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, 28,684,800 minutes 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
- 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.
- 1769 –Father Junipero Serra founds California’s first mission, Mission San Diego de Alcalá. Over the following decades, it evolves into the city of San Diego.
- 1782 –First performance of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s opera Die Entführung aus dem Serail.
- 1861 –American Civil War: at the order of President Abraham Lincoln, Union troops begin a 25 mile march into Virginia for what will become The First Battle of Bull Run, the first major land battle of the war.
- 1927 –Augusto César Sandino leads a raid on U.S. Marines and Nicaraguan Guardia Nacional that had been sent to apprehend him in the village of Ocotal, but is repulsed by one of the first dive-bombing attacks in history.
- 1941 –Joe DiMaggio hits safely for the 56th consecutive game, a streak that still stands as a MLB record.
- 1951 –The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger is published for the first time by Little, Brown and Company.
- 1965 –The Mont Blanc Tunnel linking France and Italy opens.
- 1979 –Iraqi President Hasan al-Bakr resigns and is replaced by Saddam Hussein.
- 1994 –Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 collides with Jupiter. Impacts continue until July 22.
Who were born on July 16?
- 1858 –Eugène Ysaÿe, Belgian violinist (d. 1931)
- 1888 –Shoeless Joe Jackson, American baseball player (d. 1951)
- 1896 –Trygve Lie, Norwegian diplomat, Secretary-General of the United Nations (d. 1968)
- 1903 –Carmen Lombardo, Canadian singer and composer (d. 1971)
- 1920 –Anatole Broyard, American literary critic and essayist (d. 1990)
- 1920 –Anwar Hussain, Pakistani cricketer (d. 2002)
- 1973 –Tim Ryan, American politician
- 1976 –Anna Smashnova, Israeli tennis player
- 1980 –Adam Scott, Australian golfer
- 1984 –Katrina Kaif, Indian actress
Who died on July 16?
- 1594 –Thomas Kyd, English playwright (b. 1558)
- 1691 –François-Michel le Tellier, Marquis de Louvois, French war minister (b. 1641)
- 1960 –Albert Kesselring, German field marshal (b. 1881)
- 1982 –Patrick Dewaere, French actor (b. 1947)
- 1991 –Robert Motherwell, American painter (b. 1915)
- 1996 –John Panozzo, American drummer (Styx) (b. 1948)
- 1999 –Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy, wife of John F. Kennedy, Jr. (b. 1966)
- 2003 –Carol Shields, American-born Canadian novelist (b. 1935)
- 2005 –Pietro Consagra, Italian sculptor (b. 1920)
- 2011 –Forrest Blue, American football player (b. 1944)
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