Sunday June 16, 2024
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 dimanche.

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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, months, and days ago
  • months since then
  • is in the th week of the year (ISO 8601)
  • weeks ago
  • The year is a leap year

Historical Event(s)

War of Austrian Succession: Austria and Sardinia defeat a Franco-Spanish army at the Battle of Piacenza.
Foundation of Harrodsburg, Kentucky.
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.
The formation of the London Working Men’s Association gives rise to the Chartist Movement.
Irish author James Joyce begins a relationship with Nora Barnacle and subsequently uses the date to set the actions for his novel Ulysses; this date is now traditionally called “Bloomsday”.
A 772 gram stony meteorite strikes the earth near Kilbourn, Wisconsin damaging a barn.
A Communist government is installed in Lithuania.
Imre Nagy, Pál Maléter and other leaders of the 1956 Hungarian Uprising are executed.
Red Army Faction member Ulrike Meinhof is captured by police in Langenhagen.

Who were born on ?

Adam Smith, Scottish philosopher and economist (d. 1790)
Speedy O. Long, American politician (d. 2006)
William Forsyth Sharpe, American economist, Nobel laureate
Jim Dine, American artist
Eddie Levert, American singer (The O'Jays)
Ron LeFlore, American baseball player
Wally Joyner, American baseball player
Brad Gushue, Canadian curler
Ben Kweller, American singer and songwriter
Robert Rothbart, Bosnian/Israeli/Serbian basketball player

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