Today
in History
16 July
Joan of Arc
Roald Amundsen
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| This date in 622 is generally considered as the start of the Islamic Era, when Mohammed began his flight from Mecca to Medina. | ||
| 1048 Benedict IX, known as the "Boy Pope," resigned from the papacy. | ||
| 1054 Michael Caerularius excommunicated of Constantinople |
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| 1099 Crusaders herd Jews of Jerusalem into a synagogue & set it afire | ||
| 1212 Battle of Las Navas de Tolosa; end of Moslem power in Spain | ||
| 1251 The Virgin Mary gives Simon Stork a haircut (legend) | ||
| 1338 German monarch signs Treaty of Rense | ||
| 1429 Army entered Reims | ||
| 1429 Joan of Arc leads French army in Battle of Orleans | ||
| 1439 Kissing is banned in England (to stop germs from spreading) | ||
| 1519 Public debate between Martin Luther & theologist John Eck | ||
| 1548 La Paz, Bolivia is founded | ||
| 1571 Theodoor Galle, Flemish engraver, baptized was born | ||
| 1573 Alva demands submission of Zealand/Holland | ||
| 1618 Capt John Gilbert patents 1st dredger in Britain | ||
| 1659 Princess Henriette C of Orange-Nassau weds monarch Johan George II | ||
| 1661 1st banknotes in Europe were issued by Bank of Stockholm | Joan of Arc |
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| 1683 Turkish troops under Kara Mustafa attain Vienna | ||
| 1704 John Kay, England, machinist, invented flying shuttle | ||
| 1769 Father Junipero Serra founds Mission San Diego, 1st mission in California | ||
| 1790 U.S. Congress establishes District of Columbia | ||
| 1801 Pope Pius VII & 1st consul Napoleon sign concord | ||
| 1856 Statue of Laurens Jansz Coster unveiled in Haarlem | ||
| 1862 David G Farragut is 1st rear admiral in US Navy | ||
| 1863 Utrecht-Swells railway opens | ||
| 1867 Reinforced concrete was first patented by Joseph Monier of Paris. | ||
| 1872 Roald Amundsen, Norway, explorer, discovered South Pole was born | |
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| 1894 Many negro miners in Alabama killed by striking white miners | ||
| 1894 Treaty of Aoki-Kimberley signed between Japan & England | ||
| 1904 Islands of Manu'a group (Samoa) ceded to US by their chiefs | ||
| 1912 Naval torpedo launched from an airplane patents by B A Fiske | ||
| 1914 Socialist conference in Brussel (Kautsky, Trotski & Rosa Luxemburg) | ||
| 1917 The Bolsheviks began an attempt to seize power in Petrograd but were defeated. Trotsky was arrested and Lenin went into hiding. | ||
| 1918 Nicholas II, the last Russian czar, was murdered together with his family and entourage by the Bolsheviks at Yekaterinburg. | ||
| 1920 China joins the League of Nations | ||
| 1924 Conference over German recovery payments begins in London | ||
| 1926 Jaspar governament asks authority to save Belgian francais | ||
| 1926 National Geographic takes 1st natural-color undersea photos | ||
| 1927 Augusto Sandino begins 5-year war against US occupation of Nicaragua | ||
| 1935 The world's first parking meters were installed in Oklahoma City. | ||
| 1935 1st automatic parking meter in US installed (Oklahoma City, Ok) | ||
| 1936 1st x-ray photo of arterial circulation, Rochester, NY | ||
| 1942 French police arrest 13,152 Jews in Paris | ||
| 1942 Nearly 14,000 Jews were arrested in Paris as part of a German roundup of the Jewish people in France. | ||
| 1945 The U.S. staged the first test of a plutonium weapon, code-named "Trinity," before dawn in the New Mexico desert. | ||
| 1948 The world's first turbine-propeller aircraft, the Vickers Viscount, made its maiden flight. | ||
| 1950 The largest-ever crowd to watch a soccer match, over 199,000, saw Uruguay beat Brazil 2-1 in the World Cup final. | ||
| 1951 King Leopold III, of Belgium, abdicates | ||
| 1956 Karelo-Finnish SSR becomes part of Russian SFSR | ||
| 1956 King Faisal of Iraq begins visit to England | ||
| 1956 Last Ringling Bros, Barnum & Bailey Circus under a canvas tent | ||
| 1965 A seven-mile tunnel through Mont Blanc connecting France and Italy was opened. | ||
| 1969 Apollo 11 was launched on its historic mission to land men on the moon with astronauts Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins aboard. |
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| 1970 Iraq's constitution goes into effect | ||
| 1971 Franco points prince Juan Carlos as deputy in Spain | ||
| 1972 Dimitrios Papadopoulos becomes 269th patriarch of Constantinople | ||
| 1979 Premier/pres al-Bakr of Iraq is succeeded by Saddam Hussein | ||
| 1980 Polish railway workers block railway to Russia | ||
| 1980 Ronald Reagan nominated for President by Republicans in Detroit | ||
| 1982 NASA launches Landsat 4 to thematic map the Earth | ||
| 1982 Sun Myung Moon sentenced to 18 months for tax fraud | ||
| 1983 20 killed in Britain's worst helicopter accident | ||
| 1985 F-86 Sabre sets world aircraft speed record of 1152 kph (716 mph) | ||
| 1990 400 die in a (7.7) earthquake in Philippines | ||
| 1990 Ukraine declares independence | ||
| 1992 Vice President Shankar Dayal Sharma was elected India's ninth president. | Roald Amundsen |
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| 1993 President Lissouba calls emergency rule in Congo-Brazzaville | ||
| 1994 Comet Shoemaker-Levy collides with Jupiter | ||
| 1996 Germano Maccari was convicted of being one of two killers who shot former Italian Prime Minister Aldo Moro in 1978. | ||