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
- 1586 –Mary, Queen of Scots, recognizes Philip II of Spain as her heir and successor.
- 1745 –Sir William Pepperell captures the French Fortress of Louisbourg in Louisbourg, Nova Scotia during the War of the Austrian Succession.
- 1746 –War of Austrian Succession: Austria and Sardinia defeat a Franco-Spanish army at the Battle of Piacenza.
- 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.
- 1836 –The formation of the London Working Men’s Association gives rise to the Chartist Movement.
- 1858 –Abraham Lincoln delivers his House Divided speech in Springfield, Illinois.
- 1858 –The Battle of Morar takes place during the Indian Mutiny.
- 1897 –A treaty annexing the Republic of Hawaii to the United States is signed; the Republic would not be dissolved until a year later.
- 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.
- 1933 –The National Industrial Recovery Act is passed.
- 1940 –World War II: Marshal Henri Philippe Pétain becomes Chief of State of Vichy France (Chef de l'État Français).
- 1958 –Imre Nagy, Pál Maléter and other leaders of the 1956 Hungarian Uprising are executed.
- 1961 –Rudolf Nureyev defects from the Soviet Union.
- 1967 –The Monterey Pop Festival begins
- 1972 –Red Army Faction member Ulrike Meinhof is captured by police in Langenhagen.
- 1989 –Imre Nagy, the former Hungarian Prime Minister, is reburied in Budapest.
- 2000 –Israel complies with UN Security Council Resolution 425 after 22 years of it issuance, which calls on Israel to completely withdraw from Lebanon. Israel withdraws from all of Lebanon, except the disputed Shebaa Farms.
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