June 16

June 16th is the 167th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (168th in leap years), with 198 days remaining.

Events:

• 1963 - Valentina Tereshkova becomes the first woman in space
• 1972 - Opening of the New York Jazz Museum.

Births:

• 1840 - Ernst Otto Schlick, engineer (+ 1913)
• 1858 - Gustav V of Sweden, king of Sweden (+ 1950)
• 1890 - Stan Laurel, actor, comedian (+ 1965)
• 1917 - Katharine Graham, Washington Post publisher
• 1917 - Irvin Penn, photographer
• 1927 - Herbert Lichtenfeld, author and playwright
• 1937 - Erich Segal, author
• 1938 - Joyce Carol Oates, novelist

Deaths:

• 1970 - Brian Piccolo of the Chicago Bears
• 1999 - Screaming Lord Sutch, founder of Britain's Official Monster Raving Loony Party

Holidays and observances:

• South Africa - Youth Day
• 'Bloomsday', in honour of James Joyce's Ulysses

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See Also:

June 15 - June 17 - May 16 - July 16 -- listing of all days

January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November, December