Today in History - History - June 16th

1968Mickey Wright wins LPGA "500" Ladies Golf Classic

1904Bloomsday (date of events in James Joyce's Ulysses)

199191st US Golf Open: Payne Stewart shoots a 282 at Hazeline Natl GC Minn

1815Battle at Ligny: French army under Napoleon beats Prussia

1673Peace of Vossem: French King Louis XIV & Frederik Willem of Brandenburg

1985Pat Bradley wins LPGA Rochester Golf International

1903Ford Motors under Henry Ford incorporates

1858Abraham Lincoln says "A house divided against itself cannot stand" accepting Illinois Republican Party's nomination for the Senate

1891John Abbott becomes Canada's third prime minister.

195151st US Golf Open: Ben Hogan shoots a 287 at Oakland Hills CC Mich

1971Tupac Shakur, East Harlem New York, American rap star/actor (Juice, Bullet) (killed in 1996)

1874Arthur Meighen, Anderson Ontario, (C) 9th PM of Canada (1920-21, 1926)

1829Geronimo, Apache leader (d. 1909)

1987Diana DeGarmo, Birmingham, Alabama, American singer

1943Actor/comedian Charlie Chaplin (54) marries actress Oona O'Neill (18)

1973Talk show host Jerry Springer (29) weds Micki Velton

1956British Poet and Poet Laureate Ted Hughes marries American writer and poet (The Bell Jar) Sylvia Plath at St George the Martyr Holborn, London.

1989Actor Hugh Laurie (30) weds theatre administrator Jo Green in Camden, London

1959George Reeves, actor (Superman, Gone with the Wind), commits suicide by shooting himself in the head at 45

1977Wernher von Braun, rocket scientist (V1/V2), dies at 65 of smoking