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 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.
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, 29,167,200 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 ‘hectahexacontaheptagon’ day.
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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.
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June 16 Historical Events
- 1487 –Battle of Stoke Field, the final engagement of the Wars of the Roses.
- 1891 –John Abbott becomes Canada’s third Prime Minister.
- 1897 –A treaty annexing the Republic of Hawaii to the United States is signed; the Republic would not be dissolved until a year later.
- 1903 –Roald Amundsen commences the first east-west navigation of the Northwest Passage, leaving Oslo, Norway.
- 1911 –A 772 gram stony meteorite strikes the earth near Kilbourn, Wisconsin damaging a barn.
- 1922 –General election in the Irish Free State: the pro-Treaty Sinn Féin win a large majority.
- 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).
- 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?
- 1935 –Bill Cobbs, American actor
- 1938 –Torgny Lindgren, Swedish writer
- 1941 –Mumtaz Hamid Rao, Pakistani journalist
- 1959 –John Franklin, American actor
- 1960 –Peter Sterling, Australian rugby league footballer
- 1962 –Anthony Wong Yiu Ming, Hong Kong composer and producer
- 1975 –Anthony Carter, American basketball player
- 1980 –Nehir Erdoğan, Turkish actress
- 1984 –Steven Whittaker, Scottish footballer
- 1989 –Jelena Glebova, Estonian figure skater
Who died on June 16?
- 1804 –Johann Adam Hiller, German composer (b. 1728)
- 1824 –Charles-François Lebrun, duc de Plaisance, Third Consul of France (b. 1739)
- 1925 –Emmett Hardy, American jazz cornet player (b. 1903)
- 1939 –William Henry ‘Chick’Webb, American jazz drummer and big band leader (b. 1905)
- 1961 –Marcel Junod, Swiss physician (b. 1904)
- 1979 –Ignatius Kutu Acheamphong, Ghanaian dictator (b. 1931)
- 1986 –Maurice Duruflé, French composer and organist (b. 1902)
- 1990 –Gertrude Baniszewski, American murderer of Sylvia Likens (b. 1929)
- 1996 –Mel Allen, American baseball announcer (b. 1913)
- 2003 –Georg Henrik von Wright, Finnish-Swedish philosopher (b. 1916)
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