Right now is Monday, June 16, the 167th day of 2025. There are 198 days left within the yr.
Right now in historical past:
On June 16, 1963, the world’s first feminine area traveler, Valentina Tereshkova, 26, was launched into orbit by the Soviet Union aboard Vostok 6. Tereshkova spent 71 hours in flight, circling the Earth 48 occasions earlier than returning safely.
Additionally on this date:
In 1858, accepting the Illinois Republican Get together’s nomination for the U.S. Senate, Abraham Lincoln stated the problem of slavery in the USA needed to be resolved, declaring, “a home divided in opposition to itself can not stand.”
In 1903, the Ford Motor Firm was integrated in Detroit, Michigan.
In 1976, hundreds of Black college students in Johannesburg’s Soweto township demonstrated in opposition to the imposition of the Dutch-based Afrikaans language in faculties; police opened fireplace on the scholars, killing no less than 176 and as many as 700.
In 1978, President Jimmy Carter and Panamanian chief Omar Torrijos signed the devices of ratification for the Panama Canal treaties throughout a ceremony in Panama Metropolis.
In 2015, actual property mogul Donald Trump launched his profitable marketing campaign for the presidency of the USA with a speech at Trump Tower in Manhattan.
In 2016, Walt Disney Co. opened Shanghai Disneyland, its first theme park in mainland China.
In 2022, witnesses testified to the Jan. 6 committee that Donald Trump’s closest advisers considered his last-ditch efforts to stress Vice President Mike Pence to reject the tally of state electors and overturn the 2020 election as “nuts,” “loopy” and even more likely to incite riots.
Right now’s Birthdays:
- Writer Joyce Carol Oates is 87.
- Nation singer Billy “Crash” Craddock is 86.
- R&B singer Eddie Levert is 83.
- Boxing Corridor of Famer Roberto Durán is 74.
- Pop singer Gino Vannelli is 73.
- Actor Laurie Metcalf is 70.
- Rapper MC Ren is 56.
- Golfer Phil Mickelson is 55.
- Actor John Cho is 53.
- Actor Daniel Brühl is 47.
- Actor Missy Peregrym is 43.
- Singer Diana DeGarmo (TV: “American Idol”) is 38.
- NFL large receiver Justin Jefferson is 26.
- Tennis participant Bianca Andreescu is 25.