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Berlin. The current calendar page for Thursday, June 16, 2022: What happened today, who was born, who died? The events at a glance.
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Calendar sheet: Thursday, June 16, 2022
- 24th calendar week, 167th day of the year, 198 days until the end of the year
- Star sign Gemini
- Name day: Benno, Quirin, Luitgard
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History: What happened on June 16?
2021 – At their three-hour meeting in Geneva, US President Joe Biden and Russian President Vladimir Putin agree to talks on arms control. There is no convergence on issues such as cyber security, human rights and Ukraine.
2020 – In Germany, the state Corona warning app for smartphones is launched. The application is intended to make tracking corona infections easier and faster.
2017 – A 38-year-old pedestrian is killed in an illegal car race in Mönchengladbach.
2012 – China celebrates the successful launch of its manned spacecraft Shenzhou 9. Liu Yang, a Chinese woman, is on board for the first time.
2007 – The East German Left Party and the West German alternative election work and social justice (WASG) merge in Berlin to form the new party Die Linke.
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2002 – Israel begins building a security fence on the Palestinian West Bank border.
1977 – In the USSR, party leader Leonid Brezhnev is elected the new chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet and thus head of state.
1967 – The three-day Monterey Pop Festival begins south of San Francisco. It’s one of the highlights of the “Summer of Love” and made Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin and The Who world famous almost overnight.
1897 – Rudolf Diesel presents the engine he invented at the general meeting of the Association of German Engineers VDI in Kassel.
Celebrity Birthdays: Who Was Born On June 16?
1967 – Jürgen Klopp (55), German football coach (Liverpool FC, Borussia Dortmund)
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1952 – Giorgos Papandreou (70), Greek politician, Prime Minister 2009-2011, Minister of Foreign Affairs 2009-2010 and 1999-2004
1942 – Giacomo Agostini (80), Italian motorcyclist, 15 world champion titles and 122 Grand Prix victories
1937 – Simeon Sakskoburggotski (85), Bulgarian politician and ex-King of Bulgaria, Prime Minister 2001-2005, as Simeon II King of Bulgaria 1943-1946
1922 – Gerhard Kießling, German ice hockey player and coach, played 62 international matches for the GDR, coach of the German national ice hockey team 1971-1974, died 2017
Celebrity Death Days: Who Died on June 16th?
2017 – Helmut Kohl, German politician, Federal Chancellor 1982-1998, CDU Chairman 1973-1998, born 1930
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1977 – Wernher von Braun, German-American physicist and rocket designer, develops the “V 2 rocket” for the Nazi regime, in the USA the “Saturn launch vehicle” and is thus considered the pioneer of the first American moon landing in 1969, born 1912
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