Sunday June 16, 2024
A date scroll with Latin text from “The Extremes of Good and Evil” by Cicero, written in 45 BC.

June 16: Day of the Week

June 16, 2024 is the 168th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 198 days remaining until the end of the year. The day of the week is Sunday.

If you are trying to learn Japanese then this day of the week in Japanese is Nichiyōbi.

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Here’s the June calendar. You can also browse the full year monthly calendar.

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Zodiac & Birthstone

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.

June 16 Historical Event(s)

1487
Battle of Stoke Field, the final engagement of the Wars of the Roses.
1746
War of Austrian Succession: Austria and Sardinia defeat a Franco-Spanish army at the Battle of Piacenza.
1774
Foundation of Harrodsburg, Kentucky.
1858
Abraham Lincoln delivers his House Divided speech in Springfield, Illinois.
1883
The Victoria Hall theatre panic in Sunderland, England kills 183 children.
1891
John Abbott becomes Canada’s third Prime Minister.
1904
Eugen Schauman assassinates Nikolai Bobrikov, Governor-General of Finland.
1911
IBM founded as the Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company in Endicott, New York.
1961
Rudolf Nureyev defects from the Soviet Union.
1997
The Dairat Labguer massacre in Algeria; 50 people are killed.

Who were born on June 16?

1840
Ernst Otto Schlick, German engineer (d. 1913)
1888
Peter Stoner, American mathematician and astronomer (d. 1980)
1897
Elaine Hammerstein, American actress (d. 1948)
1955
Tree Rollins, American basketball player
1962
Arnold Vosloo, South African actor
1962
Femi Kuti, Nigerian afrobeat musician
1970
Clifton Collins Jr., American actor
1972
John Cho, Korean-American actor
1980
Nehir Erdoğan, Turkish actress
1981
Ben Kweller, American singer and songwriter

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