June 16<\/p>\n
1760 \u2013 During the French and Indian War, Robert Rogers and his Rangers surprise French held Fort Sainte Th\u00e9r\u00e8se on the Richelieu River near Lake Champlain. The fort is raided and burned.<\/p>\n
1829 \u2013\u00a0 Goyaa\u0142\u00e9 of the Bedonkohe Chiricahua Apache – known to the Spanish as Geronimo -is born near what is now Turkey Creek Arizona.<\/p>\n
1858 \u2013 Accepting the Illinois Republican Party’s nomination as that state’s US Senator, Abraham Lincoln delivers a speech at Springfield, Illinois in which he declares “A house divided against itself, cannot stand.”<\/p>\n
1884 \u2013 The first purpose built roller coaster, LaMarcus Adna Thompson’s “Switchback Railway”, opens in New York’s Coney Island amusement park.<\/p>\n
1897 \u2013 A treaty between the governments of the Republic of Hawaii and the United States to annex the nation is signed, to take effect the next year.<\/p>\n
1903 \u2013 The Ford Motor Company is incorporated.<\/p>\n
1911 \u2013 IBM is founded as the Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company in Endicott, New York.<\/p>\n
1933 \u2013 As part of the ‘New Deal’, the National Industrial Recovery Act<\/em> is signed into law by President Roosevelt, allowing businesses to avoid antitrust prosecution if they establish voluntary wage, price, and working condition regulations on an industry-wide basis.<\/p>\n 1944 \u2013 George Junius Stinney Jr., age 14, convicted in South Carolina for the rape and murder of two preteen girls, becomes the youngest person executed in the U.S. in the 20th century.<\/p>\n 1963 \u2013 Aboard Vostok 6, <\/em>Soviet cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova becomes the first woman in space.<\/p>\n 1977 \u2013 Oracle Corporation is incorporated in Redwood Shores, California, as Software Development Laboratories (SDL), by Larry Ellison, Bob Miner and Ed Oates.<\/p>\n 1981 \u2013 Ronald Reagan awards the Congressional Gold Medal to Ken Taylor, Canada’s former ambassador to Iran, for helping 6 Americans escape from Iran during the hostage crisis of 1979\u201381<\/p>\n 2010 \u2013 Bhutan becomes the first country to institute a total ban on tobacco.<\/p>\n 2012 \u2013 The United States Air Force’s robotic Boeing X-37B spaceplane returns to Earth after a classified 469-day orbital mission.<\/p>\n 2016 \u2013 Shanghai Disneyland Park, the first Disney Park in Mainland China, opens to the public.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" June 16 1760 \u2013 During the French and Indian War, Robert Rogers and his Rangers surprise French held Fort Sainte Th\u00e9r\u00e8se on the Richelieu River near Lake Champlain. The fort is raided and burned. 1829 \u2013\u00a0 Goyaa\u0142\u00e9 of the Bedonkohe Chiricahua Apache – known to the Spanish as Geronimo -is born near what is now … Continue reading “”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56064","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-today"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56064","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=56064"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56064\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":93603,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56064\/revisions\/93603"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}