MONDAY, JUNE 16, 2008

Today is Monday, June 16, the 168th day of 2008. There are 198 days left in the year.

632 _ Origin of Persian [Yezdegird] Era

1567 _ Mary Queen of Scots thrown into Lochleven Castle prison

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

1949 _ Gas turbine-electric locomotive demonstrated, Erie, Pa

1955 _ Pope Pius XII ex-communicated Argentine Pres Juan Peron

1963 _ Valentina Tereshkova becomes first woman in space aboard Vostok 6

1983 _ European Space Agency launches European Comm Satellite 1, Oscar 10