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The
16t o Julie
is the 197t day o the year (198t in lowp years) in the Gregorian Calendar, wi 168 days ti come.
Events
- 622
– Stairt o the
Islamic
Calendar.
- 1212
–
Battle
o Las Navas de Tolosa in the
Spaingie
Reconquista
.
- 1377
– Coronation o
Richard II o Ingland
.
- 1661
–
Europe
's first banknotes are issued in
Swaden
.
- 1790
– In the
Unitit States
, the
District of Columbia
is made the site o the kintra's caipital.
- 1809
–
La Paz
,
Bolivie
, declares unthirldom frae
Spain
.
- 1931
–
Haile Selassie
signs the first Constitution o
Ethiopie
.
- 1935
– A magnitude 6.5
yirdquauk
kills 2,700 fowk in
Taiwan
.
- 1945
–
Winston Churchill
,
Joseph Stalin
an
Harry S. Truman
meet in
Potsdam
tae discuss the future o post-war
Germany
.
- 1945
– The
Unitit States
tests an atomic bomb in Alamogordo,
New Mexico
.
- 1950
–
Uruguay
wins the
FIFA Warld Cup
against host naition
Brazil
, winnin 2-1.
- 1951
– Keeng
Leopold III o Belgium
abdicates in favor o his son,
Baudouin I o Belgium
.
- 1951
–
J. D. Salinger
's novel "The Catcher in the Rye" is published.
- 1965
– The
Mont Blanc
tunnel on the
Fraunce
-
Italy
border is completit.
- 1969
–
Apollo 11
launches tae the
Muin
, frae
Florida
.
- 1979
–
Saddam Hussein
becomes
Preses
o
Iraq
.
- 1981
–
Mahathir Mohamad
becomes
Prime meenister
o
Malaysie
for the first time.
- 1983
– A Sikorsky S-61
helicopter
crashes aff the
Isles o Scilly
, soothwast
Ingland
, killin 20 fowk.
- 1990
– A
yirdquauk
hits the island o
Luzon
,
Philippines
, killin 1,621 fowk.
- 1994
–
Comet
Shoemaker-Levy 9 collides wi
Jupiter
.
- 2001
– A fluid in a mine in
Guangxi
,
Cheenae
, kills 200 fowk.
- 2013
– 27 childer die efter eatin thair schuil lunch in the state o
Bihar
, Eastren
Indie
.
- 2017
–
Roger Federer
defeats
Marin Cilic
tae win a record 8t
Wimbledon Championships
men's singles
tennis
teetle.
- 2017
–
Jodie Whittaker
is revealed as the first woman tae play the role o
Doctor Who
.
- 2018
– US Preses
Donald Trump
holds a summit meetin wi
Roushie
Preses
Vladimir Putin
in
Helsinki
,
Finland
.
- 2019
–
Guinness Warld Records
recognises Fford Pen Llech in Harlech,
Gwynedd
,
Wales
, as the warld's steepest street; it taks the record frae Baldwin Street in
Dunedin
,
New Zealand
- the record is gien back tae Baldwin Street the follaein year acause o a chynge in criteria.
- 2019
– German Defence Meenister
Ursula von der Leyen
is designatit as the first female
Preses
o the
European Commission
.
- 2020
– The
European Space Agency
's Solar Orbiter is revealed tae hae taken the closest-ever picturs o the
Sun
.
Births
- 1194
-
Clare o Assisi
, Italian saunt (d.
1253
)
- 1486
-
Andrea del Sarto
, Italian penter (d.
1530
)
- 1715
-
Charles de Rohan, Prince o Soubise
, French nobleman an general (d.
1787
)
- 1723
-
Joshua Reynolds
, Inglis penter (d.
1792
)
- 1746
-
Giuseppe Piazzi
, Italian priest, mathemateecian an astronomer (d.
1826
)
- 1796
-
Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot
, French penter (d.
1875
)
- 1827
-
George Hay-Drummond, 12t Yerl o Kinnoull
, Scots peer an cricketer (d.
1897
)
- 1872
-
Roald Amundsen
, Norse splorer o the
Airctic
an
Antarcticae
(d.
1928
)
- 1888
-
Frits Zernike
, Dutch pheesicist (d.
1966
)
- 1896
-
Trygve Lie
, Norse
Secretar-General o the Unitit Naitions
(d.
1968
)
- 1907
-
Barbara Stanwyck
, American actress (d.
1990
)
- 1911
-
Ginger Rogers
, American actress an dancer (d.
1995
)
- 1927
-
Bobby Evans
, Scots fitbawer (d.
2001
)
- 1932
-
Bill Byrge
, American actor an comedian
- 1936
-
Yasuo Fukuda
, Japanese politeecian, umwhile
Prime meenister
o
Japan
- 1942
-
Margaret Court
, Australie tennis player
- 1948
-
Pinchas Zukerman
, Israeli violinist
- 1964
-
Miguel Indurain
, Spaingie cyclist
- 1967
-
Will Ferrell
, American actor an comedian
- 1968
-
Larry Sanger
, American computer scientist an co-foonder o
Wikipaedia
- 1969
-
Sahra Wagenknecht
, German politeecian
- 1982
-
Carli Lloyd
, American fitbawer
- 1988
-
Sergio Busquets
, Spaingie fitbawer
- 1989
-
Gareth Bale
, Welsh fitbawer
- 1995
-
Frank Baines
, Scots gymnast
Daiths
- 1216
-
Pape Innocent III
(b.
1160
)
- 1309
-
James Stewart, 5t Heich Stewart o Scotland
, Heich Stewart o
Scotland
- 1557
-
Anne o Cleves
, Queen Consort o Ingland (b.
1515
)
- 1764
-
Ivan VI o Roushie
(b.
1740
)
- 1882
-
Mary Todd Lincoln
, First Lady o the Unitit States (b.
1818
)
- 1985
-
Heinrich Boell
, German writer (b.
1917
)
- 1989
-
Herbert von Karajan
, German conductor (b.
1908
)
- 1999
-
Julian Schwinger
, American pheesicist (b.
1918
)
- 2001
-
Christina Miller
, Scots chemist (b.
1899
)
- 2003
-
Celia Cruz
, Cuban sangster (b.
1925
)
- 2015
-
Alcides Ghiggia
, Uruguayan fitbawer (b.
1926
)
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