About 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 this year. The day of the week is Monday.

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Gemini is the sun sign of a person born on this day. Pearl is the modern birthstone for this month. Moonstone is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.

According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 246 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.

What Happened On June 16

  • 363 –
    Emperor Julian marches back up the Tigris and burns his fleet of supply ships. During the withdrawal Roman forces suffering several attacks from the Persians.
  • 1487 –
    Battle of Stoke Field, the final engagement of the Wars of the Roses.
  • 1745 –
    Sir William Pepperell captures the French Fortress of Louisbourg in Louisbourg, Nova Scotia during the War of the Austrian Succession.
  • 1755 –
    French and Indian War: the French surrender Fort Beauséjour to the British, leading to the expulsion of the Acadians.
  • 1774 –
    Foundation of Harrodsburg, Kentucky.
  • 1795 –
    First Battle of Groix otherwise known as “Cornwallis’ Retreat”.
  • 1846 –
    The Papal conclave of 1846 concludes. Pope Pius IX is elected Pope beginning the longest reign in the history of the papacy (not counting St. Peter).
  • 1858 –
    The Battle of Morar takes place during the Indian Mutiny.
  • 1883 –
    The Victoria Hall theatre panic in Sunderland, England kills 183 children.
  • 1891 –
    John Abbott becomes Canada’s third Prime Minister.
  • 1897 –
    A treaty annexing the Republic of Hawaii to the United States is signed; the Republic would not be dissolved until a year later.
  • 1903 –
    The Ford Motor Company is incorporated.
  • 1911 –
    A 772 gram stony meteorite strikes the earth near Kilbourn, Wisconsin damaging a barn.
  • 1911 –
    IBM founded as the Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company in Endicott, New York.
  • 1930 –
    Sovnarkom establishes decree time in the USSR.
  • 1940 –
    A Communist government is installed in Lithuania.
  • 1963 –
    Soviet Space Program: Vostok 6 Mission – Cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova becomes the first woman in space.
  • 1972 –
    The largest single-site hydro-electric power project in Canada is inaugurated at Churchill Falls, Labrador.
  • 1977 –
    Oracle Corporation is incorporated in Redwood Shores, California, as Software Development Laboratories (SDL) by Larry Ellison, Bob Miner and Ed Oates.
  • 1989 –
    Imre Nagy, the former Hungarian Prime Minister, is reburied in Budapest.

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