June 16th, 1939 (FRIDAY)
UNITED KINGDOM: Acting Pilot Officer Guy Gibson is promoted to Flying Officer and assigned with No. 83 Squadron, RAF. More...
Thousands of tiny frogs fall on Trowbridge, Wiltshire during a rain storm.
Destroyer HMS Jupiter commissioned.
AUSTRIA: OELAG the pe-Anschluss Austrian state airline is removed from the commercial register having being subsumed by Lufthansa.
AUSTRALIA: Four men are killed in a mining accident in Broken Hill, New South Wales.