On This Day in History June 16, 2018

1858  Abraham Lincoln says "A house divided against itself cannot stand" accepting Illinois Republican Party's nomination for the Senate 1880  Salvation Army forms in London 1904  Bloomsday (date of events in James Joyce's Ulysses) 1935  US Congress accepts FDR's "New Deal" 2000  Israel complies with UN Security Council Resolution 425 after 22 years, which calls on Israel to completely withdraw from Lebanon. Israel withdraws from all of Lebanon, except the disputed Sheba Farm. 632 Origin of Persian [Yezdegird] Era 1487 Battle of Stoke, Nottinghamshire: Henry VII beats John de la Pole & Lord Lovell 1567 Mary, Queen of Scots, imprisoned in Lochleven Castle prison, Scotland 1624 Virginia becomes an English crown colony following the bankruptcy of the London Company. 1745 British fleet occupies Cap Breton on St Lawrence River 1746 Battle at Piacenza: Austria & Sardinia beat Spanish and French army 1755 British capture Fort Beauséjour, expel Acadians 1774 Formation of Harrodsburg, Kentucky 1779 Spain declares war on Great Britain in support of the US, and the siege of Gibraltar begins 1784 Holland forbids the wearing of orange clothes 1794 1st stone laid at biggest Dutch grain windmill De Walvisch in Schiedam 1815 Battle at Quatre-Bras: allies strike French 1822 Denmark Vessy leads slave rebellion in South Carolina 1823 King Willem I opens shipyard at Rotterdam-Antwerp 1832 Battle of Kellogg's Grove, Illinois 1836 London Working Men's Association forms1861 Battle of Vienna, Virginia and Secessionville, South Carolina (James Island) 1864 Battle of Lynchburg, Virginia 1864 Skirmish at Golgotha, Georgia 1871 Ancient Arabic Order of Nobles of Mystic Shrine founded, NYC 1871 The University Tests Act allows students to enter the Universities of Oxford, Cambridge and Durham without religious tests, except for courses in theology 1873 US President Ullyses Grant decrees Wallowa Valley for Nez-Perce indians 1879 Gilbert & Sullivan's "HMS Pinafore" debuts at Bowery Theater NYC 1880 Salvation Army forms in London 1881 Austria-Hungary and Serbia sign military treaty 1882 17" hailstones weighing 1.75 lbs fall in Dubuque Iowa 1883 1st baseball "Ladies' Day" (NY Gothams beat Cleve Spiders 5-2) 1883 The Victoria Hall theatre panic in Sunderland, England kills 183 children 1884 1st roller coaster used (Coney Island NY) 1893 RW Rueckheim invents Cracker Jack 1894 8th U.S. Women's National Championship: Helen Hellwig beats Aline Terry (7-5, 3-6, 6-0, 3-6, 6-3) 1896 Temperature hits 127°F at Fort Mojave, California 1897 A treaty annexing the Republic of Hawaii to the United States is signed; the Republic would not be dissolved until a year later 1898 China's emperor De Zong (Guang Xu) receives Kang Youwei 1899 Victor Trumper's 1st Test Cricket century 135* v England, Lord's 1900 In China, a fire is set by Boxers, virtually destroying the Western Quarter and spreading to engulf many Chinese landmarks 1903 1st Highlander (Yankee) shut-out victory 1-0 over White Sox Source