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, 478,080 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 ‘hectaenneacontaoctagon’ 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 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
- 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.
- 1862 –American Civil War: David Farragut is promoted to rear admiral, becoming the first officer in United States Navy to hold an admiral rank.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1960 –USS George Washington a modified Skipjack class submarine successfully test fires the first ballistic missile while submerged.
- 1979 –Iraqi President Hasan al-Bakr resigns and is replaced by Saddam Hussein.
- 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.
Who were born on July 16?
- 1902 –Alexander Luria, Russian psychologist (d. 1977)
- 1924 –Bess Myerson, American beauty queen
- 1938 –Tony Jackson, English bass player (The Searchers) (d. 2003)
- 1948 –Pinchas Zukerman, Israeli violinist
- 1959 –Gary Anderson, American football player
- 1969 –Kathryn Harby-Williams, Australian netballer
- 1969 –Rain Pryor, American actress
- 1979 –Jayma Mays, American actress
- 1987 –Moussa Dembélé, Belgian footballer
- 1988 –Sergio Busquets,Spanish footballer
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)
- 1953 –Hilaire Belloc, English writer (b. 1870)
- 1990 –Robert Blackburn, Irish educationist (b. 1927)
- 1992 –Buck Buchanan, American football player (b. 1940)
- 1994 –Julian Schwinger, American physicist, Nobel laureate (b. 1918)
- 1995 –Stephen Spender, English poet (b. 1909)
- 1998 –John Henrik Clarke, American historian and scholar (b. 1915)
- 2002 –John Cocke, American computer scientist (b. 1925)
- 2011 –Forrest Blue, American football player (b. 1944)
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