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Day Of The Week: June 16
June 16, 2025 is the 167th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 198 days remaining until the end of 2025. The day of the week is Monday.
If you are into daily horoscope then Gemini is your zodiac sign. Pearl is your modern birthstone. Moonstone is your mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
Historical Events: June 16
- 1487 –Battle of Stoke Field, the final engagement of the Wars of the Roses.
- 1746 –War of Austrian Succession: Austria and Sardinia defeat a Franco-Spanish army at the Battle of Piacenza.
- 1779 –Spain declares war on the Kingdom of Great Britain, and the Great Siege of Gibraltar begins.
- 1816 –Lord Byron reads Fantasmagoriana to his four house guests at the Villa Diodati, Percy Shelley, Mary Shelley, Claire Clairmont, and John Polidori, and inspires his challenge that each guest write a ghost story, which culminated in Mary Shelley writing the novel Frankenstein, John Polidori writing the short story The Vampyre, and Byron writing the poem Darkness.
- 1858 –Abraham Lincoln delivers his House Divided speech in Springfield, Illinois.
- 1858 –The Battle of Morar takes place during the Indian Mutiny.
- 1911 –A 772 gram stony meteorite strikes the earth near Kilbourn, Wisconsin damaging a barn.
- 1925 –The most famous Young Pioneer camp of the Soviet Union, Artek, is established.
- 1961 –Rudolf Nureyev defects from the Soviet Union.
- 1997 –The Dairat Labguer massacre in Algeria; 50 people are killed.
Who were born on June 16?
- 1633 –Jean de Thévenot, French traveler and scientist (d. 1667)
- 1723 –Adam Smith, Scottish philosopher and economist (d. 1790)
- 1840 –Ernst Otto Schlick, German engineer (d. 1913)
- 1903 –Helen Traubel, American soprano (d. 1972)
- 1934 –William Forsyth Sharpe, American economist, Nobel laureate
- 1958 –Jóhannes Helgason, Icelandic guitarist (Þeyr)
- 1970 –Younus AlGohar, British spiritualist, author, poet, sufi and humanitarian
- 1978 –Jasmine Leong, Chinese Malaysian singer
- 1982 –Fraser Cartmell, British triathlete
- 1986 –Urby Emanuelson, Dutch footballer
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