16th of July

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The July 16 is the 197th day of the Gregorian calendar (the 198th in leap years ), thus still 168 days remain until the end of the year.

Historic anniversaries
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Events

Politics and world events
1212: The battle of Las Navas de Tolosa
1377: Richard II.
1920: The territorial division of Austria-Hungary through the Treaty of Saint-Germain

economy

science and technology

1945: Trinity explosion
1969: Start of Apollo 11
1994: Immersing the fragment "W"
  • 1994: Fragments of the comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 discovered in the previous year are immersed in the atmosphere of the planet Jupiter . It is the first time that the collision of two bodies in the solar system and the effects of such an impact can be directly observed.

Culture

1482: World map of Cosmographia

society

1676: Marie-Madeleine de Brinvilliers is tortured before she dies

religion

1260: Nichiren

Disasters

  • 1669: In Salzburg will cost a rock fall of the Mönchsberg 230 lives.
  • 1832: 31 Sixern fishing boats caught in a storm in the Shetland Islands ; 105 people drown.
  • 1935: An earthquake of magnitude 6.5 on Taiwan as requested 2,700 deaths.
  • 1945: On the Munich – Rosenheim railway line, a train had to stop between the Aßling and Oberelkofen stations due to locomotive damage, which was manned by prisoners of war returning to the Rhineland and Westphalia. A freight train with military material for the American occupation forces drives onto the stationary train. The exact number of victims varies depending on the sources from 102 to 106 killed.
  • 1965: Severe storms with heavy downpours hit southern Lower Saxony, eastern Westphalia and northern Hesse. The resulting Heinrich flood cost 11 lives and damages in the hundreds of millions.
  • 1990: A 7.8 magnitude earthquake struck Luzon , Philippines, killing 1,621 people.
  • 2001: More than 200 people are killed in water in a mine in Guangxi Autonomous Region in the People's Republic of China .

Minor accidents are listed in the sub-articles of Disaster .

Sports
Roger Federer

Entries of track and field world records can be found under the respective discipline under track and field . Entries on football world championship games can be found in the sub-pages of football world championships . The same goes for European football championships .

Born

Before the 19th century

Andrea del Sarto (* 1486)

18th century

Charles de Rohan-Soubise (* 1715)

19th century

1801-1850

Johann Christoph Blumhardt (* 1805)
Mary Baker Eddy (* 1821)

1851-1900

Roald Amundsen (* 1872)
Gottlob Berger (* 1896)

20th century

1901-1925

Fritz Bauer (* 1903)
Woodrow Stanley Lloyd (* 1913)

1926-1950

Yasuo Fukuda (* 1936)
Margret Court (* 1942)

1951-1975

Gabriela Schimmer-Göresz (* 1952)
Christoph Mörgeli (* 1960)
Sahra Wagenknecht (* 1969)

1976-2000

Oliver Marach (* 1980)
Gareth Bale (born 1989)

21st century

Died

Before the 17th century

Innocent III († 1216)

17th and 18th centuries

Andreas Gryphius († 1664)

19th century

Benedikt Maria von Werkmeister († 1823)

20th century

1901-1950

Albert Anker († 1910)
Alice Pike Barney († 1931)

1951-2000

Albert Kesselring († 1960)
Heinrich Böll († 1985)

21st century

  • 2001: Morris , Belgian comic book artist and writer ( Lucky Luke )
  • 2001: Pierre Pidoux , Swiss Protestant church musician and musicologist
Beate Uhse († 2001)
Alex Colville († 2013)

Holidays and memorial days

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 16 July: On this day in Scottish history. BBC website , accessed July 27, 2018

The list of days of remembrance and action contains further entries .

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