Tuesday, July 16, 2013

This will be 197th day of the year and 168 days will remain in the year.

Hebrew calendar — 9 Av 5773
Chinese calendar — the 9th day of the 6th month of 4711 (Kui Si)
Islamic calendar — (note)

July 16 Birthdays

Ginger Rogers
1911–1995; Singer actress born in Independence, Missouri.

Andrea del Sarto
painter (1486)

Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot
painter (1796)

Mary Baker Eddy
founder, Christian Science Church (1821)

Ida B. Wells-Barnett
journalist, activist (1862)

Roald Amundsen
Norwegian polar explorer (1872)

"Shoeless" Joe Jackson
baseball player (1887)

Trygve Lie
first secretary-general of the United Nations (1896)

Pinchas Zukerman
violinist and conductor (1948)

July 2013

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	1	2	3	4	5	6
7	8	9	10	11	12	13
14	15	16	17	18	19	20
21	22	23	24	25	26	27
28	29	30	31

July 16 in History

1790

The District of Columbia was established as the seat of the United States government.

1918

Russia's Czar Nicholas II and his family were executed by the Bolsheviks.

1935

The first parking meters were installed in Oklahoma City.

1945

The first atomic bomb was tested in Alamogordo, N.M.

1951

J. D. Salinger's novel Catcher in the Rye was published.

1969

Apollo 11 took off on the first manned flight to the moon.

1979

Saddam Hussein became president of Iraq.

1999

John F. Kennedy, Jr., his wife Carolyn Bessette, and her sister Lauren, died in a plane crash near Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts.

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Note: Dates in the Islamic calendar are provided for planning purposes only, and calculated with the hdate Islamic calendar program for moonrise in Boston, Masschusetts. Depending on your location and other factors, this result may differ from actual religious observances by one day. Please consult your local religious authority for any religious determinations of hejiric date.