On This Day

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July 16 Birthdays



Barbara Stanwyck
MOVIE ACTRESS

BIRTHDAY
July 16, 1907

BIRTHPLACE
Brooklyn, NY

DEATH DATE
Jan 20, 1990 (age 82)

BIRTH SIGN
Cancer




Ginger Rogers
MOVIE ACTRESS

BIRTHDAY
July 16, 1911

BIRTHPLACE
Independence, MO

DEATH DATE
Apr 25, 1995 (age 83)

BIRTH SIGN
Cancer




Phoebe Cates
MOVIE ACTRESS

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!
July 16, 1963

BIRTHPLACE
New York City, NY

AGE
55 years old

BIRTH SIGN
Cancer




Corey Feldman
MOVIE ACTOR

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!
July 16, 1971

BIRTHPLACE
Los Angeles, CA

AGE
47 years old

BIRTH SIGN
Cancer




Will Ferrell
MOVIE ACTOR

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!
July 16, 1967

BIRTHPLACE
Irvine, CA

AGE
52 years old

BIRTH SIGN
Cancer




Orville Redenbacher
ENTREPRENEUR

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!
July 16, 1907

BIRTHPLACE
Brazil, IN

DEATH DATE
Sep 19, 1995 (age 88)

BIRTH SIGN
Cancer




July 16 Deaths




John F. Kennedy Jr.
ENTREPRENEUR

BIRTHDAY
November 25, 1960

BIRTHPLACE
Washington, DC

DEATH DATE
Jul 16, 1999 (age 38)

BIRTH SIGN
Sagittarius




James Gammon
MOVIE ACTOR

BIRTHDAY
April 20, 1940

BIRTHPLACE
Newman, IL

DEATH DATE
Jul 16, 2010 (age 70)

BIRTH SIGN
Taurus




Kitty Wells
COUNTRY SINGER

BIRTHDAY
August 30, 1919

BIRTHPLACE
Nashville, TN

DEATH DATE
Jul 16, 2012 (age 92)

BIRTH SIGN
Virgo

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Johnny Winter
GUITARIST

BIRTHDAY
February 23, 1944

BIRTHPLACE
Beaumont, TX

DEATH DATE
Jul 16, 2014 (age 70)

BIRTH SIGN
Pisces




Harry Chapin
FOLK SINGER

BIRTHDAY
December 7, 1942

BIRTHPLACE
Brooklyn, NY

DEATH DATE
Jul 16, 1981 (age 38)

BIRTH SIGN
Sagittarius




George A. Romero
DIRECTOR

BIRTHDAY
February 4, 1940

BIRTHPLACE
The Bronx, NY

DEATH DATE
Jul 16, 2017 (age 77)

BIRTH SIGN
Aquarius




Mary Todd Lincoln
POLITICAL WIFE

BIRTHDAY
December 13, 1818

BIRTHPLACE
Lexington, KY

DEATH DATE
Jul 16, 1882 (age 63)

BIRTH SIGN
Sagittarius

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Historical Events on July 16


1439  Kissing is banned in England (to stop the Black Death from spreading)

1519  Public debate between Martin Luther and theologian Johann Eck at Pleissenburg Castle in Liepzig, during which Luther denies the divine right of the Pope

Founder of Protestanism
Martin Luther

1661  1st banknotes in Europe are issued by Bank of Stockholm

The first European banknote,
issued by Stockholms Banco of Sweden

1755  John Adams graduates Harvard

2nd US President
John Adams

1782  Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's opera "Die Entführung aus dem Serail" premieres in Vienna with Mozart conducting

Classical Musician and Composer
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

1790  Congress declares the city of Washington in the District of Columbia, the permanent capital of the United States

1862  David Farragut is 1st Rear Admiral in US Navy

US Civil War Admiral
David Farragut

1867  D.R. Averill of Ohio patents ready-mixed paint

1867  Joseph Monier patents reinforced concrete

1894  Many negro miners in Alabama killed by striking white miners

1920  China joins the League of Nations

1924  Conference over German recovery payments begins in London

1925  The first parliament in Iraq opened by King Feisal in Baghdad

1935  First automatic parking meter in the United States is installed in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma

1936  1st x-ray photo of arterial circulation, Rochester, NY

1940  Adolf Hitler orders preparations for the invasion of Britain (Operation Sealion)

Dictator of Nazi Germany
Adolf Hitler

1941  100°F (38°C) highest temperature ever recorded in Seattle, Washington

1942  French police arrest 13,152 Jews in Paris

1942  Jews transported from Holland to extermination camp

1945  1st test detonation of an atomic bomb, Trinity Site, Alamogordo, New Mexico as part of the US Manhattan Project

'Calutron Girls' monitoring a mass spectrometer during the Manhattan Project.
Gladys Owens, in the foreground, did not know what she was involved with
until seeing this picture on a tour fifty years later.

1945  Cruiser Indianapolis leaves San Francisco with atom bomb

1946  US court martial sentences 46 members of the SS to death (Battle of Bulge crimes) in Dachau

1951  Novel "Catcher in Rye" by J. D. Salinger published by Little Brown and Company

Novelist
J. D. Salinger

1956  Last Ringling Bros, Barnum & Bailey Circus under a canvas tent

1957  US Marine Major John Glenn sets transcontinental speed record (03:28:08)

John Glenn, the first American to orbit the Earth,
getting into his spacecraft Freedom 7 in 1962

1964  Republican convention selects Barry Goldwater as presidential candidate

1969  Apollo 11 launched, carrying 1st men to land on Moon

Buzz Aldrin's bootprint, one of the first steps taken on the Moon

1970  Iraq's constitution goes into effect

1972  Smokey Robinson & Miracles final live performance

1973  During Watergate hearings, Butterfield reveals existence of tapes

1976  Rock duo Loggins & Messina break-up after 6 years

1979  Premier/pres al-Bakr of Iraq is succeeded by Saddam Hussein

Iraqi President and Dictator
Saddam Hussein

[1980  [b]Ronald Reagan nominated for US President by Republicans in Detroit

US President & Actor
Ronald Reagan

1982  George P. Shultz is sworn in as the 60th US Secretary of State

1982  CDC report on AIDS symptoms in three hemophiliacs

1987  Great Britain performs nuclear Test at Nevada Test Site

1990  Civil trial by parents of Suicide victims against Judas Priest begins

1990  NYC's Empire State Building catches fire-no fatalities

1994  Comet Shoemaker-Levy 1st collides with Jupiter (collisions continue until 22 July)

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1999  John F. Kennedy Jr., his wife Carolyn Bessette Kennedy, and sister-in-law Lauren Bessette are killed in a plane crash off the coast of Martha's Vineyard. The Piper Saratoga aircraft was piloted by Kennedy.

Publisher and Lawyer
John F. Kennedy Jr.

2004  Martha Stewart is sentenced to five months in prison plus five months in home confinement for lying to federal investigators

Business Magnate and TV Personality
Martha Stewart

2014  Bashar al-Assad is sworn in for a third term as President of Syria

President of Syria
Bashar al-Assad

2014  Death toll within Gaza surpasses 200 people following air strikes by Israel

2014  Hamas and Islamic Jihad offer Israel a 10-year truce with 10 conditions, which include lifting the blockade and the release of prisoners; it is rejected

2014  Israel intensifies strikes on Gaza

2016  Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump announces Indiana governor Mike Pence as his Vice Presidential running mate

45th US President, Businessman and TV Personality
Donald Trump


48th Vice President of the United States
Mike Pence

2018  US President Donald Trump appears to accept the word of Russian President Vladimir Putin over US intelligence services about Russian meddling in the 2016 US election, in an interview after the two leader's Helsinki Summit

Russian President
Vladimir Putin

2018  12 new moons discovered orbiting Jupiter bringing planet's moon total to 79, by scientists at Carnegie Institution for Science

2018  Historic cemetery (1878-1911) announced discovered near Houston, Texas, containing 95 remains though to be African Americans forced into labour