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 197th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 168 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Wednesday.
Under the Julian calendar, this day is July 3, 2025 – a Wednesday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?
When this day started, 486,840 hours 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 ‘hectaenneacontaheptagon’ day.
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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 216 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 4,590 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.
- 1809 –The city of La Paz, in what is today Bolivia, declares its independence from the Spanish Crown during the La Paz revolution and forms the Junta Tuitiva, the first independent government in Spanish America, led by Pedro Domingo Murillo.
- 1910 –John Robertson Duigan makes the first flight of the Duigan pusher biplane, the first aircraft built in Australia.
- 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.
- 1931 –Emperor Haile Selassie I signs the first constitution of Ethiopia.
- 1942 –Holocaust: Vel‘ d'Hiv Roundup (Rafle du Vel’d'Hiv): the government of Vichy France orders the mass arrest of 13,152 Jews who are held at the Winter Velodrome in Paris before deportation to Auschwitz.
- 1948 –Following token resistance, the city of Nazareth, revered by Christians as the hometown of Jesus, capitulates to Israeli troops during Operation Dekel in the 1948 Arab-Israeli War.
- 1956 –Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus closes its very last “Big Tent” show in Pittsburgh, due to changing economics all subsequent circus shows will be held in arenas.
- 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.
- 1990 –The Luzon Earthquake strikes in Benguet, Pangasinan, Nueva Ecija, La Union, Aurora, Bataan, Zambales and Tarlac, Philippines, with an intensity of 7.7.
Who were born on July 16?
- 1918 –Bayani Casimiro, Filipino dancer and actor (d. 1989)
- 1919 –Hermine Braunsteiner, Austrian concentration and extermination camp guard (d. 1999)
- 1923 –Chris Argyris, American educator
- 1924 –Bess Myerson, American beauty queen
- 1941 –Mišo Kovač, Croatian singer
- 1950 –Pierre Paradis, Quebec politician
- 1964 –Phil Hellmuth, American poker player
- 1969 –Kathryn Harby-Williams, Australian netballer
- 1974 –Chris Pontius, American actor and Jackass cast member
- 1991 –Andros Townsend, English footballer
Who died on July 16?
- 1594 –Thomas Kyd, English playwright (b. 1558)
- 1915 –Ellen White, American religious figure (b. 1827)
- 1916 –Ilya Ilyich Mechnikov, Russian microbiologist, Nobel laureate (b. 1845)
- 1917 –Philipp Scharwenka, German composer (b. 1847)
- 1960 –Albert Kesselring, German field marshal (b. 1881)
- 1960 –John P. Marquand, American novelist (b. 1893)
- 2001 –Morris, Belgian cartoonist (b. 1923)
- 2003 –Carol Shields, American-born Canadian novelist (b. 1935)
- 2007 –Caterina Bueno, Italian singer and folk music historian (b. 1943)
- 2011 –Forrest Blue, American football player (b. 1944)
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