Today is Tuesday, June 17, the 168th day of 2025 with 197 to follow.
The moon is waning. Morning stars are Mars, Neptune, Saturn and Venus. Evening stars are Jupiter and Mars.
Those born on this date are under the sign of Gemini. They include John Wesley, the founder of Methodism, in 1703; musician Igor Stravinsky in 1882; artist M.C. Escher in 1898; writer John Hersey in 1914; filmmaker Ken Loach in 1936 (age 89); Egyptian Nobel Peace Prize laureate/former Vice President Mohamed ElBaradei in 1942 (age 83); former U.S. House Speaker Newt Gingrich in 1943 (age 82); musician Barry Manilow in 1943 (age 82); musician George S. Clinton in 1947 (age 78); comedian/actor Joe Piscopo in 1951 (age 74); actor Mark Linn-Baker in 1954 (age 71); actor Jon Gries in 1957 (age 68); musician Jello Biafra (Dead Kennedys) in 1958 (age 67); filmmaker Bobby Farrelly in 1958 (age 67); actor Thomas Haden Church in 1960 (age 65); actor Greg Kinnear in 1963 (age 62); U.S. Olympic Hall of Fame speed skater Dan Jansen in 1965 (age 60); actor Jason Patric in 1966 (age 59); fashion designer Tory Burch in 1966 (age 59); Burundian President Évariste Ndayishimiye in 1968 (age 57); musician Kevin Thornton (Color Me Badd) in 1969 (age 56); actor Will Forte in 1970 (age 55); musician Paulina Rubio in 1971 (age 54); tennis star Venus Williams in 1980 (age 45); actor Jodie Whittaker in 1982 (age 43); actor Arthur Darvill in 1982 (age 43); actor Manish Dayal in 1983 (age 42); musician Mickey Guyton in 1983 (age 42); musician Kendrick Lamar in 1987 (age 38); actor KJ Apa in 1997 (age 28); actor Odessa A'zion in 2000 (age 25).
On this date in history:
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In 1885, the Statue of Liberty, a gift from France to the United States, arrived in New York Harbor.
In 1967, China announced it successfully tested a hydrogen bomb.
In 1972, the Watergate scandal began with the arrest of five burglars inside Democratic National Committee headquarters at the Watergate complex in Washington.
In 1982, Argentina's President Leopoldo Galtieri resigned in response to Britain's victory in the Falkland Islands war.
In 1991, a coroner in Kentucky exhumed the remains of the 12th U.S. president, Zachary Taylor, to prove or disprove rumors he was killed by arsenic poisoning. The testing proved he wasn't.
In 1994, former NFL player O.J. Simpson led California Highway Patrol on a low-speed chase in his white Bronco. The 90-minute televised chase occurred shortly after he was charged for the murder of his ex-wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and her friend, Ronald Goldman.
In 2011, Ayman al-Zawahiri, an Egyptian surgeon and co-founder of al-Qaida, moved up to assume leadership of the terrorist network six weeks after U.S. forces killed Osama bin Laden.
In 2015, Dylann Roof killed nine people at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, S.C., in a mass shooting. He was sentenced to death in January 2017.
In 2017, the USS Fitzgerald Navy destroyer collided with a container ship in the Pacific off the coast of Japan, killing seven U.S. sailors.
In 2019, Mohamed Morsi, who became Egypt's first democratically elected president shortly after the Arab Spring only to be deposed a year later, fainted and died during his trial on espionage charges.
In 2021, President Joe Biden signed a law formally making Juneteenth a federal holiday, marking the end of slavery in the United States.
A thought for the day: "Everyone in society should be a role model, not only for their own self-respect, but for respect from others." -- Baseball legend Barry Bonds
