What happend on 16th June

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17.06
1956

Ted Hughes marries Sylvia Plath

1955

Pope Pius XII excommunicates Juan Perón

1948

The storming of the cockpit of the Miss Macao passenger seaplane, operated by the Cathay Pacific airline, marks the first skyjacking of a commercial plane.

1940

A Communist government is installed in Lithuania

1940

World War II: Marshal Henri Philippe Pétain becomes Premier of Vichy France

1925

The most famous Young Pioneer camp of the USSR, Artek established.

1924

Whampoa Military Academy is founded

1922

General election in Irish Free State: large majority to pro-Treaty Sinn Féin

1915

Foundation of the British Women's Institute

1911

A 772 gram stony meteorite struck earth near Kilbourn, Columbia County, Wisconsin damaging a barn.