ft), 6-kilometre-wide (3.7 mi), ridge, extending for at least 80 kilometres (50 mi), that was known as the Allah Bund ("Dam of God").
  14. 1824 A meeting at Old Slaughter's coffee house in London leads to the formation of what is now the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (RSPCA).
  15. 1836 The formation of the London Working Men's Association gives rise to the Chartist Movement.
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  1. 1846 The Papal conclave of 1846 elects Pope Pius IX, beginning the longest reign in the history of the papacy.
  2. 1858 Abraham Lincoln delivers his House Divided speech in Springfield, Illinois.
  3. 1871 The Universities Tests Act 1871 allows students to enter the universities of Oxford, Cambridge and Durham without religious tests (except for those intending to study theology).
  4. 1883 The Victoria Hall theatre panic in Sunderland, England, kills 183 children.
  5. 1884 The first purpose-built roller coaster, LaMarcus Adna Thompson's "Switchback Railway", opens in New York's Coney Island amusement park.
  6. 1897 A treaty annexing the Republic of Hawaii to the United States is signed; the Republic would not be dissolved until a year later.
  7. 1903 The Ford Motor Company is incorporated.
  8. 1903 Roald Amundsen leaves Oslo, Norway, to commence the first east–west navigation of the Northwest Passage.
  9. 1904 Eugen Schauman assassinates Nikolay Bobrikov, Governor-General of Finland.
  10. 1904 Irish author James Joyce begins a relationship with Nora Barnacle and subsequently uses the date to set the actions for his novel Ulysses; this date is now traditionally called "Bloomsday".
  11. 1911 IBM founded as the Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company in Endicott, New York.
  12. 1922 General election in the Irish Free State: The pro-Treaty Sinn Féin party wins a large majority.
  13. 1925 Artek, the most famous Young Pioneer camp of the Soviet Union, is established.
  14. 1930 Sovnarkom establishes decree time in the USSR.
  15. 1933 The National Industrial Recovery Act is passed in the United States, allowing businesses to avoid antitrust prosecution if they establish voluntary wage, price, and working condition regulations on an industry-wide basis.

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