WillDekkard
07-16-2010, 04:31 AM
Hear are some notable events that happened on This Date in History
- July 16th
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* 622 The beginning of the Islamic calendar.
* 1054 Three Roman legates fracture 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 starting the East-West Schism.
* 1212 Battle of Las Navas de Tolosa: After Pope Innocent III called 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 defeated those of the Berber Muslim leader Almohad, thus marking a significant turning point in the Reconquista and medieval history of Spain.
* 1377 Coronation of Richard II of England.
* 1661 The first banknotes in Europe are issued by the Swedish bank Stockholms Banco.
* 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.
* 1769 Father Junipero Serra founds California's first mission, Mission San Diego de Alcalα. 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.
* 1782 First performance of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's opera The Abduction from the Seraglio.
* 1790 The District of Columbia is established as the capital of the United States after the signing of the Residence Act.
* 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.
* 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 The First Battle of Bull Run, the first major land battle of the war.
* 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.
* 1915 Henry James became a British citizen, to dramatize his commitment to England during the first World War.
* 1918 Czar Nicholas II, his wife Alexandra Feodorovna, their children, Olga, Tatiana, Maria, Anastasia, and Alexei, the family doctor, their servants and their pet dog are shot by the Bolsheviks, who had held them captive for 2 months in the basement of a house in Ekaterinberg, Russia.
* 1931 Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia signs the first constitution of Ethiopia.
* 1935 The world's first parking meter is installed in the Oklahoma capital, Oklahoma City.
* 1941 Joe DiMaggio hit safely for the 56th consecutive game, a streak that is an enduring MLB record.
* 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.
* 1945 World War II: The leaders of the three Allied nations, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, US President Harry S Truman and leader of the Soviet Union Josef Stalin, meet in the German city of Potsdam to decide the future of a defeated Germany.
* 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 the 1948 Arab-Israeli War's Operation Dekel.
* 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.
* 1951 King Lιopold III of Belgium abdicates in favor of his son, Baudouin I of Belgium.
* 1951 J.D. Salinger novel The Catcher in the Rye published by Little, Brown and Company
* 1951 Cary Grant presses his hands and shoes into wet cement in front of Grauman's Chinese Theater.
* 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.
* 1960 USS George Washington (SSBN-598) a modified Skipjack class submarine successfully test fires the first Ballistic missile while submerged.
* 1965 The Mont Blanc Tunnel linking France and Italy opens.
* 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.
* 1979 Iraqi President Hasan al-Bakr resigns and is replaced by Saddam Hussein.
* 1981 Mahathir bin Mohamad becomes Malaysia's 4th Prime Minister; his 22 years in office, ending with retirement on 31 October 2003, made him Asia's longest-serving political leader.
* 1983 Sikorsky S-61 disaster: A helicopter crashes off the Isles of Scilly, causing 20 fatalities.
* 1990 Luzon Earthquake stroke in Benguet, Pangasinan, Nueva Ecija, La Union, Aurora, Bataan, Zambales and Tarlac, Philippineswith an intensity of 7.7.
* 1994 Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 collides with Jupiter. Impacts continue until July 22.
* 1999 John F. Kennedy, Jr., piloting a Piper Saratoga aircraft, dies in a plane mishap over the Atlantic Ocean, off the coast of Martha's Vineyard, along with his wife Carolyn Bessette Kennedy and sister-in-law Lauren Bessette.
* 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 6.8 in magnitude and aftershock of 6.6 occurs off Japan's Niigata coast, killing 8 people, with at least 800 injured, and damaging a nuclear power plant.
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- July 16th
c/p from Wikipedia
* 622 The beginning of the Islamic calendar.
* 1054 Three Roman legates fracture 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 starting the East-West Schism.
* 1212 Battle of Las Navas de Tolosa: After Pope Innocent III called 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 defeated those of the Berber Muslim leader Almohad, thus marking a significant turning point in the Reconquista and medieval history of Spain.
* 1377 Coronation of Richard II of England.
* 1661 The first banknotes in Europe are issued by the Swedish bank Stockholms Banco.
* 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.
* 1769 Father Junipero Serra founds California's first mission, Mission San Diego de Alcalα. 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.
* 1782 First performance of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's opera The Abduction from the Seraglio.
* 1790 The District of Columbia is established as the capital of the United States after the signing of the Residence Act.
* 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.
* 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 The First Battle of Bull Run, the first major land battle of the war.
* 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.
* 1915 Henry James became a British citizen, to dramatize his commitment to England during the first World War.
* 1918 Czar Nicholas II, his wife Alexandra Feodorovna, their children, Olga, Tatiana, Maria, Anastasia, and Alexei, the family doctor, their servants and their pet dog are shot by the Bolsheviks, who had held them captive for 2 months in the basement of a house in Ekaterinberg, Russia.
* 1931 Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia signs the first constitution of Ethiopia.
* 1935 The world's first parking meter is installed in the Oklahoma capital, Oklahoma City.
* 1941 Joe DiMaggio hit safely for the 56th consecutive game, a streak that is an enduring MLB record.
* 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.
* 1945 World War II: The leaders of the three Allied nations, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, US President Harry S Truman and leader of the Soviet Union Josef Stalin, meet in the German city of Potsdam to decide the future of a defeated Germany.
* 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 the 1948 Arab-Israeli War's Operation Dekel.
* 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.
* 1951 King Lιopold III of Belgium abdicates in favor of his son, Baudouin I of Belgium.
* 1951 J.D. Salinger novel The Catcher in the Rye published by Little, Brown and Company
* 1951 Cary Grant presses his hands and shoes into wet cement in front of Grauman's Chinese Theater.
* 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.
* 1960 USS George Washington (SSBN-598) a modified Skipjack class submarine successfully test fires the first Ballistic missile while submerged.
* 1965 The Mont Blanc Tunnel linking France and Italy opens.
* 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.
* 1979 Iraqi President Hasan al-Bakr resigns and is replaced by Saddam Hussein.
* 1981 Mahathir bin Mohamad becomes Malaysia's 4th Prime Minister; his 22 years in office, ending with retirement on 31 October 2003, made him Asia's longest-serving political leader.
* 1983 Sikorsky S-61 disaster: A helicopter crashes off the Isles of Scilly, causing 20 fatalities.
* 1990 Luzon Earthquake stroke in Benguet, Pangasinan, Nueva Ecija, La Union, Aurora, Bataan, Zambales and Tarlac, Philippineswith an intensity of 7.7.
* 1994 Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 collides with Jupiter. Impacts continue until July 22.
* 1999 John F. Kennedy, Jr., piloting a Piper Saratoga aircraft, dies in a plane mishap over the Atlantic Ocean, off the coast of Martha's Vineyard, along with his wife Carolyn Bessette Kennedy and sister-in-law Lauren Bessette.
* 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 6.8 in magnitude and aftershock of 6.6 occurs off Japan's Niigata coast, killing 8 people, with at least 800 injured, and damaging a nuclear power plant.
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