Today is Saturday, June 16, the 168th day of 2012. 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)

1917 ― First Congress of Soviets convene in Russia

1940 ― Communist government installed in Lithuania

1947 ― First network news-Dumont's ``News from Washington"

1963 ― Valentina Tereshkova becomes first woman in space, aboard Vostok 6

1976 ― Student uprisings begin in Soweto, South Africa (Soweto Day)

1991 ― Boris Yeltsin elected president of Russia