What are the important events that happened on June 16? Here are historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.
June 16: Facts & Myths About This Day
June 16 is the 168th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 198 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Sunday.
Under the Julian calendar, this day is June 3, 2024 – a Sunday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?
When this day started, 28,641,600 minutes has elapsed since midnight of January 1, 1970 – the Unix epoch.
Strange as it may, if we name this day after a polygon then it will be called ‘hectahexacontaoctagon’ day.
Gemini is the zodiac 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 227 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
The ancient Maya civilization believes that the end of the world will happen on December 21, 2012. There are now 4,195 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.
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June 16 Historical Events
- 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.
- 1903 –The Ford Motor Company is incorporated.
- 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”.
- 1911 –IBM founded as the Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company in Endicott, New York.
- 1961 –Rudolf Nureyev defects from the Soviet Union.
- 1963 –Soviet Space Program: Vostok 6 Mission – Cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova becomes the first woman in space.
- 1967 –The Monterey Pop Festival begins
- 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.
- 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.
Who were born on June 16?
- 1514 –John Cheke, English classical scholar (d. 1557)
- 1583 –Axel Oxenstierna, Swedish statesman (d. 1654)
- 1591 –Joseph Solomon Delmedigo, Crete-born Italian physician, mathematician, and music theorist (d. 1655)
- 1902 –George Gaylord Simpson, American paleontologist (d. 1984)
- 1915 –John Tukey, American statistician (d. 2000)
- 1920 –John Howard Griffin, American journalist (d. 1980)
- 1934 –William Forsyth Sharpe, American economist, Nobel laureate
- 1969 –Mark Crossley, Welsh footballer
- 1972 –Ann Shoket, American magazine editor
- 1972 –Horacio Cambeiro, American author and reporter
Who died on June 16?
- 1777 –Jean-Baptiste-Louis Gresset, French poet and dramatist (b. 1709)
- 1779 –Sir Francis Bernard, 1st Baronet, Governor of New Jersey and Massachusetts (b. 1712)
- 1945 –Aris Velouchiotis, Greek guerrilla resistance leader (b. 1905)
- 1952 –Andrew Lawson, Scottish-American geologist, the first to map the entire San Andreas Fault (b. 1861)
- 1959 –George Reeves, American actor (b. 1914)
- 1984 –Lew Andreas, American basketball coach (b. 1895)
- 1988 –Miguel Piñero, Puerto Rican playwright, actor and co-founder of the Nuyorican Poets Café (b. 1946)
- 1990 –Gertrude Baniszewski, American murderer of Sylvia Likens (b. 1929)
- 1996 –Mel Allen, American baseball announcer (b. 1913)
- 2000 –Empress Kōjun of Japan (b. 1903)
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