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On the morning of 16 June 1976, between 3,000 and 20,000 [15] [16] black students walked from their schools to Orlando Stadium for a rally to protest having to learn in Afrikaans in school. Many students who later participated in the protest arrived at schools that morning without prior knowledge of the protest but agreed to become involved.
At 10:32am on June 16, 1976, a workman operating a skip loader in the median near the intersection of Venice Boulevard and Bagley Avenue struck an 8 inches (200 mm) gas pipeline owned by Standard Oil Company of California (now Chevron Corporation). Gasoline under 600 pounds per square inch (4,100 kPa) of pressure sprayed into the air and over ...
16 June 16, 1976 (Wednesday ... The following events occurred in June 1976: ... Died: Adolph Zukor, 103, American film producer who created the Paramount Pictures ...
Zolile Hector Pieterson (19 August 1963 – 16 June 1976) was a South African schoolboy who was shot and killed at the age of 12 during the Soweto uprising in 1976, when the police opened fire on black students protesting the enforcement of teaching in Afrikaans, mostly spoken by the white and coloured population in South Africa, as the medium of instruction for all school subjects.
June 5 – The Teton Dam collapses in southeast Idaho, killing 11 people. June 13 – Savage thunderstorms roll through the state of Iowa spawning several tornadoes, including an F-5 tornado that destroys the town of Jordan, Iowa. June 16 – Francis E. Meloy, Jr., the newly appointed United States Ambassador to Lebanon, is assassinated in Beirut.
June 16, 1976: Mother, Jugs & Speed: $889,200: Mother, ... Paramount Pictures' biggest opening weekend at that time, and set the record for a December opening ...
June 6 D-Day Coast Guard veteran Jack Hamlin is overcome with emotion after he was presented an American Flag in a ceremony by the U.S. Coast Guard, on the 80th anniversary of the D-Day invasion ...
On 16 June 1976, the Soweto uprising began as police confronted protesting students. [3]: 20 Nzima took the photograph of fatally wounded Hector Pieterson (12) on the corner of Moema and Vilakazi Streets in Orlando West, Soweto, near Phefeni High School.