What happened on 16 June?

9 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; last battle on English soil for centuries.
4. 1960 Psycho Hitchcock's shocking 1960 thriller with the shower scene.
5. 1815 Battle of Ligny Napoleon's last victory; defeats the Prussians under Blücher; but Blücher escapes intact and rejoins Wellington at Waterloo.
6. 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
7. 1815 Battle of Quatre Bras Two days before Waterloo, Ney attacks Wellington's right wing at Quatre Bras; tactical draw but Wellington holds.
8. 1903 Ford Motor Company founded Henry Ford founds the company that would put America on wheels and pioneer mass production.
9. 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.