Daily Almanac: June 16, 2023

Sunrise/Sunset

RISE: 6:16 a.m.
SET: 9:20 p.m.

High/Low Temperatures:

HIGH: 78 °F
LOW: 54 °F

Today is…

• Fresh Veggies Day
• National Fudge Day
• World Sea Turtle Day

What Happened On This Day:

• 2010 The world’s first country-wide total tobacco ban goes into effect. Bhutan banned the cultivation, harvesting, production, and sale of tobacco and tobacco products. It is still legal in the South Asian country to smoke in a private setting, but obtaining tobacco products legally is close to impossible.
• 1963 Valentina Tereshkova becomes the first woman in space. The Soviet cosmonaut completed 48 orbits on board the spaceship “Vostok 6” before returning safely to Earth. The former textile worker was declared “Hero of the Soviet Union” and received the United Nations Gold Medal of Peace.
• 1960 Alfred Hitchcock’s film Psycho is premiered. The horror-thriller starring Anthony Perkins and Vera Miles has become one of the classics of the genre. The shower scene is one of the best-known murder scenes in the history of film.

Births On This Day:

• 1971 Tupac Shakur

American rapper, producer, actor
• 1723 Adam Smith

Scottish philosopher, economist

Deaths On This Day:

• 1977 Wernher von Braun

German physicist, engineer

• 1722 John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough

English general, politician