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July 16: Day of the Week
July 16, 2024 is the 198th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 168 days remaining until the end of the year. The day of the week is Tuesday.
If you are trying to learn French then this day of the week in French is mardi.
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Zodiac & Birthstone
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.
July 16 Historical Event(s)
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.
1782
First performance of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s opera Die Entführung aus dem Serail.
1880
Emily Stowe becomes the first female physician licensed to practice medicine in Canada.
1915
Henry James becomes a British citizen, to highlight his commitment to England during the first World War.
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
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
The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger is published for the first time by Little, Brown and Company.
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.
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.
1993
The Slackware operating system is first released.
Who were born on July 16?
1714
Marc René, marquis de Montalembert, French military engineer (d. 1800)
1821
Mary Baker Eddy, American religious leader (d. 1910)
1880
Kathleen Thompson Norris, American novelist (d. 1966)
1903
Mary Philbin, American stage and film actress (d. 1993)
1934
Don Payne, American politician
1937
Richard Bryan, American politician
1943
Jimmy Johnson, American football coach
1948
Pierre Koffmann, French chef
1952
Momir Karadžić, Serbian footballer
1971
Corey Feldman, American actor
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Holy Toledo! Did you know that coffee and word games are an excellent combination to sharpen your vocabulary? Let’s give it a quick spin. Within 30 seconds, how many words can you think of from these letters QTGISISYAIE? Check your answers here: Word search QTGISISYAIE. (Sponsored by WordFinder.Cafe)
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