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
- 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.
- 1858 –Abraham Lincoln delivers his House Divided speech in Springfield, Illinois.
- 1891 –John Abbott becomes Canada’s third Prime Minister.
- 1903 –Roald Amundsen commences the first east-west navigation of the Northwest Passage, leaving Oslo, Norway.
- 1904 –Irish author James Joyce begins a relationship with Nora Barnacle and subsequently uses the date to set the actions for his novel Ulysses; this date is now traditionally called “Bloomsday”.
- 1915 –Foundation of the British Women’s Institute.
- 1924 –The Whampoa Military Academy is founded.
- 1925 –The most famous Young Pioneer camp of the Soviet Union, Artek, is established.
- 1930 –Sovnarkom establishes decree time in the USSR.
- 1933 –The National Industrial Recovery Act is passed.
- 1940 –A Communist government is installed in Lithuania.
- 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.
- 1972 –Red Army Faction member Ulrike Meinhof is captured by police in Langenhagen.
- 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.
- 1997 –The Dairat Labguer massacre in Algeria; 50 people are killed.
- 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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