On This Day 16th June

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•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.