Monday June 16, 2025
A date scroll with Latin text from “The Extremes of Good and Evil” by Cicero, written in 45 BC.

: Day of the Week

was the of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There were until the end of the year. The day of the week was .

If you are trying to learn French then this day of the week in French is lundi.

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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.

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by the Numbers

  • days since
  • year, month, and days ago
  • month since then
  • is in the th week of the year (ISO 8601)
  • weeks ago
  • The year is not a leap year

Historical Event(s)

363
Emperor Julian marches back up the Tigris and burns his fleet of supply ships. During the withdrawal Roman forces suffering several attacks from the Persians.
1487
Battle of Stoke Field, the final engagement of the Wars of the Roses.
First Battle of Groix otherwise known as “Cornwallis’ Retreat”.
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.
Abraham Lincoln delivers his House Divided speech in Springfield, Illinois.
The Victoria Hall theatre panic in Sunderland, England kills 183 children.
The Ford Motor Company is incorporated.
A Communist government is installed in Lithuania.
World War II: Marshal Henri Philippe Pétain becomes Chief of State of Vichy France (Chef de l'État Français).
Soviet Space Program: Vostok 6 Mission – Cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova becomes the first woman in space.

Who were born on ?

1332
Isabella de Coucy, English princess (d. 1382)
George Gaylord Simpson, American paleontologist (d. 1984)
Jack Albertson, American actor (d. 1981)
Paulo César, Brazilian footballer
Jóhannes Helgason, Icelandic guitarist (Þeyr)
Steve Larmer, Canadian ice hockey player
Femi Kuti, Nigerian afrobeat musician
Scott Alexander, American screenwriter
Jasmine Leong, Chinese Malaysian singer
Chris Wingert, American footballer

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