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On This Day, June 16
- 2025: With the death of Kim Woodburn,Queen of Clean, the Woodburn dynasty ends in the United Kingdom.
- 2019: Upwards of 2,000,000 people participate in the 2019–20 Hong Kong protests, the largest in Hong Kong's history.
- 2016: Shanghai Disneyland Park, the first Disney Park in mainland China, opens to the public.
- 2015: American businessman Donald Trump announces his campaign to run for President of the United States in the upcoming election.
- 2013: A multi-day cloudburst, centered on the North Indian state of Uttarakhand, causes devastating floods and landslides, becoming the country's worst natural disaster since the 2004 tsunami.