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 167^th 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.

Under the Julian calendar, this day is June 3, 2025 – a Monday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?

When this day started, 486,120 hours 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 ‘hectahexacontaheptagon’ 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 246 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 4,560 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.

June 16 Historical Events

• 1745 –
  British troops take Cape Breton Island, which is now part of Nova Scotia, Canada.
• 1774 –
  Foundation of Harrodsburg, Kentucky.
• 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.
• 1903 –
  The Ford Motor Company is incorporated.
• 1904 –
  Eugen Schauman assassinates Nikolai Bobrikov, Governor-General of Finland.
• 1911 –
  IBM founded as the Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company in Endicott, New York.
• 1924 –
  The Whampoa Military Academy is founded.
• 1963 –
  Soviet Space Program: Vostok 6 Mission – Cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova becomes the first woman in space.
• 1977 –
  Oracle Corporation is incorporated in Redwood Shores, California, as Software Development Laboratories (SDL) by Larry Ellison, Bob Miner and Ed Oates.
• 1997 –
  The Dairat Labguer massacre in Algeria; 50 people are killed.

Who were born on June 16?

• 1583 –
  Axel Oxenstierna, Swedish statesman (d. 1654)
• 1606 –
  Arthur Chichester, 1st Earl of Donegall, Irish aristocrat and soldier (d. 1675)
• 1792 –
  John Linnell, English landscape painter (d. 1882)
• 1890 –
  Stan Laurel, British actor and comedian (d. 1965)
• 1927 –
  Herbert Lichtenfeld, German author and playwright (d. 2001)
• 1943 –
  Joan Van Ark, American actress
• 1971 –
  Tupac Shakur, American rapper and actor (d. 1996)
• 1972 –
  Simon Khan, English golfer
• 1977 –
  Kevin Foster, American convicted murderer
• 1984 –
  Jonathan Broxton, American baseball player

Who died on June 16?

• 1752 –
  Giulio Alberoni, Spanish cardinal (b. 1664)
• 1885 –
  Wilhelm Camphausen, German painter (b. 1818)
• 1944 –
  Marc Bloch, French historian (executed) (b. 1886)
• 1969 –
  Harold Alexander, British military commander (b. 1891)
• 1993 –
  Lindsay Hassett, Australian cricketer (b. 1913)
• 1994 –
  Kristen Pfaff, American bassist (Hole) (b. 1967)
• 1996 –
  Mel Allen, American baseball announcer (b. 1913)
• 2003 –
  Pierre Bourgault, Canadian politician (b. 1934)
• 2004 –
  Thanom Kittikachorn, Prime Minister of Thailand (b. 1911)
• 2006 –
  Igor Śmiałowski, Polish actor (b. 1917)