{"id":22130,"date":"2020-06-16T09:00:31","date_gmt":"2020-06-16T03:30:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/?p=22130"},"modified":"2020-06-16T09:20:59","modified_gmt":"2020-06-16T03:50:59","slug":"history-of-16-june-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/history-of-16-june-2\/","title":{"rendered":"History of 16 June"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>History of 16 June<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>1992<\/strong> &#8211;\u00a0U.S. President George H.W. Bush\u00a0welcomed Russian President Boris Yeltsin to a meeting in Washington, DC. The two agreed in principle to reduce strategic weapon arsenals by about two-thirds by the year 2003.<\/li>\n<li><strong>993<\/strong> &#8211; The\u00a0U.S.\u00a0Postal Service released a set of seven stamps that featured Bill Haley, Buddy Holly, Clyde McPhatter, Otis Redding, Ritchie Valens, Dinah Washington and Elvis Presley.<\/li>\n<li><strong>1996<\/strong> &#8211; Russian voters had their first independent presidential election. Boris Yeltsin was the winner after a run-off.<\/li>\n<li><strong>1999<\/strong> &#8211; The\u00a0U.S.\u00a0Circuit Court of Appeals said that a 1992 federal music piracy law does not prohibit a palm-sized device that can download high-quality digital music files from the Internet and play them at home.<\/li>\n<li><strong>2000<\/strong> &#8211;\u00a0U.S.\u00a0federal regulators approved the merger of Bell Atlantic and GTE Corp. The merger created the nation&#8217;s largest local phone company.<\/li>\n<li><strong>2000<\/strong> &#8211; U.S. Secretary of Energy Bill Richardson reported that an employee at the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico had discovered that two computer hard drives were missing.<\/li>\n<li><strong>2008<\/strong> &#8211; California began issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples.<\/li>\n<li><strong>2017<\/strong> &#8211; Amazon announced plans to buy Whole Foods for $13.7 billion.<\/li>\n<li><strong>2019<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 Upwards of 2,000,000 people participate in the\u00a02019 Hong Kong anti-extradition bill protests, the largest in Hong Kong&#8217;s history.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Celebrating Birthday Today<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>1980<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Joey Yung, Hong Kong singer<\/li>\n<li><strong>1981<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Benjamin Becker, German tennis player<\/li>\n<li><strong>1981<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Kevin Bieksa, Canadian ice hockey player<\/li>\n<li><strong>1981<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Alexandre Giroux, Canadian ice hockey player<\/li>\n<li><strong>1981<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Ola Kvernberg, Norwegian violinist<\/li>\n<li><strong>1981<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Miguel Villalta, Peruvian footballer<\/li>\n<li><strong>1982<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0May Andersen, Danish model and actress<\/li>\n<li><strong>1982<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Missy Peregrym, Canadian model and actress<\/li>\n<li><strong>1983<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Armend Dallku, Albanian footballer<\/li>\n<li><strong>1984<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Rick Nash, Canadian ice hockey player<\/li>\n<li><strong>1984<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Dan Ryckert, American writer and entertainer<\/li>\n<li><strong>1984 <\/strong>\u2013\u00a0Steven Whittaker, Scottish footballer<\/li>\n<li><strong>1986\u00a0<\/strong>\u2013\u00a0Rodrigo Defendi, Brazilian footballer<\/li>\n<li><strong>1986 <\/strong>\u2013\u00a0Urby Emanuelson, Dutch footballer<\/li>\n<li><strong>1986 <\/strong>\u2013\u00a0Fernando Muslera, Uruguayan footballer<\/li>\n<li><strong>1987\u00a0<\/strong>\u2013\u00a0Diana DeGarmo, American singer-songwriter and actress<\/li>\n<li><strong>1987 <\/strong>\u2013\u00a0Per Ciljan Skjelbred, Norwegian footballer<\/li>\n<li><strong>1987 <\/strong>\u2013\u00a0Christian Tshimanga Kabeya, Belgian footballer<\/li>\n<li><strong>1988\u00a0<\/strong>\u2013\u00a0Keshia Chante, Canadian singer<\/li>\n<li><strong>1988 <\/strong>\u2013\u00a0Jermaine Gresham, American football player<\/li>\n<li><strong>1990\u00a0<\/strong>\u2013\u00a0John Newman, English musician, singer, songwriter and record producer<\/li>\n<li><strong>1991\u00a0<\/strong>\u2013\u00a0Joe McElderry, English singer-songwriter<\/li>\n<li><strong>1991 <\/strong>\u2013\u00a0Matt Moylan, Australian rugby league player<\/li>\n<li><strong>1992\u00a0<\/strong>\u2013\u00a0Vladimir Morozov, Russian swimmer<\/li>\n<li><strong>1993\u00a0<\/strong>\u2013\u00a0Park Bo-gum, South Korean actor<\/li>\n<li><strong>1993 <\/strong>\u2013\u00a0Gnash, American singer, songwriter, rapper, DJ and record producer<\/li>\n<li><strong>1994\u00a0<\/strong>\u2013\u00a0Grete-Lilijane K\u00fcppas, Estonian footballer<\/li>\n<li><strong>1994 <\/strong>\u2013\u00a0Rezar, Albanian professional wrestler<\/li>\n<li><strong>1995\u00a0<\/strong>\u2013\u00a0Euan Aitken, Australian rugby league player<\/li>\n<li><strong>1995 <\/strong>\u2013\u00a0Joseph Schooling, Singaporean swimmer<\/li>\n<li><strong>1995 <\/strong>\u2013\u00a0Akira Ioane, New Zealand rugby Union player<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>History of 16 June 1992 &#8211;\u00a0U.S. President George H.W. 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