Notable Historical Events on July 16th
July 16th Historical Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
463 |
Start of Lunar Cycle of Hilarius |
622 |
Moslem Era begins-Mahomet begins flight from Mecca to Medina (Hejira) |
1054 |
Michael Caerularius excommunicated of Constantinople |
1054 |
Three Roman legates fracture relations between Western and Eastern Christian churches by placing invalid Papal Bull of Excommunication on altar of Hagia Sophia during Saturday afternoon divine liturgy. Often dated as start of the East-West Schism. |
1099 |
Crusaders herd Jews of Jerusalem into a synagogue & set it afire |
1212 |
Battle of Las Navas de Tolosa; end of Moslem power in Spain |
1251 |
The Virgin Mary gives Simon Stock a Brown Scapular (legend) |
1338 |
German monarch signs Treaty of Rense |
1429 |
Army entered Reims |
1429 |
Joan of Arc and the French army enter the city of Rheims |
1439 |
Kissing is banned in England (to stop germs from spreading) |
1465 |
Battle at Montlhéry |
1519 |
Public debate between Martin Luther & theologist John Eck at Pleissenburg Castle in Liepzig, Luther denies the divine right of the Pope |
1548 |
La Paz, Bolivia is founded |
1573 |
Alva demands submission of Zealand/Holland |
1618 |
Capt John Gilbert patents 1st dredger in Britain |
1661 |
1st banknotes in Europe are issued by Bank of Stockholm |
1683 |
Turkish troops under Kara Mustafa attain Vienna |
1683 |
Manchu/Chinese Qing Dynasty naval forces under commander Shi Lang defeat the Kingdom of Tungning in the Battle of Penghu near the Pescadores Islands. |
1755 |
John Adams graduates Harvard |
1769 |
Father Junipero Serra founds Mission San Diego, 1st mission in Calif |
1782 |
Mozart's opera "Das Entfuhrung aus dem Serail," premieres in Vienna |
1790 |
US Congress establishes District of Columbia |
1798 |
US Public Health Service forms & US Marine Hospital authorized |
1801 |
Pope Pius VII & 1st consul Napoleon sign concord |
1809 |
La Paz, Bolivia declares its independence from the Spanish Crown and forms the Junta Tuitiva. The first independent government in Spanish America, led by Pedro Domingo Murillo |
1819 |
Fabian Gottlieb von Bellinghausen sets sail to explore Antarctica for Tsar Alexander I |
1845 |
NY Yacht Club holds its 1st regatta |
1856 |
Statue of Laurens Jansz Coster unveiled in Haarlem |
1857 |
Sir Henry Havelock arrives at Battle of Cawnpore |
1861 |
Battle of Bull Run, the 1st major battle of the Civil War, is fought |
1861 |
Manassas Campaign [->JUL 22] |
1862 |
David Farragut is 1st Rear Admiral in US Navy |
1863 |
Utrecht-Swells railway opens |
1867 |
Amstel Hotel, "the dignified old lady" opens in Amsterdam |
1867 |
D R Averill patents ready-mixed paint |
1867 |
Joseph Monier patents reinforced concrete |
1879 |
3rd Wimbledon Mens Tennis: John Hartley beats V Goold (6-2 6-4 6-2) |
1880 |
Dr. Emily Stowe becomes the first woman licenced to practice medicine in Canada. |
1883 |
7th Wimbledon Mens Tennis: William Renshaw beats E Renshaw (2-6 6-3 6-3 4-6 6-3) |
1888 |
5th Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Lottie Dod beats Blanche Hillyard (6-3 6-3) |
1888 |
12th Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Ernest Renshaw beats H Lawford (6-3 7-5 6-0) |
1894 |
Many negro miners in Alabama killed by striking white miners |
1894 |
Treaty of Aoki-Kimberley signed between Japan & England |
1895 |
Archie MacLaren completes cricket 424 for Lancs v Somerset at Taunton |
1897 |
The South African Committee, investigating the Jameson Raid releases its report finding that it was conducted almost implicitly through the support and encouragement of Cecil John Rhodes and the mining houses in the Transvaal |
1900 |
A report appears in London that all foreigners in Peking, China, have been massacred. Although soon exposed as false, the report helps mobolize support for relief of foreigners |
1900 |
Russia launch an offensive against the Chinese in Manchuria |
1901 |
The Fawcett Commission headed by Millicent Fawcett is established as a result of an outcry against the treatment of Afrikaners in concentration camps during the South African War |
1902 |
John McGraw named manager of NY Giants |
1902 |
Test Cricket debut of K S Ranjitsinhji v Australia, at Old Trafford |
1904 |
Islands of Manu'a group (Samoa) ceded to US by their chiefs |
1909 |
Det & Wash play longest scoreless game in AL history-18 innings |
1912 |
Naval torpedo launched from an airplane patents by B A Fiske |
1914 |
Socialist conference in Brussels (Kautsky, Trotski & Rosa Luxemburg) |
1918 |
A Bolshevik firing squad at Ekaterinburg, Siberia, executes Tsar Nicholas II of Russia and his family |
1920 |
15th Davis Cup: USA beats Australasia in Auckland (5-0) |
1920 |
China joins the League of Nations |
1920 |
Gen Amos Fries appointed 1st US army chemical warfare chief |
1920 |
Ruth sets season home run record with 30 en route to 54 |
1924 |
Conference over German recovery payments begins in London |
1924 |
NY Giants George Kelly is 1st to hit HRs in 6 cons games |
1926 |
Jaspar government asks authority to save Belgian franc |
1926 |
National Geographic takes 1st natural-color undersea photos |
1927 |
Augusto Sandino begins 5½ year war against US occupation of Nicaragua |
1934 |
Bradman scores 140 Aust v Yorkshire, 120 mins, 22 fours 2 sixes |
1935 |
1st automatic parking meter in US installed (Oklahoma City, Ok) |
1936 |
1st x-ray photo of arterial circulation, Rochester, NY |
1936 |
NY Giants are 10½ games back in NL, & go on to win pennant |
1938 |
21st PGA Championship: Paul Runyan at Shawnee CC Shawnee-on-Del Pa |
1940 |
NSB'er Woudenberg appointed as NVV-trustee |
1941 |
100°F (38°C) highest temperature ever recorded in Seattle Wash |
1941 |
Joe DiMaggio goes 3 for 4, hitting in his 56th straight game |
1942 |
French police arrest 13,152 Jews in Paris |
1942 |
Jews transported from Holland to extermination camp |
1944 |
Dodgers score 8 unearned runs against Braves to win 8-5 & break their 16-game losing streak, they will lose another 5 in a row |
1945 |
1st test detonation of an atomic bomb, Trinity Site, Alamogordo, New Mexico as part of the US Manhatten Project |
1945 |
Australian Services win 3rd Victory Test Cricket by 4 wickets |
1945 |
Cruiser Indianapolis leaves SF with atom bomb |
1946 |
Attempt made to recall Mayor Lapham (1st time in SF history) |
1946 |
US court martials 46 SS to death (Battle of Bulge crimes) in Dachau |
1947 |
Bobo Newsom wins 200th game, 1st as a Yankee & Yanks 18th straight In nightcap Vic Rashi extends streak to 19 |
1948 |
Eddie Sawyer replaces Ben Chapman in Phila, NY Giants Leo Durocher replaces Mel Ott & Burt Shotton replaces Durocher as Dodger manager |
1950 |
Single day 16 team HR record set at 37 (NL-25, AL-12) |
1950 |
Uruguay beats Brazil 2-1 for soccer's 4th World Cup in Rio de Janeiro |
1951 |
1st Dutchman to win Tour de France (Wim Van Est) |
1951 |
King Leopold III, of Belgium, abdicates |
1951 |
Len Hutton scores his 100th 100, Yorks v Surrey at The Oval |
1951 |
Novel "Catcher in Rye" by J. D. Salinger published |
1953 |
KROC (now KTTC) TV channel 10 in Rochester, MN (NBC) 1st broadcast |
1955 |
"Golden Horseshoe Revue" 1st of 50,000+ performances, Disneyland |
1956 |
Detroit Tigers & Briggs Stadium sold for then record $5.5 million |
1956 |
Karelo-Finnish SSR becomes part of Russian SFSR |
1956 |
King Faisal of Iraq begins visit to England |
1956 |
Last Ringling Bros, Barnum & Bailey Circus under a canvas tent |
1957 |
Marine Maj John Glenn sets transcontinental speed record (03:28:08) |
1960 |
205,000 (record sports attend) see Brazil-Uruguay World Cup soccer |
1960 |
George Crowe sets record of 12 pinch hit HRs with a runner on |
1961 |
Kathy Cornelius wins LPGA Tippecanoe Golf Open |
1961 |
Ralph Boston of US, sets then long jump record at 27' 2" |
1962 |
NASA civilian Test pilot Joseph A Walker takes X-15 to 32,600 m |
1963 |
Amazon river carries 190,000 m3/sec of water (record) |
1964 |
Republicans convention selects Barry Goldwater as pres candidate |
1965 |
Mount Blanc Road tunnel between France & Italy opens |
1966 |
"Half a Sixpence" closes at Broadhurst Theater NYC after 512 perfs |
1966 |
Number of banned persons in South Africa totals 936; the individuals are banned under various laws, most prominently the Suppression of Communism and Riotous Assembly Acts |
1966 |
Nigeria becomes the first Anglophone independent state in Africa to become an associate member of European Economic Community |
1967 |
Mickey Wright wins Lady Carling Golf Open |
1967 |
Prison brawl ignites barracks, killing 37 (Jay, Florida) |
1969 |
Apollo 11, carrying 1st men to land on Moon, launched |
1970 |
Iraq's constitution goes into effect |
1970 |
Reds spoil Pirates debut in Pittsburgh's Three Rivers Stadium, 3-2 |
1971 |
Franco appoints prince Juan Carlos as deputy in Spain |
1971 |
The Social Democratic and Labour Party (SDLP) withdraw from Stormont (North Ireland Parliament) after no inquiry is announced into the shooting dead of Seamus Cusack and Desmond Beattie |
1972 |
Dimitrios Papadopoulos becomes 269th patriarch of Constantinople |
1972 |
Smokey Robinson & Miracles final live performance |
1973 |
During Watergate hearings, Butterfield reveals existence of tapes |
1975 |
Commissioner Bowie Kuhn is reelected for a 7-year term |
1976 |
Rock duo Loggins & Messina break-up after 6 years |
1977 |
Janelle Commissiong, of Trinidad & Tobago, crowned 26th Miss Universe |
1978 |
Joanne Carner wins LPGA Borden Golf Classic |
1979 |
Premier/pres al-Bakr of Iraq is succeeded by Saddam Hussein |
1980 |
Polish railway workers block railway to Russia |
1980 |
Ronald Reagan nominated for US President by Republicans in Detroit |
1981 |
India performs nuclear Test |
1981 |
Shukuni Sasaki spins 72 plates simultaneously |
1982 |
George P. Shultz sworn in as US Secretary of State |
1982 |
NASA launches Landsat 4 to thematic map the Earth |
1982 |
Sun Myung Moon sentenced to 18 months for tax fraud |
1983 |
20 killed in Britain's worst helicopter accident |
1983 |
Sikorsky S-61 disaster: A helicopter crashes off the Isles of Scilly, causing 20 fatalities. |
1985 |
56th All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 6-1 at Humphrey Metrodome, Minn |
1985 |
All star MVP: LaMarr Hoyt (SD Padres) |
1985 |
Bill to abolish Greater London Council receives royal assent |
1985 |
F-86 Sabre sets world aircraft speed record of 1152 kph (716 mph) |
1987 |
Great Britain performs nuclear Test at Nevada Test Site |
1987 |
Said Aouita runs world record 2000m (4:50.81) |
1987 |
Don Mattingly hits his 4th grand slam of season & ties AL record of homers in 6 straight games (on way to tie major league record of 8) |
1988 |
Carl Lewis runs a wind-assisted 100 m in 9.78 sec |
1988 |
Florence Joyner runs 100 m in women's world record 10.49 seconds |
1988 |
Jackie Joyner-Kersee sets women's heptathlete record of 7,215 pts |
1988 |
San Antonio (Texas League) beats Jackson 1-0 in 26 innings |
1988 |
Wayne Gretzky (NHL) & Janet Jones (Police Acad 5) wed in Edmonton |
1989 |
44th US Women's Open Golf Championship won by Betsy King |
1989 |
South Africa's largest labour federation, the Congress of South African Trade Unions, holds its third annual congress and intensifies its campaign against apartheid |
1990 |
400 die in a (7.7) earthquake in Philippines |
1990 |
Bridgette LeAnn Wilson, 17, of Oregon, 8th crowned Miss Teen USA |
1990 |
Civil trial by parents of Suicide victims against Judas Priest begins |
1990 |
NYC's Empire State Building catches fire-No fatalities |
1990 |
Rick Dee's "Into the Night," premieres on ABC-TV |
1990 |
Ukraine declares independence |
1990 |
The ANC send a report on police violence to President F. W. de Klerk and demanded an end to "the shocking inhumanity" of police action in rural areas of South Africa |
1993 |
President Lissouba calls emergency rule in Congo-Brazzaville |
1993 |
S van Ruysdael's "Winter Landscape" sold for £705,500 in London |
1993 |
SF outfielder Darren Lewis sets record of 267 consec errorless games |
1994 |
"Sisters Rosensweig" closes at Barrymore Theater NYC after 556 perfs |
1994 |
1st parts of Comet Shoemaker-Levy hits Jupiter (until July 22nd) |
1994 |
3 tenors-Placid Domingo, Luciano Parvoti, Jose Carreras, perform in LA |
1994 |
Baseball Night in America premieres (no Saturday day games) |
1994 |
Comet Shoemaker-Levy collides with Jupiter |
1994 |
Shreveport Pirates 1st CFL home game (vs Toronto Argonauts) |
1994 |
Spanish fishing boats sink a French fishing boat over fishing rights |
1994 |
Sweden shuts out Bulgaria 4-0, to finish 3rd in the World Cup |
1995 |
"Buttons on Broadway" closes at Ambassador Theater NYC after 40 perfs |
1995 |
"Chronicles of a Death Foretold" closes at Plymouth NYC after 55 perfs |
1995 |
13th Seniors Players Golf Championship: J C Snead |
1995 |
50th US Women's Open Golf Championship won by Annika Sorenstam |
1999 |
John F. Kennedy Jr., his wife Carolyn Bessette Kennedy, and sister-in-law Lauren Bessette are killed in a plane crash off the coast of Martha's Vineyard. The Piper Saratoga aircraft was piloted by Kennedy. |
2003 |
11th ESPY Awards: Lance Armstrong, Serena Williams win |
2004 |
Millennium Park, considered the first and most ambitious architectural project in the early 21st century for Chicago, is opened to the public by Mayor Richard M. Daley. |
2006 |
14th ESPY Awards: Lance Armstrong, Annika Sorenstam win |
2007 |
An earthquake of magnitude 6.8 and aftershock of 6.6 occurs off the Niigata coast, Japan, killing 8 people with at least 800 injured and damaging a nuclear power plant. See 2007 Chūetsu offshore earthquake. |
2008 |
79th All Star Baseball Game: AL wins 4-3 at Yankee Stadium, New York |
2013 |
27 children are killed and 25 are hospitalized after eating lunch contaminated with insecticide in India |
2013 |
84th All Star Baseball Game: AL wins 3-0 at Citi Field, New York |
2014 |
Bashar Assad is sworn in for a third term as President of Syria |
2016 |
Total of 1563 military personnel arrested after Turkish coup attempt: official |
2016 |
Attempted Turkey coup threatens US fight against Islamic State |
2016 |
US urges support of Turkey government as world watches coup |
2018 |
France overpowers Croatia 4-2 to win 2nd World Cup |
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