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
1969 : Apollo 11 launch 1994 : Image o impact sites on Jupiter 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
Roald Amundsen Gareth Bale 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 comedian1936 - Yasuo Fukuda , Japanese politeecian, umwhile Prime meenister o Japan 1942 - Margaret Court , Australie tennis player1948 - Pinchas Zukerman , Israeli violinist1964 - Miguel Indurain , Spaingie cyclist1967 - Will Ferrell , American actor an comedian1968 - Larry Sanger , American computer scientist an co-foonder o Wikipaedia 1969 - Sahra Wagenknecht , German politeecian1982 - Carli Lloyd , American fitbawer1988 - Sergio Busquets , Spaingie fitbawer1989 - Gareth Bale , Welsh fitbawer1995 - 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 )
Halidays
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