About June 16

June 16, 2021 is the 167th day of the year 2021 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 198 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Wednesday.

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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 230 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.
  • 1586 –
    Mary, Queen of Scots, recognizes Philip II of Spain as her heir and successor.
  • 1774 –
    Foundation of Harrodsburg, Kentucky.
  • 1815 –
    Battle of Ligny and Battle of Quatre Bras, two days before the Battle of Waterloo.
  • 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.
  • 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).
  • 1871 –
    The University Tests Act allows students to enter the Universities of Oxford, Cambridge and Durham without religious tests (except for those intending to study theology).
  • 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 –
    Roald Amundsen commences the first east-west navigation of the Northwest Passage, leaving Oslo, Norway.
  • 1924 –
    The Whampoa Military Academy is founded.
  • 1925 –
    The most famous Young Pioneer camp of the Soviet Union, Artek, is established.
  • 1933 –
    The National Industrial Recovery Act is passed.
  • 1940 –
    A Communist government is installed in Lithuania.
  • 1958 –
    Imre Nagy, Pál Maléter and other leaders of the 1956 Hungarian Uprising are executed.
  • 1963 –
    Soviet Space Program: Vostok 6 Mission – Cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova becomes the first woman in space.
  • 1972 –
    Red Army Faction member Ulrike Meinhof is captured by police in Langenhagen.
  • 1972 –
    The largest single-site hydro-electric power project in Canada is inaugurated at Churchill Falls, Labrador.
  • 1976 –
    Soweto uprising: a non-violent march by 15,000 students in Soweto, South Africa turns into days of rioting when police open fire on the crowd.
  • 1989 –
    Imre Nagy, the former Hungarian Prime Minister, is reburied in Budapest.
  • 1997 –
    The Dairat Labguer massacre in Algeria; 50 people are killed.

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