June 16th

June 16 is the 168th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. If the ancient Mayans were correct, there are 188 days remaining until the end of time.

1755 British capture Fort Beausejour and expel Acadians. They turn out okay once they adapt their recipes to local ingredients.

1836 London Working Men's Association forms.

1858 Abraham Lincoln says "A house divided against itself cannot stand." Hmmm. Tall, skinny freshman senator from Illinois who makes a compelling speeches. . .

1880 Salvation Army forms in London to prey on unsuspecting drunks and other misfortunate people.

1904 James Joyce begins courting Nora Barnacle and writes down every thing that transpires during the day in a giant run on sentence that runs about 1,000 pages. I must admit that I have never gotten past page 23.

1929 Otto E Funk, 62, ends marathon walk (New York to SF, 4165 miles in 183 days).  He doesn't get a prize or anything.

1960 "Psycho" opens in New York.

1961 Rudolf Nuryev defects, but is definitely NOT defective.

1963 Also leaving the USSR, albeit temporarily, Valentina Tereshkova is 1st woman in space aboard Vostok 6.

1992 Longest salami is 68'9 and 25 circumference, weighed 1,492lbs/5oz in Flekkefjord, Norway.

2008 Massachusetts’ Gloucester High School disclose why the teen pregnancy rate at their school more than quadrupled over the past year. The dramatic increase is due, in part, to a pact among 17 girls from the school, none older than 16, who vowed to get pregnant and raise their children together.

1973 Adam Smith, gay Scottish economist

1894 Norman Kerry [Arnold Kaiser], probably gay, extremely popular US silent film leading man who befriended Valentino in 1916 and urged him to go to Hollywood. Kerry helped Valentino financially when he moved west.

1930 Vilmos Zsigmond, maybe gay Hungarian-born US cinematographer/Academy Award for Close Encounters of the Third Kind 

1948 Bjorn Sundquist, maybe gay Norse actor 

1957 Ian Buchanan, maybe gay Scottish actor 

1962 Arnold Vosloo, South African actor 

1967 Bruno Putzulu, gay French comedian/actor 

1970 Clifton Collins Jr., maybe gay US actor 

1971 Tupac Shakur, US rapper/murder victim 

1971 J. Keith van Straaten, maybe gay US comedian/actor 

1972 John Cho, Korean-born US actor 

1973 Eddie Cibrian, US actor 

1975 Frederick Koehler, US actor 

1978 Daniel Brühl, Spanish/German actor 

1978 Michel Altieri, French/Italian actor/model/singer 

1982 Marshall Cook, maybe gay US actor/director 

1959 George Reeves, US actor (Superman, Gone with the Wind), gets stopped by a speeding bullet.

1979 Nicholas Ray, bisexual US film director (Rebel Without a Cause), finds himself in a lonely place.

2000 Peter McWilliams, gay US cannabis activist/writer (Ain't Nobody's Business If I Do)/martyr, is made an example of