2010-06-15 18:47
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 16, 2010
Today is Wednesday, June 16, the 167th day of 2010. There are 198 days left in the year.
632 _ Origin of Persian [Yezdegird] Era 1858 _ Abraham Lincoln says ``A house divided against itself cannot stand" 1903 _ Ford Motors incorporates 1904 _ Bloomsday (date of events in James Joyce's Ulysses) 1947 _ Pravda denounces Marshall Plan 1949 _ Gas turbine-electric locomotive demonstrated, Erie, Pa. 1961 _ Soviet ballet dancer Rudolf Nureyev defects to West in Paris 1977 _ ``Beatlemania" opens on Broadway 1989 _ Four golfers shoot a hole-in-one on the same hole at the U.S. Open are made all on the sixth hole (Weaver, Wiebe, Pate and Price) 1991 _ Boris Yeltsin elected president of Russia |