📜 This Day in History

June 16

• 632The final king of the Sasanian Empire of Iran, Yazdegerd III, ascended the throne at the age of eight.
• 1755After 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.
• 1883In 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.
• 1960Psycho, a psychological horror film directed by Alfred Hitchcock and based on a novel of the same name by Robert Bloch, premiered.
• 1972English musician David Bowie released his breakthrough album, The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars.
• 2016Jo Cox, a British Member of Parliament, was murdered in her constituency.

Born on this day

• 1723Adam Smith, Scottish philosopher and economist (died 1790)
• 1902Barbara McClintock, American geneticist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1992)
• 1967Jürgen Klopp, German footballer and manager
• 1971Tupac Shakur, American rapper and producer (died 1996)