Today is Thursday, June 16, the 168th day of 2016. There are 198 days left in the year.

Today’s birthdays: Author Joyce Carol Oates is 78. Songwriter Lamont Dozier is 75. Boxing Hall of Famer Roberto Duran is 65. Pop singer Gino Vannelli is 64. Actress Laurie Metcalf is 61. Actor Danny Burstein is 52. Rapper MC Ren is 47. Golfer Phil Mickelson is 46. Actor John Cho is 44.

In 1858, accepting the Illinois Republican Party’s nomination for the US Senate, Abraham Lincoln said the slavery issue had to be resolved, declaring, ‘‘A house divided against itself cannot stand.’’

In 1903, Ford Motor Co. was incorporated.

In 1911, IBM had its beginnings as the Computing-Tabulating-Recording Co. was incorporated.

In 1963, the world’s first female space traveler, Valentina Tereshkova, 26, was launched into orbit by the Soviet Union aboard Vostok 6; she spent 71 hours in flight.

In 1987, a jury in New York acquitted Bernhard Goetz of attempted murder in the subway shooting of four youths he said were going to rob him; however, Goetz was convicted of illegal weapons possession. (In 1996, a civil jury ordered Goetz to pay $43 million to one of the persons he’d shot.)

In 2011, Representative Anthony Weiner, Democrat of New York, announced his resignation from Congress, bowing to the furor caused by his sexually charged online dalliances with a former porn actress and other women.

Last year, real estate mogul Donald Trump launched his campaign for the Republican presidential nomination.