O.J. Simpson was arrested on June 17, 1994, after leading police
on a slow-speed chase in a white Ford Bronco following his being charged with the murders of his ex-wife, Nicole Brown Simpson,
and her friend, Ronald Goldman.
The chase and subsequent arrest were highly publicized, with
millions watching on live television.
The Death of General Warren at the Battle of Bunker’s Hill.
British General Thomas Gage landed his troops on the
Charlestown Peninsula overlooking Boston, Massachusetts,
and lead them against Breed’s Hill, a fortified American
position just below Bunker Hill, on June 17, 1775.
As the British advanced in columns against the Americans,
American Colonel William Prescott reportedly told his men,
“Don’t one of you fire until you see the whites of their eyes!”
The British won the so-called Battle of Bunker Hill, and Breed’s
Hill and the Charlestown Peninsula fell firmly under British
control.
Despite losing their strategic positions, the battle was a morale-
builder for the Americans, convincing them that patriotic
dedication could overcome superior British military might.
Colonel William Prescott
On June 16, 1965, on their second day of recording at Columbia
Records’ Studio A in Manhattan, folk rock singer Bob Dylan,
along with a band featuring electric guitars and an organ, laid
down the master take of “Like A Rolling Stone.”
It would prove to be Dylan’s magnum opus and, arguably, one
of the greatest rock and roll records of all time.
Bob Dylan (Robert Allen Zimmerman) turned 84 on May 24.
On June 16, 1963, aboard Vostok 6, Soviet Cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova became the first woman to travel into space. After
48 orbits and 71 hours, she returned to earth, having spent more
time in space than all U.S. astronauts combined to that date.
Valentina Vladimirovna Tereshkova was born to a peasant family
in Maslennikovo, Russia, in 1937. She began work at a textile
factory when she was 18, and at age 22 she made her first
parachute jump under the auspices of a local aviation club.
Her enthusiasm for skydiving brought her to the attention of the
Soviet space program, which sought to put a woman in space in
the early 1960s as a means of achieving another “space first”
before the United States.
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Tereshkova, and Nikita Khrushchev at Lenin’s Mausoleum
on 22 June 1963.
Tereshkova (87) in 2024.
