This Day in History for June 16th;
1567 -- Mary, Queen of Scots, was imprisoned in Lochleven Castle in Scotland
1871 -- Ancient Arabic Order of Nobles of the Mystic Shrine founded, NYC.
1896 -- Temperture hits 127øF at Fort Mojave, Calif.
1903 -- Ford Motor Company was incorporated. The ten employees began producing the company's first car, the Model A
1909 -- 1st US airplane sold commercially, by Glenn Curtiss for $5,000
1922 -- Henry Berliner demonstrates his helicopter to US Bureau of Aeronautics.
1933 -- US Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) created
1941 -- 1st US federally owned airport opened Wash DC.
1947 -- 1st network news-Dumont's "News from Washington"
1949 -- Gas turbine-electric locomotive demonstrated, Erie Pa.
1952 -- A Swedish rescue plane was shot down by Soviet fighters over Swedish territorial waters. The rescue plane was searching for a lost aircraft
1963 -- Valentina Tereshkova becomes 1st woman in space, aboard Vostok 6.
1970 -- Kenneth A Gibson elected 1st black mayor of Newark, NJ.
1975 -- Randy Farland finds a 14-leaf clover near Sioux Falls, SD
1977 -- Leonid Brezhnev named president of USSR.
1987 -- Subway gunman Bernhard Goetz acquitted on all but gun possession charges after shooting 4 black youths who tried to rob him.
1988 -- In Santa Barbara, CA, a team of 32 divers begin cycling underwater on a standard tricycle, to complete 116.66 mi in 75 hrs 20 mins.
1989 -- 4 golfers shoot a hole-in-one on the same hole at the US Open are made all on the 6th hole (Weaver, Wiebe, Pate & Price) Only 17 hole-in-ones recorded since the US open began, today 4 more.
1993 -- The U.S. Postal Service released a set of seven stamps that featured Bill Haley, Buddy Holly, Clyde McPhatter, Otis Redding, Ritchie Valens, Dinah Washington and Elvis Presley.
1999 -- Kathleen Ann Soliah was arrested by the FBI in St. Paul, MN. She had been wanted since 1976 after being indicted on murder conspiracy and explosives charges.
I hope everyone enjoys this day in history!!
MsPriss *PrissieHuggzz* :)
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