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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)
1212
Battle of Las Navas de Tolosa: after Pope Innocent III calls 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 defeat those of the Berber Muslim leader Almohad, thus marking a significant turning point in the Reconquista and in the medieval history of Spain.
1769
Father Junipero Serra founds California’s first mission, Mission San Diego de Alcalá. Over the following decades, it evolves into the city of San Diego.
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.
1910
John Robertson Duigan makes the first flight of the Duigan pusher biplane, the first aircraft built in Australia.
1935
The world’s first parking meter is installed in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.
1950
Chaplain-Medic massacre: American POWs were massacred by North Korean Army.
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.
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.
Who were born on July 16?
1880
Kathleen Thompson Norris, American novelist (d. 1966)
1929
Charles Ray Hatcher, American serial killer (d. 1984)
1930
Guy Béart, Egyptian-born French singer and songwriter
1936
Venkatraman Subramanya, Indian cricketer
1946
Richard LeParmentier, American actor
1950
Pierre Paradis, Quebec politician
1959
Doug Herzog, American television executive
1973
Tim Ryan, American politician
1981
Giuseppe Di Masi, Italian footballer
1982
Michael Umaña, Costa Rican footballer
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