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Events on the 16th of July in history

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16 Jul 0390 Brennus and Gauls defeat Romans at Allia
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16 Jul 0463 Start of Lunar Cycle of Hilarius
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16 Jul 0622 Moslem Era begins-Mahomet begins flight from Mecca to Medina (Hejira)
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16 Jul 0622 The beginning of the Islamic calendar.
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16 Jul 0622 Origin of the Islamic Era (Muharram 1, 1 AH)
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16 Jul 1054 Michael Caerularius excommunicated of Constantinople
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16 Jul 1054 Three Roman legates break relations between Western and Eastern Christian Churches through the act of placing an invalidly-issued Papal bull of Excommunication on the altar of Hagia Sophia during Saturday afternoon divine liturgy. Historians frequently describe the event as the start of the East–West Schism.
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16 Jul 1099 Crusaders herd Jews of Jerusalem into a synagogue and set it afire
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16 Jul 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, Peter 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.
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16 Jul 1212 Battle of Las Navas de Tolosa; end of Moslem power in Spain
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16 Jul 1251 The Virgin Mary gives Simon Stork a haircut (legend)
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16 Jul 1338 German monarch signs Treaty of Rense
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16 Jul 1377 Coronation of Richard II of England.
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16 Jul 1429 Army entered Reims
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16 Jul 1429 Joan of Arc leads French army in Battle of Orleans
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16 Jul 1439 Kissing is banned in England (to stop germs from spreading)
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16 Jul 1439 Kissing is banned in England
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16 Jul 1519 Public debate between Martin Luther and Theologist John Eck
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16 Jul 1548 La Paz, Bolivia is founded
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16 Jul 1573 Alva demands submission of Zealand / Holland
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16 Jul 1618 Captain John Gilbert patents 1st dredger in Britain
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16 Jul 1659 Princess Henriette C of Orange-Nassau weds monarch Johan George II
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16 Jul 1661 1st banknotes in Europe were issued by Bank of Stockholm
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16 Jul 1661 The first banknotes in Europe are issued by the Swedish bank Stockholms Banco.
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16 Jul 1683 Turkish troops under Kara Mustafa attain Vienna
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16 Jul 1683 Manchu Qing Dynasty naval forces under traitorous commander Shi Lang defeat the Kingdom of Tungning in the Battle of Penghu near the Pescadores Islands.
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16 Jul 1769 Father Junipero Serra founds Mission San Diego, 1st mission in California
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16 Jul 1769 Father Junípero Serra founds California's first mission, Mission San Diego de Alcalá. Over the following decades, it evolves into the city of San Diego, California.
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16 Jul 1775 John Adams graduates Harvard
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16 Jul 1779 American Revolutionary War: Light infantry of the Continental Army seize a fortified British Army position in a midnight bayonet attack at the Battle of Stony Point.
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16 Jul 1782 First performance of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's opera Die Entführung aus dem Serail.
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16 Jul 1790 The District of Columbia is established as the capital of the United States after signature of the Residence Act.
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16 Jul 1790 Congress establishes District of Columbia
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16 Jul 1798 US Public Health Service established & US Marine Hospital authorized
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16 Jul 1801 Pope Pius VII and 1st consul Napoleon sign concord
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16 Jul 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.
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16 Jul 1845 New York Yacht Club holds its 1st regatta
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16 Jul 1849 Antonio María Claret y Clará founded the Congregation of the Missionary Sons of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, popularly known as the Claretians in Vic, in the province of Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain.
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16 Jul 1856 Statue of Laurens Jansz Coster unveiled in Haarlem
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16 Jul 1857 Sir Henry Havelock arrives at Battle of Cawnpore
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16 Jul 1861 Battle of Bull Run, the 1st major battle of the Civil War, is fought
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16 Jul 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.
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16 Jul 1862 American Civil War: David Farragut is promoted to rear admiral, becoming the first officer in United States Navy to hold an admiral rank.
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16 Jul 1862 David G Farragut became 1st rear admiral in US Navy
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16 Jul 1863 Utrecht-Swells railway opens
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16 Jul 1867 Amstel Hotel, "the dignified old lady" opens in Amsterdam
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16 Jul 1867 D R Averill patents ready-mixed paint
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16 Jul 1867 Joseph Monier patents reinforced concrete
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16 Jul 1893 A Charlois discovers asteroid #371 Bohemia
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16 Jul 1894 Many negro miners in Alabama killed by striking white miners
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16 Jul 1894 Treaty of Aoki-Kimberley signed between Japan & England
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16 Jul 1902 John McGraw named manager of New York Giants
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16 Jul 1904 Islands of the Manu'a group (Samoa) ceded to US by their chiefs
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16 Jul 1909 Detroit and Washington play longest scoreless game in AL history-18 innings
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16 Jul 1909 Persian Constitutional Revolution: Mohammad Ali Shah Qajar is forced out as Shah of Persia and is replaced by his son Ahmad Shah Qajar.
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16 Jul 1909 AL's longest scoreless game, Senators & Tigers 0-0 in 18
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16 Jul 1910 John Robertson Duigan makes the first flight of the Duigan pusher biplane, the first aircraft built in Australia.
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16 Jul 1910 J Helffrich discovers asteroid #702 Alauda
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16 Jul 1912 Naval torpedo launched from an airplane patented by B.A. Fiske
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16 Jul 1914 Socialist conference in Brussel (Kautsky, Trotski & Rosa Luxemburg)
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16 Jul 1915 Henry James becomes a British citizen, to highlight his commitment to Britain during the first World War.
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16 Jul 1915 First Order of the Arrow ceremony takes place and the Order of the Arrow is founded.
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16 Jul 1920 15th Davis Cup: USA beats Australasia in Auckland (5-0)
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16 Jul 1920 China joins the League of Nations
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16 Jul 1920 Gen Amos Fries appointed 1st US army chemical warfare chief
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16 Jul 1920 Ruth sets season home run record with 30 en route to 54
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16 Jul 1920 US wins Davis Cup sweeping Australia in 5 straight matches
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16 Jul 1924 Conference over German recovery payments begins in London
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16 Jul 1924 New York Giants George Kelly is 1st to hit HRs in 6 cons games
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16 Jul 1926 Jaspar government asks authority to save Belgian franc
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16 Jul 1926 National Geographic takes 1st natural-color undersea photos
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16 Jul 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.
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16 Jul 1927 Augusto Sandino begins 5
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16 Jul 1931 Emperor Haile Selassie I signs the first constitution of Ethiopia.
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16 Jul 1934 Bradman scores 140 Aust vs. Yorkshire, 120 mins, 22 fours 2 sixes
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16 Jul 1934 K Reinmuth discovers asteroid #1334 Lundmarka
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16 Jul 1935 The world's first parking meter is installed in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.
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16 Jul 1935 1st automatic parking meter in US installed, Oklahoma City, Ok
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16 Jul 1936 1st x-ray photo of arterial circulation, Rochester, New York
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16 Jul 1936 K Reinmuth discovers asteroids #1395 Aribeda & #1402 Eri
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16 Jul 1936 NY Giants are 10
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16 Jul 1938 21st PGA Championship: Paul Runyan at Shawnee Country Club - Shawnee-on-Del, Pennsylvania
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16 Jul 1941 Joe DiMaggio hits safely for the 56th consecutive game, a streak that still stands as a MLB record.
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16 Jul 1941 100
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16 Jul 1941 Joe Dimaggio goes 3 for 4, hitting in his 56th straight game
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16 Jul 1942 French police arrest 13,152 Jews in Paris
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16 Jul 1942 Jews transported from Holland to extermination camp
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16 Jul 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.
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16 Jul 1944 Dodgers score 8 unearned runs against Braves to win 8-5 and break their 16-game losing streak, they will lose another 5 in a row
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16 Jul 1945 Cruiser Indianapolis leaves SF with atom bomb
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16 Jul 1945 World War II: The heavy cruiser USS Indianapolis leaves San Francisco with parts for the atomic bomb "Little Boy" bound for Tinian Island.
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16 Jul 1945 Manhattan Project: The Atomic Age begins when the United States successfully detonates a plutonium-based test nuclear weapon near Alamogordo, New Mexico.
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16 Jul 1945 1st atomic bomb detonated, Trinity Site, Alamogordo, New Mexico
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16 Jul 1946 US court martials 46 SS to death (Battle of Bulge crimes) in Dachau
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16 Jul 1946 Attempt made to recall Mayor Lapham (1st time in SF history)
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16 Jul 1947 Bobo Newsom wins 200th game, 1st as a Yankee andYanks 18th straight In nightcap Vic Rashi extends streak to 19
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16 Jul 1947 Bobo Newsom wins 200th game, 1st as a Yankee & Yanks 18th straight
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16 Jul 1948 Eddie Sawyer replaces Ben Chapman in Philadelphia, New York Giants Leo Durocher replaces Mel Ott and Burt Shotton replaces Durocher as Dodger manager
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16 Jul 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.
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16 Jul 1948 The storming of the cockpit of the Miss Macao passenger seaplane, operated by a subsidiary of the Cathay Pacific Airways, marks the first aircraft hijacking of a commercial plane.
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16 Jul 1948 Leo Durocher changes managership from Dodgers to Giants
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16 Jul 1950 Chaplain–Medic massacre: American POWs were massacred by North Korean Army.
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16 Jul 1950 Single day 16 team HR record set at 37 (NL-25, AL-12)
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16 Jul 1950 Uruguay beats Brazil 2-1 for soccer's 4th World Cup in Rio de Janeiro
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16 Jul 1951 1st Dutchman to win Tour de France (Wim Van Est)
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16 Jul 1951 King Leopold III, of Belgium, abdicates
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16 Jul 1951 Len Hutton scores his 100th 100, Yorks vs. Surrey at The Oval
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16 Jul 1951 Novel "Catcher in Rye" by JD Salinger published
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16 Jul 1951 King Leopold III of Belgium abdicates in favor of his son, Baudouin I of Belgium.
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16 Jul 1951 The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger is published for the first time by Little, Brown and Company.
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16 Jul 1951 Novel "Catcher in the Rye" by JD Salinger published
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16 Jul 1953 KROC (now KTTC) TV channel 10 in Rochester, MN (NBC) 1st broadcast
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16 Jul 1955 "Golden Horseshoe Revue" 1st of 50,000+ performances, Disneyland
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16 Jul 1956 King Faisal of Iraq begins visit to England
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16 Jul 1956 Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus closes its very last "Big Tent" show in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, due to changing economics all subsequent circus shows will be held in arenas.
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16 Jul 1956 Detroit Tigers & Briggs Stadium sold for then record $5.5 million
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16 Jul 1956 Karelo-Finnish SSR becomes part of Russian SFSR
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16 Jul 1956 Last Ringling Bros, Barnum & Bailey Circus under a canvas tent
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16 Jul 1957 Marine Maj John Glenn sets transcontinental speed record (03:28:08)
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16 Jul 1960 USS George Washington a modified Skipjack class submarine successfully test fires the first ballistic missile while submerged.
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16 Jul 1960 205,000 (record sports attend) see Brazil-Uruguay World Cup soccer
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16 Jul 1960 George Crowe sets record of 12 pinch hit HRs with a runner on
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16 Jul 1961 Kathy Cornelius wins LPGA Tippecanoe Golf Open
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16 Jul 1961 Ralph Boston of the US, sets then long jump record at 27' 2"
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16 Jul 1962 NASA civilian test pilot Joseph A Walker takes X-15 to 32,600 m
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16 Jul 1963 Amazon carries 190,000 m3 / sec (record)
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16 Jul 1964 Republicans convention selects Barry Goldwater as Presidential Candidate
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16 Jul 1965 Mount Blanc Road tunnel between France and Italy opens
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16 Jul 1965 The Mont Blanc Tunnel linking France and Italy opens.
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16 Jul 1965 South Vietnamese Colonel Phạm Ngọc Thảo—an undetected communist spy—was hunted down and killed after being sentenced to death in absentia for a February 1965 coup attempt against Nguyễn Khánh.
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16 Jul 1966 "Half a Sixpence" closes at Broadhurst Theater NYC after 512 performances
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16 Jul 1967 Mickey Wright wins Lady Carling Golf Open
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16 Jul 1967 Prison brawl ignites barracks, killing 37 (Jay, Florida)
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16 Jul 1969 Apollo program: Apollo 11, the first mission to land astronauts on the Moon, is launched from the Kennedy Space Center at Cape Kennedy, Florida.
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16 Jul 1969 Apollo 11, carrying 1st men to land on the Moon, launched
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16 Jul 1970 Pitts Pirates replaces Forbes Field with 3 River Stadium
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16 Jul 1971 Franco points Prince Juan Carlos as deputy in Spain
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16 Jul 1972 Dimitrios Papadopoulos becomes 269th patriarch of Constantinople
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16 Jul 1972 Smokey Robinson and Miracles final live performance
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16 Jul 1973 Watergate scandal: Former White House aide Alexander Butterfield informs the United States Senate that President Richard Nixon had secretly recorded potentially incriminating conversations.
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16 Jul 1973 During Watergate hearings, Butterfield reveals existence of tapes
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16 Jul 1974 Felix Aguilar Observatory discovers asteroid #2964
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16 Jul 1975 Commissioner Bowie Kuhn is reelected for a 7-year term
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16 Jul 1976 Rock duo Loggins & Messina break-up after 6 years
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16 Jul 1977 Janelle Commissiong, of Trinidad and Tobago, crowned 26th Miss Universe
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16 Jul 1978 Joanne Carner wins LPGA Borden Golf Classic
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16 Jul 1979 Premier / President al-Bakr of Iraq is succeeded by Saddam Hussein
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16 Jul 1979 Iraqi President Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr resigns and is replaced by Saddam Hussein.
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16 Jul 1980 Polish railway workers block railway to Russia
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16 Jul 1980 Ronald Reagan nominated for President by Republicans in Detroit
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16 Jul 1981 India performs nuclear Test
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16 Jul 1981 Mahathir Mohamad becomes Malaysia's 4th Prime Minister.
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16 Jul 1981 Shukuni Sasaki spins 72 plates simultaneously
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16 Jul 1982 George P Shultz sworn in as Minister of Foreign Affairs
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16 Jul 1982 Sun Myung Moon sentenced to 18 months for tax fraud
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16 Jul 1982 NASA launches Landsat 4 to thematic map the Earth
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16 Jul 1983 Sikorsky S-61 disaster: A helicopter crashes off the Isles of Scilly, causing 20 fatalities.
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16 Jul 1983 20 killed in Britain's worst helicopter accident
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16 Jul 1985 56th All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 6-1 at Humphrey Metrodome, Minnesota
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16 Jul 1985 All star MVP: LaMarr Hoyt (SD Padres)
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16 Jul 1985 Bill to abolish Greater London Council receives royal assent
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16 Jul 1985 F-86 Sabre sets world aircraft speed record of 1152 kph (716 mph)
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16 Jul 1985 NL beats AL 6-1 in th All Star Game (HHH Metrodome, Minn)
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16 Jul 1987 Don Mattingly hits his 4th grand slam of season and ties AL record of homers in 6 straight games (on way to tie major league record of 8)
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16 Jul 1987 Said Aouita runs world record 2000m (4:50.81)
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16 Jul 1987 Don Mattingly hits his 4th grand slam of the season & ties AL record
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16 Jul 1988 Wayne Gretzky (NHL) and Janet Jones (Police Academy 5) wed in Edmonton
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16 Jul 1988 Carl Lewis runs a wind-assisted 100 m in 9.78 sec
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16 Jul 1988 Florence Joyner runs 100 m in women's world record 10.49 seconds
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16 Jul 1988 Jackie Joyner-Kersee sets women's hepathlete record of 7,215 pts
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16 Jul 1988 Michael J Fox marries Tracy Pollan
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16 Jul 1988 San Antonio (Texas League) beats Jackson 1-0 in 26 innings
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16 Jul 1990 Bridgette LeAnn Wilson, 17, of Oregon, 8th crowned Miss Teen USA
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16 Jul 1990 Civil trial by parents of Suicide victims against Judas Priest begins
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16 Jul 1990 Ukraine declares independence
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16 Jul 1990 The Luzon Earthquake strikes in Benguet, Pangasinan, Nueva Ecija, La Union, Aurora, Bataan, Zambales and Tarlac, Philippines, with an intensity of 7.7.
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16 Jul 1990 The Parliament of the Ukrainian SSR declares state sovereignty over the territory of the Ukrainian SSR.
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16 Jul 1990 400 die in a (7.7) earthquake in the Philippines
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16 Jul 1990 NYC's Empire State Building catches fire-No fatalities
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16 Jul 1990 Rick Dee's "Into the Night," premiers on ABC-TV
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16 Jul 1993 President Lissouba calls emergency rule in Congo-Brazzaville
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16 Jul 1993 San Francisco outfielder Darren Lewis sets record of 267 consecutive errorless games
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16 Jul 1994 "Sisters Rosensweig" closes at Barrymore Theater NYC after 556 performances
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16 Jul 1994 1st parts of Comet Shoemaker-Levy hits Jupiter (until July 22nd)
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16 Jul 1994 3 tenors-Placid Domingo, Luciano Parvoti, Jose Carreras, perform in LA
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16 Jul 1994 Baseball Night in America premieres (no Saturday day games)
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16 Jul 1994 Shreveport Pirates 1st CFL home game (vs. Toronto Argonauts)
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16 Jul 1994 Spanish fishing boats sink a French fishing boat over fishing rights
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16 Jul 1994 Sweden shuts out Bulgaria 4-0, to finish 3rd in the World Cup
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16 Jul 1994 Comet Shoemaker–Levy 9 collides with Jupiter. Impacts continue until July 22.
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16 Jul 1995 "Buttons on Broadway" closes at Ambassador Theater NYC after 40 performances
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16 Jul 1995 "Chronicles of a Death Foretold" closes at Plymouth NYC after 55 performances
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16 Jul 1995 13th Seniors Players Golf Championship: J C Snead
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16 Jul 1997 Jerold Mackenzie awarded $266M for being fired from Miller Brewing for sexual harrassment for relaying a Seinfeld episode to a co worker
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16 Jul 1999 John F. Kennedy, Jr., piloting a Piper Saratoga aircraft, dies when his plane crashes into the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Martha's Vineyard. His wife Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy and sister-in-law Lauren Bessette are also killed.
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16 Jul 2004 Millennium Park, considered Chicago, Illinois's first and most ambitious early 21st-century architectural project, is opened to the public by Mayor Richard M. Daley.
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16 Jul 2008 Sixteen infants in Gansu Province, China, who had been fed on tainted milk powder, are diagnosed with kidney stones; in total an estimated 300,000 infants are affected.
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16 Jul 2013 As many as 27 children die and 25 others are hospitalized after eating lunch served at their school in eastern India.
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