| July 16 is the 197th day (198th in leap years) of the year in the
Gregorian Calendar, with 168 days remaining.
Events
- 622 - Beginning of the Islamic
calendar.
- 1769 - Father Junipero Serra
founds Mission San Diego de Alcalá, the
first mission in California. The mission later evolves into the city of
San Diego.
- 1779 - American Revolutionary War: United
States forces led by General Anthony Wayne capture Stony Point, New York
from British troops.
- 1782 - First performance of Mozart's opera
The Abduction from the Seraglio.
- 1783 - Grants of land in Canada to American
loyalists announced.
- 1790 - The signing of the Residence Bill establishes a site along the Potomac
River as the District of Columbia (seat of government) of the United
States (see Washington, DC).
- 1862 - American Civil
War: David G. Farragut becomes the first United States Navy rear admiral.
- 1880 - First woman licensed to practice medicine in Canada - Dr. Emily Howard Stowe.
- 1914 - Hellenic
Holocaust: According to the German Consul Kuchhoff: "The entire
Greek population of Sinope and
the coastal region of the county of Kastanome has been exiled. Exile and extermination in Turkish are the same, for whoever is not murdered, will die
from hunger or illness."
- 1918 - Russian
Revolution: At Ekaterinburg, Bolsheviks execute Czar Nicholas II of
Russia and his family.
- 1942 - Holocaust: On order from the
Vichy France government headed by Pierre Laval, French police officers round-up 13,000-20,000 Jews and imprison them in the Winter Velodrome.
- 1945 - Manhattan
Project: The Atomic Age begins when the United States successfully detonates a plutonium-based
test nuclear weapon at the Trinity site near Alamogordo, New
Mexico.
- 1951 - The novel Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger was
published.
- 1951 - King Leopold III of Belgium abdicates.
- 1957 - United States
Marine Major John Glenn flies a F8U supersonic jet from California to New York in 3 hours, 23 minutes and 8 seconds setting a new transcontinental speed record.
- 1969 - Apollo program:
Apollo 11 launches off from Cape Kennedy, Florida with the goal to become the first manned space mission to land on the moon.
- 1973 - Watergate
Scandal: Former White House aide Alexander P. Butterfield informs the United States Senate committee investigating scandal that President Richard Nixon had secretly recorded potentially incriminating conversations.
- 1979 - Iraqi President Hasan al-Bakr resigns and Saddam Hussein replaces him.
- 1990 - In the Philippines, an
earthquake measuring 7.7 on the Richter Scale kills over 1600.
- 1994 - The planet Jupiter is hit by fragments of the Shoemaker-Levy 9 comet.
- 1994 - The civil war in Rwanda comes to an end.
- 1999 - Off the coast of Martha's Vineyard, a plane piloted by John F. Kennedy Jr. crashes with his wife Carolyn Bessette Kennedy and her sister Lauren Bessette on board. All three are killed in the crash.
- 2001 - The FBI arrests Dmitry Sklyarov at a convention in Las Vegas, Nevada for violating a provision of the DMCA.
- 2002 - Simon &
Garfunkel release the album Live In New
York City, 1967, a live recording of their January 22, 1967 concert at Philharmonic
Hall.
- 2003 - An Australian research team led by Graham Giles of The Cancer Council published a medical
study which concluded that frequent masturbation by males may help prevent
the development of prostate cancer, marking the almost complete
rehabilitation of the sexual practice from a dangerous health risk to a beneficial preventative health measure.
- 2003 - The Corsicans rejected a
referendum for increased autonomy from France by a very thin majority: 50.98 percent
against, and 49.02 percent for.
- 2004 - Millennium Park,
considered the first and most ambitious architectural project in the early 21st
century for Chicago, is opened to the public by Mayor of Chicago Richard M.
Daley.
- 2004 - Barclays Bank freezes the bank accounts of the British National Party.
Births
- 1486 - Andrea del Sarto,
painter (d. 1530)
- 1821 - Mary Baker Eddy,
founded Christian Science (d. 1910)
- 1834 - Franz Adolf Lüderitz, salesman and politician (d. 1886)
- 1872 - Roald Amundsen,
explorer, discovered South Pole (d. 1928)
- 1888 - Percy Kilbride, actor
(Pa Kettle) (d. 1964)
- 1889 - Joe Jackson, American
baseball player (d. 1951)
- 1896 - Trygve Lie, the first United Nations Secretary General (d.
1968)
- 1902 - Georg Schwarz, writer (d. 1991)
- 1903 - Carmen Lombardo -
singer, saxophonist, composer, arranger (d. 1971)
- 1907 - Dr. Frances Horwich, "Miss Francis" from Ding Dong School (d. 2001)
- 1907 - Barbara Stanwyck, actress d. 1990
- 1911 - Ginger Rogers, actress
and dancer (d. 1995)
- 1913 - Peter van Eyck, actor (d. 1969)
- 1919 - Choi Kyuha, President of South
Korea
- 1924 - Bess Myerson, former
Miss America, television
personality
- 1925 - Cal Tjader, musician (d.
1982)
- 1946 - Ron Yary, Pro Football Hall of Famer
- 1948 - Rubén Blades, actor,
musician, politician
- 1948 - Pinchas Zukerman, Israeli violinist
- 1952 - Stewart Copeland,
musician
- 1956 - Tony Kushner,
playwright
- 1959 - Gary Anderson, American football player
- 1963 - Phoebe Cates, actress
- 1963 - Fatboy Slim, musician
- 1963 - Srečko Katanec, Slovenian football player, coach
- 1964 - Phil Hellmuth,
professional poker player
- 1964 - Miguel Induráin, Spanish cyclist
- 1968 - Barry Sanders, Pro Football Hall of Famer
- 1971 - Corey Feldman, Actor
Deaths
- 1770 - Francis Cotes, English
painter
- 1953 - Hilaire Belloc, writer
and journalist
- 1979 - Alfred Deller, singer, early modern countertenor
- 1981 - Harry Chapin, singer and
songwriter
- 1989 - Herbert von
Karajan, Austrian conductor (b. 1908)
- 1995 - Stephen Spender,
poet (b. 1909)
- 1999 - John F. Kennedy
Jr.
- 2002 - John Cocke, key figure in the
development of RISC architecture
- 2003 - Celia Cruz, Cuban salsa musician
- 2003 - Carol Shields, Canadian author
Holidays and observances
- Botswana - President's Day (2nd day)
- Catholic - Feast of Our Lady of Mount
Carmel
External links
July 15 - July 17 - June 16 - August 16 -- listing of all days
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