What day of the week was June 16, 1897?

The day of the week June 16th, 1897 fell on was a Wednesday.

Elaine Hammerstein the American actress (d. 1948) was born on 16 June in 1897. As was Georg Wittig the German chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1987) .

A treaty annexing the Republic of Hawaii to the United States is signed; the Republic would not be dissolved until a year later.