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, 1,750,032,000 seconds 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 –
  Sir William Pepperell captures the French Fortress of Louisbourg in Louisbourg, Nova Scotia during the War of the Austrian Succession.
• 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.
• 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).
• 1903 –
  Roald Amundsen commences the first east-west navigation of the Northwest Passage, leaving Oslo, Norway.
• 1924 –
  The Whampoa Military Academy is founded.
• 1930 –
  Sovnarkom establishes decree time in the USSR.
• 1958 –
  Imre Nagy, Pál Maléter and other leaders of the 1956 Hungarian Uprising are executed.
• 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.

Who were born on June 16?

• 1890 –
  Stan Laurel, British actor and comedian (d. 1965)
• 1910 –
  Juan Velasco Alvarado, Peruvian general and President of Peru (d. 1977)
• 1957 –
  Ian Buchanan, Scottish actor
• 1958 –
  Ulrike Tauber, East German swimmer
• 1962 –
  Wally Joyner, American baseball player
• 1977 –
  Kevin Foster, American convicted murderer
• 1981 –
  Ben Kweller, American singer and songwriter
• 1981 –
  Kevin Bieksa, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1987 –
  Per Ciljan Skjelbred, Norwegian footballer
• 1994 –
  Aarya Ambekar, Indian Marathi singer

Who died on June 16?

• 1622 –
  Alexander Seton, 1st Earl of Dunfermline, Chancellor of Scotland (b. 1555)
• 1850 –
  William Lawson, English explorer of New South Wales, Australia (b. 1774)
• 1858 –
  John Snow, English epidemiologist (b. 1813)
• 1862 –
  Hidenoyama Raigorō, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 9th Yokozuna (b. 1808)
• 1866 –
  Joseph Méry French poet (b. 1798)
• 1928 –
  Dr. Mark Keppel, American County Superintendent of Los Angeles County Schools from 1902-1928 (b. 1867)
• 1969 –
  Harold Alexander, British military commander (b. 1891)
• 1984 –
  Lew Andreas, American basketball coach (b. 1895)
• 1990 –
  Megan Leigh, American porn star (b. 1964)
• 2006 –
  Alireza Shapour Shahbazi, Iranian archaeologist (b. 1942)