June 16

1867: Joseph Lister in Glasgow, Scotland, became the first surgeon to perform surgery under antiseptic conditions. 1903: Ford Motor Company was incorporated, and its ten employees began producing the company's first car, the Model A. 1911: Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company (C-T-R), the precursor to International Business Machines (IBM), was incorporated. 1930: Elmer Sperry, inventor of the gyrocompass, died. 1963: Lt. Valentina Tereshkova became the first Russian woman to go into the Earth orbit in her spaceship Vostok VI. 1977: German rocket pioneer Wernher von Braun died. 2000: Los Alamos National Laboratory in NM discovered that two computer hard drives containing nuclear secrets were missing due to lax security.