What happened on 16 June?

11 events from the Ever-When timeline, ranked by how much they mattered.

1. 1963 First woman in space (Tereshkova) Valentina Tereshkova orbits Earth.
2. 1976 Soweto uprising South African students protest Afrikaans-medium instruction; police killings galvanise the anti-apartheid struggle.
3. 1487 Battle of Stoke Field Henry VII defeats Yorkist pretender Lambert Simnel; conventional end of the Wars of the Roses.
4. 1960 Psycho Hitchcock's shocking 1960 thriller with the shower scene.
5. 1933 Glass-Steagall walls off the banks The reform born of the Crash's post-mortems: commercial banking separated from Wall Street speculation, and deposits federally insured for the first time. Bank failures fall from t
6. 1815 Battle of Ligny Napoleon's last victory; defeats the Prussians under Blücher; but the Prussian army escapes largely intact and rejoins Wellington at Waterloo.
7. 1815 Battle of Quatre Bras Two days before Waterloo, Ney, commanding Napoleon's left wing, attacks Wellington at Quatre Bras; tactical draw but Wellington holds.
8. 1858 Lincoln's House Divided speech Accepting the Illinois Republican nomination for the Senate, Lincoln declares that the Union cannot endure 'permanently half slave and half free'.
9. 1903 Ford Motor Company founded Henry Ford founds the company that would put America on wheels and pioneer mass production.
10. 1958 Execution of Imre Nagy The prime minister of the 1956 revolution is hanged after a secret trial; his ceremonial reburial in June 1989 becomes the funeral of Hungarian communism itself.
11. 1924 Whampoa Military Academy opens With Soviet money and advisers, Sun opens an officer school near Canton under commandant Chiang Kai-shek, training the Nationalist army that will march north.