About July 16
July 16, 2024 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.
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Cancer is the sun 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.
What Happened On July 16
- 622 –The beginning of the Islamic calendar.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1782 –First performance of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s opera Die Entführung aus dem Serail.
- 1790 –The District of Columbia is established as the capital of the United States after signature of the Residence Act.
- 1880 –Emily Stowe becomes the first female physician licensed to practice medicine in Canada.
- 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.
- 1941 –Joe DiMaggio hits safely for the 56th consecutive game, a streak that still stands as a MLB record.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1950 –Chaplain-Medic massacre: American POWs were massacred by North Korean Army.
- 1951 –King Léopold III of Belgium abdicates in favor of his son, Baudouin I of Belgium.
- 1960 –USS George Washington a modified Skipjack class submarine successfully test fires the first ballistic missile while submerged.
- 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.
- 1983 –Sikorsky S-61 disaster: a helicopter crashes off the Isles of Scilly, causing 20 fatalities.
- 1990 –The Luzon Earthquake strikes in Benguet, Pangasinan, Nueva Ecija, La Union, Aurora, Bataan, Zambales and Tarlac, Philippines, with an intensity of 7.7.
- 1990 –The Parliament of the Ukrainian SSR declares state sovereignty over the territory of the Ukrainian SSR.
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