June 16 - What happened today?

Home What happened today in history? Blamepro's Almanac for June 16
In the headlines today:

2007	A baby manta ray is born at the Okinawa Churaumi Aquarium in Tokyo; the first manta ever born in captivity.
2000	The mega-merger of local phone companies Bell Atlantic and GTE is approved.
1996	Sportscaster Mel Allen dies in Greenwich, Connecticut, at age 83.
1977	Leonid Brezhnev is named president of the Soviet Union.
1977	Rocket scientist Wernher von Braun dies at age 65.
1963	Soviet cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova becomes the first woman in space, aboard Vostok Six.
1961	Ballet performer Rudolf Nureyev defects from the Soviet Union while in Paris.
1952	Anne Frank: Diary of a Young Girl is published in the United States.
1903	The Ford Motor Company is incorporated.
1893	F.W. Rueckheim introduces Cracker Jack® candy at the World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago's First World Fair.
1884	The first roller coaster in the US begins operation at Coney Island, NY.
1858	Abraham Lincoln accepts the Republican nomination for the US Senate in Illinois.