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 Spanish then this day of the week in Spanish is martes.
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Here’s the July calendar. You can also browse the full year monthly calendar.
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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)
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.
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.
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.
1931
Emperor Haile Selassie I signs the first constitution of Ethiopia.
1941
Joe DiMaggio hits safely for the 56th consecutive game, a streak that still stands as a MLB record.
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.
1950
Chaplain-Medic massacre: American POWs were massacred by North Korean Army.
1951
King Léopold III of Belgium abdicates in favor of his son, Baudouin I of Belgium.
1999
John F. Kennedy, Jr., piloting a Piper Saratoga aircraft, dies when his plane crashes into the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Martha’s Vineyard. His wife Carolyn Bessette Kennedy and sister-in-law Lauren Bessette are also killed.
Who were born on July 16?
1912
Milt Bocek, American baseball player (d. 2007)
1943
Reinaldo Arenas, Cuban poet (d. 1990)
1948
Pierre Koffmann, French chef
1950
Tom Terrell, American journalist, musicologist and DJ (d. 2007)
1958
Michael Flatley, American dancer
1959
Doug Herzog, American television executive
1980
Justine Joli, American pornographic actress and adult model
1985
Denis Tahirović, Croatian footballer
1990
James Maslow, American singer and actor (Big Time Rush)
1991
Randall Bentley, American actor
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