Historical Events for 16th June 2018

1903 – Ford Motors under Henry Ford incorporates
1915 – The foundation of the British Women’s Institute
1947 – 1st network news-Dumont’s “News from Washington”
1953 – Despite Johnny Mize 2,000th hit, Yanks lose ending 18 game win streak and also ending St Louis Brown 14 game losing streak
1955 – Pope Pius XII ex-communicates Argentine President Juan PerĂ³n
1967 – 50,000 attend Monterey International Pop Festival
1978 – Ringo releases “Bad Boy” album; Wings releases “I’ve Had Enough”
1989 – Funeral for Imre Nagy, leader of Hungarian uprising in 1956
1991 – Boris Yeltsin elected President of Russian SSR
1992 – Caspar Weinberger (Sec of Def 1981-87), indicted on Iran-contra charge

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