Today is Tuesday, June 16, the 167th day of 2015. 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
1961 ― Soviet ballet dancer Rudolf Nureyev defects to West in Paris
1977 ― Leonid Brezhnev named president of USSR
1977 ― “Beatlemania” opens on Broadway
1989 ― “Ghostbusters II” premiers
1989 ― Four golfers shoot a hole-in-one on the same hole at the U.S. Open are made all on the 6th hole (Weaver, Wiebe, Pate and Price). Only 17 hole-in-ones recorded since the U.S. open began, today four more
1991 ― Boris Yeltsin elected president of Russia