FRIDAY, June 16, 2023

632-Origin of Persian [Yezdegird] Era

1567-Mary Queen of Scots thrown into Lochleven Castle prison

1671-Cossack rebel leader Stenka Razin tortured, executed in Moscow

1832-Battle of Kellogg's Grove, Ill

1858-Abraham Lincoln says "A house divided against itself cannot stand"

1864-Siege of Petersburg & Richmond begins

1883-1st baseball "Ladies' Day" (NY Gothams beat Cleve Spiders 5-2)

1933-National Industrial Recovery Act becomes law (later struck down)

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

1940-Commuinist govt installed in Lithuania

1963-Valentina Tereshkova becomes 1st woman in space, aboard Vostok 6

1970-Kenneth A Gibson elected 1st black mayor of Newark, NJ

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

1987-Subway gunman Bernhard Goetz acquitted on all but gun possession

charges after shooting 4 black youths who tried to rob him