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.
- 1377 –Coronation of Richard II of England.
- 1661 –The first banknotes in Europe are issued by the Swedish bank Stockholms Banco.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1909 –Persian Constitutional Revolution: Mohammad Ali Shah Qajar is forced out as Shah of Persia and is replaced by his son Ahmad Shah Qajar.
- 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 –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.
- 1950 –Chaplain-Medic massacre: American POWs were massacred by North Korean Army.
- 1957 –United States Marine major John Glenn flies a F8U Crusader supersonic jet from California to New York in 3 hours, 23 minutes and 8 seconds, setting a new transcontinental speed record.
- 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.
- 1973 –Watergate Scandal: former White House aide Alexander P. Butterfield informs the United States Senate that President Richard Nixon had secretly recorded potentially incriminating conversations.
- 1983 –Sikorsky S-61 disaster: a helicopter crashes off the Isles of Scilly, causing 20 fatalities.
- 1990 –The Parliament of the Ukrainian SSR declares state sovereignty over the territory of the Ukrainian SSR.
- 1993 –The Slackware operating system is first released.
- 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.
- 2007 –2007 Chūetsu offshore earthquake: an earthquake of magnitude 6.8 and 6.6 aftershock occurs off the Niigata coast of Japan killing 8 people, injuring at least 800 and damaging a nuclear power plant.
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