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On This Day 16th June - Hedgehog - 06-16-2009 •1487: Henry VII defeats pretender Lambert Simnel at Stoke, in the final battle of the Wars of the Roses. •1958: Imre Nagy, Hungary's prime minister during the 1956 uprising, is secretly executed by the Soviets. •1963: Soviet cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova becomes the first woman in space, aboard Vostok VI. |