What happened this day in history July 16

What are the important events that happened on July 16? Here are historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.

July 16: Facts & Myths About This Day

July 16 is the 198th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 168 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Tuesday.

Under the Julian calendar, this day is July 3, 2024 – a Tuesday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?

When this day started, 1,721,088,000 seconds has elapsed since midnight of January 1, 1970 – the Unix epoch.

Strange as it may, if we name this day after a polygon then it will be called ‘hectaenneacontaoctagon’ day.

Cancer is the zodiac sign of a person born on this day. Ruby is the modern birthstone for this month. Ruby is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.

According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 197 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.

The ancient Maya civilization believes that the end of the world will happen on December 21, 2012. There are now 4,225 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.

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July 16 Historical Events

  • 622
    The beginning of the Islamic calendar.
  • 1212
    Battle of Las Navas de Tolosa: after Pope Innocent III calls European knights to a crusade, forces of Kings Alfonso VIII of Castile, Sancho VII of Navarre, Pedro II of Aragon and Afonso II of Portugal defeat those of the Berber Muslim leader Almohad, thus marking a significant turning point in the Reconquista and in the medieval history of Spain.
  • 1377
    Coronation of Richard II of England.
  • 1915
    Henry James becomes a British citizen, to highlight his commitment to England during the first World War.
  • 1945
    World War II: the leaders of the three Allied nations, Winston Churchill, Harry S. Truman and Joseph Stalin, meet in the German city of Potsdam to decide the future of a defeated Germany.
  • 1951
    The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger is published for the first time by Little, Brown and Company.
  • 1960
    USS George Washington a modified Skipjack class submarine successfully test fires the first ballistic missile while submerged.
  • 1965
    The Mont Blanc Tunnel linking France and Italy opens.
  • 1969
    Apollo program: Apollo 11, the first manned space mission to land on the Moon, is launched from the Kennedy Space Center at Cape Canaveral, Florida.
  • 2004
    Millennium Park, considered Chicago’s first and most ambitious early 21st century architectural project, is opened to the public by Mayor Richard M. Daley.

Who were born on July 16?

  • 1896
    Otmar Freiherr von Verschuer, German biologist and eugenicist (d. 1969)
  • 1907
    Orville Redenbacher, American farmer and businessman (d. 1995)
  • 1911
    Ginger Rogers, American actress and dancer (d. 1995)
  • 1936
    Buddy Merrill, American musician (The Lawrence Welk Show)
  • 1939
    Corin Redgrave, English actor and political activist (d. 2010)
  • 1943
    Jimmy Johnson, American football coach
  • 1971
    Ed Kowalczyk, American singer (Live)
  • 1976
    Carlos Humberto Paredes, Paraguyan footballer
  • 1979
    Jayma Mays, American actress
  • 1980
    Adam Scott, Australian golfer

Who died on July 16?

  • 1216
    Pope Innocent III (b. 1160 or 1161)
  • 1557
    Anne of Cleves, German-born fourth wife of King Henry VIII of England (b. 1515)
  • 1594
    Thomas Kyd, English playwright (b. 1558)
  • 1729
    Johann David Heinichen, German composer (b. 1683)
  • 1831
    Louis Alexandre Andrault de Langeron, Russian general (b. 1763)
  • 1868
    Dimitri Pisarev, Russian writer and social critic (b. 1840)
  • 1979
    Alfred Deller, English countertenor (b. 1912)
  • 1981
    Harry Chapin, American singer-songwriter (b. 1942)
  • 1985
    Heinrich Böll, German writer, Nobel laureate (b. 1917)
  • 1992
    Buck Buchanan, American football player (b. 1940)

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