Friday, June 16, 2000
History today -- 12:15 am CST, Update by The Master
- 1567: Mary, Queen of Scots, was imprisoned in Lochleven Castle in Scotland.
- 1858: In a speech in Springfield, Ill., Senate candidate Abraham Lincoln said the slavery issue had to be resolved, declaring, "A house divided against itself cannot stand."
- 1897, The U.S. signed a treaty of annexation with Hawaii.
- 1903: Ford Motor Company was incorporated.
- 1933: The National Industrial Recovery Act became law. (It was later struck down by the Supreme Court.)
- 1955: Pope Pius XII excommunicated Argentine President Juan Domingo Peron - a ban that was lifted eight years later.
- 1958: Imre Nagy, a former Hungarian premier and symbol of the nation’s 1956 uprising against Soviet rule, was hanged for treason by his country’s Communist authorities.
- 1960: Alfred Hitchcock's "Psycho" opened in New York.
- 1961: Soviet ballet dancer Rudolf Nureyev defected to the West while his troupe was in Paris.
- 1963: The world's first female space traveler, Valentina Tereshkova, was launched into orbit by the Soviet Union aboard Vostok 6.
- 1977: Leonid Ilich Brezhnev, first secretary of the Soviet Communist Party since 1964, was elected president of the Supreme Soviet, thereby becoming both head of state and head of government
- 1978: President Carter and Panamanian leader Omar Torrijos exchanged the instruments of ratification for the Panama Canal treaties.
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