Year 1859
Anandram Dhekial Fukun, father of modern Assamia poetry and essay writer, passed away.
JUNE 16
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16 June: What Happened On This Day in History
Curated historical timeline of momentous political pacts, freedom struggle uprisings, constitutional developments, scientific breakthroughs, and prominent birthdays recorded on 16 June.
Year 1884
The first roller coaster in the USA opened at Coney Island, New York. It was named Switchback Railway.
Year 1903
Pepsi Cola became the official trademark for this beverage brand.
Year 1903
The Ford Motor Company began.
Year 1911
IBM was founded as the Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company in New York.
Year 1946
Indian leaders were invited to London to form an interim government.
Year 1946
C. Rajagopalchari became the Governor of West Bengal (1947) in Interim Government.
Year 1946
Cabinet Mission negotiations were discontinued. Viceroy proposed Interim Government.
Year 1951
Nehru opponents founded People's party at New Delhi.
Year 1963
Valentina Tereshkova became the first female astronaut to travel in space.
Year 1990
Bombay gets 42 cm rainfall, the century's highest. The previous high of 41 cm was recorded on 18, 1986.
Year 1990
GOI announces higher procurement/minimum support prices for all major kharif crops.
Year 1998
Sheikh Hasina, Bangladesh Prime Minister, meets her Indian couterpart A B Vajpayee in New Delhi.
Year 2010
Bhutan parliament adopted the Tobacco Control Act that made this country the first one to impose a total ban on tobacco.
Year 2012
Coca-Cola resumed its business in Myanmar after 60 long years of absence.
Born 1723
Adam Smith, Scotish Economist
Born 1893
Karumuttu Thiagarajan Chettiar, social worker and industrialist, was born at Athikkadu Thekkur in Tamil Nadu.
Born 1920
Hemant Kumar, an Indian singer and music director.
Born 1924
Idris Shah, an author, and teacher in the Sufi tradition.
Born 1934
Kumari Kamala, an Indian dancer, and actress.
Born 1934
M. Muthuraman, noted Hindi writer and professor, was born at Dindigul in Madurai (Tamil Nadu).
Born 1936
Akhlaq Mohammad Khan, an Indian academician and Urdu poet.
Born 1950
Mithun Chakraborty, an Indian film actor.
Born 1974
Glenicia James, West Indian cricketer
Born 1994
Arya Ambekar, Singer
Born 1997
K. R. Narayanan, Vice-President, is the joint candidate of Congress(I) and United Front for Presidentship in July 14 election.
Died 1858
John Snow, an English physician.
Died 1861
Harish Chandra Mukherjee, an Indian journalist and patriot.
Died 1869
Charles Sturt, Indian-Englishbotanist and explorer (b. 1795)
Died 1925
Chittaranjan Das, an Indian freedom fighter, political activist, and lawyer
Died 1944
Prafulla Chandra Ray, an eminent Bengali chemist, educationist, historian, industrialist, and philanthropist.
Died 1992
P. D. Dhhavle, former editor of daily newspaper `Maharashtra', passed away.
Died 1997
P. Sukumaran (50), Malayalam film actor, died in Kochi.
Died 2015
Charles Correa, Indian architect and urban planner (b. 1930)