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July 16 Historical Events

The following events took place on July 16. The list is arranged in chronological order.

Found 48 events. Showing 31 - 48.

  • 1956
    Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus closes its very last “Big Tent” show in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, due to changing economics all subsequent circus shows will be held in arenas.
  • 1960
    USS George Washington a modified sclass- Skipjack successfully test fires the first ballistic missile while submerged.
  • 1965
    The Mont Blanc Tunnel linking France and Italy opens.
  • 1965
    South Vietnamese Colonel Phạm Ngọc Thảo, a formerly undetected communist spy and double agent, is hunted down and killed by unknown individuals after being sentenced to death in absentia for a February 1965 coup attempt against Nguyễn Khánh.
  • 1969
    Apollo program: Apollo 11, the first mission to land astronauts on the Moon, is launched from the Kennedy Space Center at Cape Kennedy, Florida.
  • 1973
    Watergate scandal: Former White House aide Alexander Butterfield informs the United States Senate that President Richard Nixon had secretly recorded potentially incriminating conversations.
  • 1979
    Iraqi President Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr resigns and is replaced by Saddam Hussein.
  • 1981
    Mahathir Mohamad becomes Malaysia’s 4th Prime Minister.
  • 1983
    Sikorsky S-61 disaster: A helicopter crashes off the Isles of Scilly, causing 20 fatalities.
  • 1990
    The Luzon earthquake strikes in Benguet, Pangasinan, Nueva Ecija, La Union, Aurora, Bataan, Zambales and Tarlac, Philippines, with an intensity of 7.7.
  • 1990
    The Parliament of the Ukrainian SSR declares state sovereignty over the territory of the Ukrainian SSR.
  • 1994
    Comet Shoemaker–Levy 9 collides with Jupiter. Impacts continue until July 22.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 2007
    An earthquake of magnitude 6.8 and 6.6 aftershock occurs off the Niigata coast of Japan killing eight people, injuring at least 800 and damaging a nuclear power plant.
  • 2008
    Sixteen infants in Gansu Province, China, who had been fed on tainted milk powder, are diagnosed with kidney stones; in total an estimated 300,000 infants are affected.
  • 2013
    As many as 27 children die and 25 others are hospitalized after eating lunch served at their school in eastern India.
  • 2015
    Four U.S. Marines and one gunman die in a shooting spree targeting military installations in Chattanooga, Tennessee.

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