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This Date in History (June 16th)

1858 – Abraham Lincoln argued that “a house divided against itself cannot stand” in a speech to the state Repbulican convention in Springfield, Ill., after he was nominated for the U.S. Senate.

1987 – A jury in New York acquitted Bernhard Goetz of attempted murder in the subway shooting of four young blacks he said were going to rob him; he was convicted of illegal weapons possession.

1992 – Former Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger was indicted on felony charges in the Iran-Contra affair. (He was later pardoned by President George H. W. Bush.)

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

2000 – Federal regulators approved the merger of Bell Atlantic and GTE Corp., creating the nation’s largest local phone company, Verizon.