THURSDAY, JUNE 16, 2011

Today is Thursday, June 16, the 167th day of 2011. 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

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

1947 ― Pravda denounces Marshall Plan

1955 ― Pope Pius XII ex-communicated Argentine President Juan Peron

1961 ― Soviet ballet dancer Rudolf Nureyev defects to West in Paris

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