1567
Jun 16, Mary, Queen of Scots, was imprisoned in Lochleven Castle in Scotland.

1943
Jun 16, Comedian Charles Chaplin married his fourth wife, 18-year-old Oona O'Neill, daughter of playwright Eugene O'Neill, in Carpenteria, Calif.

1963
Jun 16, The world's first female space traveler, Valentina Tereshkova, was launched into orbit by the Soviet Union aboard Vostok VI.

1997
Jun 16, In Japan Sue Sumii died at age 95 working on the 8th volume of her novel “The River With No Bridge." It was about the plight of the burakumin (the untouchables) of Japan. She published the first volume in 1958.

2006
Jun 16, In Martinez, Calif., Susan Polk was convicted of stabbing to death her millionaire psychotherapist husband, whom she had met as a 14-year-old girl in treatment.

2009
Jun 16, North Korea said that two female US journalists whom it jailed last week for 12 years had admitted a politically motivated smear campaign against the communist state. Ri Hyon Ok (33) was executed in Ryongchon for distributing the Bible. She was also accused of spying for South Korea and the US and organizing dissidents according to later reports by South Korean activists.

2009
Jun 16, A Palestinian military tribunal in a security compound in the West Bank town of Jenin sentenced Taghreed, her last name was not released, to a life term of hard labor. The woman (22) said she became an informer for Israel to earn money that would get her out of prostitution.

2010
Jun 16, Human Rights Watch called on Kurdish authorities in northern Iraq to ban the practice of female genital mutilation, and said in a new report that the majority of women in the self-ruled region undergo the medically risky and emotionally painful procedure.

2010
Jun 16, In Kazakhstan 2 US and a Russian crewmate blasted off for the int’l. space station in a Soyuz TMA-19 spacecraft. A woman in the US crew doubled the ISS female crew to an all time high.

2013
Jun 16, In Las Vegas Erin Brady (25) of South Glastonbury, Conn., won the Miss America beauty pageant.