Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/June 16

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 * 1407 – Ming forces conquered Đại Ngu in modern-day northern Vietnam, capturing Hồ dynasty emperor Hồ Quý Ly and bringing the country under Chinese rule.
 * 1632 – The Plymouth Company granted a land patent to Thomas Purchase, who became the first permanent European settler of Pejepscot, Maine.
 * 1755 – After a two-week siege, the French commander of Fort Beauséjour in present-day New Brunswick, Canada, surrendered to British forces, marking the end of Father Le Loutre's War.
 * 1883 – In the Victoria Hall disaster, 183 children were crushed to death when they ran down the stairs to collect gifts after a variety show in Sunderland, England.
 * 1911 – The technology company IBM was founded as the Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company in Endicott, New York.
 * 1960 – Psycho, a psychological horror film directed by Alfred Hitchcock (pictured) and based on a novel of the same name by Robert Bloch, premiered.
 * 1963 – Aboard Vostok 6, Soviet cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova (pictured) became the first woman in space.
 * 1972 – English musician David Bowie released his breakthrough album, The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars.
 * 2012 – Liu Yang (pictured), a member of the Shenzhou 9 crew, became the first Chinese woman in space.
 * 2016 – Jo Cox, a British Member of Parliament, was murdered in her constituency.
 * Born/died: | Johannes Tauler |d|1361| John Cheke |b|1514| Yang Jisheng |b|1516| Jean de Thévenot |b|1633| James Bertie, 1st Earl of Abingdon |b|1653| Tomás Yepes |d|1674| Adam Smith |b|1723| Mary Katharine Goddard |b|1738| William Lawson |d|1850| Mohammad Mosaddegh|b|1882| Helen Traubel |b|1899| Barbara McClintock |b|1902| Bazil Assan |d|1918| Margaret Bondfield|d|1953| Sydney Chapman |d|1970| Tupac Shakur|b|1971|Mel Allen |d|1996| Tony Gwynn |d|2014| Helmut Kohl |d|2017