TODAY IN HISTORY

On June 16, 1858, accepting the Illinois Republican Party’s nomination for the U.S. 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 began as the Computing-Tabulating-Recording Co., incorporated

in New York State.

In 1963, the world’s first female space traveler, Valentina Tereshkova, 26, was launched into orbit by the Soviet Union.

In 1970, Kenneth A. Gibson of Newark, New Jersey, became the first black politician elected mayor of a major Northeast city.

In 1996, Russian voters went to the polls in their first independent presidential election; the result was a runoff between President Boris Yeltsin and Communist challenger Gennady Zyuganov.