TUESDAY, JUNE 16, 2009

Today is Tuesday, June 16, the 167th day of 2009. There are 198 days left in the year.

632 _ Origin of Persian [Yezdegird] Era

1567 _ Queen Mary of Scotland 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

1933 _ U.S. Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) created

1967 _ 50,000 attend Monterey International Pop Festival

1977 _ ``Beatlemania" opens on Broadway

1984 _ Edwin Moses wins his 100th consecutive 400-meter hurdles race