June 16

Track	Year	Event	Artist	Song	Album
1	1816	Lord Byron reads Fantasmagoriana to his four house guests at the Villa Diodati, Percy Shelley, Mary Shelley, Claire Clairmont, and John Polidori, and inspires his challenge that each guest write a ghost story, which culminated in Mary Shelley writing the novel Frankenstein, John Polidori writing the short story The Vampyre, and Byron writing the poem Darkness.	Cursive	Herald! Frankenstein	The Ugly Organ
2	1858	Abraham Lincoln delivers his House Divided speech in Springfield, Illinois.	Zola Jesus	I Can't Stand	Stridulum II
3	1871	The University Tests Act allows students to enter the Universities of Oxford, Cambridge and Durham without religious tests (except for those intending to study theology).	Parallel Pyres	Test	Parallel Pyres
4	1904	Irish author James Joyce begins a relationship with Nora Barnacle and subsequently uses the date to set the actions for his novel Ulysses; this date is now traditionally called "Bloomsday".	The Cansecos	In Bloom	The Cansecos
5	1967	The Monterey Pop Festival begins	Eric Burdon & the Animals	Monterey	Monterey

(Historical facts about June 16 are from Wikipedia.)