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16 Jul 1054
Michael Caerularius excommunicated of Constantinople
16 Jul 1054
Three Roman legates fracture relations between Western and Eastern Christian churches by placing invalid Papal Bull of Excommunication on altar of Hagia Sophia during liturgy. Often dated start of the East-West Schism.
16 Jul 1099
Crusaders herd Jews of Jerusalem into a synagogue & set it afire
16 Jul 1212
Battle of Las Navas de Tolosa end of Muslim power in Spain
16 Jul 1251
The Virgin Mary gives Simon Stock a Brown Scapular (legend)
16 Jul 1338
The six Electors of the Holy Roman Empire signed the Agreement of Rhense confirming Emperor Louis IV.
16 Jul 1439
Kissing is banned in England (to stop the Black Death from spreading)
16 Jul 1465
Battle at Montlhry between Louis XI and the League of the Public Weal
16 Jul 1618
Captain John Gilbert patents 1st dredger in Britain
16 Jul 1683
Turkish troops under Kara Mustafa reach Vienna
16 Jul 1683
ManchuChinese Qing Dynasty naval forces under commander Shi Lang defeat the Kingdom of Tungning in the Battle of Penghu near the Pescadores Islands.
16 Jul 1790
Congress declares the city of Washington in the District of Columbia the permanent capital of the United States
16 Jul 1798
US Public Health Service forms & US Marine Hospital authorized
16 Jul 1809
La Paz Bolivia declares its independence from the Spanish Crown and forms the Junta Tuitiva led by Pedro Domingo Murillo the 1st independent government in Spanish America
16 Jul 1856
Statue of Laurens Jansz Coster unveiled in Haarlem
16 Jul 1857
Sir Henry Havelock arrives at Battle of Cawnpore
16 Jul 1867
Amstel Hotel the dignified old lady opens in Amsterdam
16 Jul 1867
D.R. Averill of Ohio patents ready-mixed paint
16 Jul 1880
Dr. Emily Stowe becomes the first woman licenced to practise medicine in Canada.
16 Jul 1883
Wimbledon Mens Tennis William Renshaw wins third straight Wimbledon title beats twin brother Ernest Renshaw 2-6 6-3 6-3 4-6 6-3
16 Jul 1888
Wimbledon Mens Tennis 3-time runner-up Ernest Renshaw wins his lone major title beats defending champion Herbert Lawford 6-3 7-5 6-0
16 Jul 1894
Many negro miners in Alabama killed by striking white miners
16 Jul 1894
Treaty of Aoki-Kimberley signed between Japan & England
16 Jul 1895
Archie MacLaren completes cricket 424 for Lancs v Somerset at Taunton
16 Jul 1900
A report appears in London that all foreigners in Peking China have been massacred. Although soon exposed as false the report helps mobilize support for relief of foreigners
16 Jul 1900
Russia launch an offensive against the Chinese in Manchuria
16 Jul 1901
The Fawcett Commission headed by Millicent Fawcett is established as a result of an outcry against the treatment of Afrikaners in concentration camps during the South African War
16 Jul 1902
Test Cricket debut of K S Ranjitsinhji v Australia at Old Trafford
16 Jul 1904
Islands of Manua group (Samoa) ceded to US by their chiefs
16 Jul 1909
Det & Wash play longest scoreless game in AL history-18 innings
16 Jul 1912
Naval torpedo launched from an airplane patents by B A Fiske
16 Jul 1914
Socialist conference in Brussels (Kautsky Trotski & Rosa Luxemburg)
16 Jul 1920
15th Davis Cup USA beats Australasia in Auckland (5-0)
16 Jul 1920
Gen Amos Fries appointed 1st US army chemical warfare chief
16 Jul 1920
Ruth sets season home run record with 30 en route to 54
16 Jul 1924
Conference over German recovery payments begins in London
16 Jul 1924
NY Giants George Kelly is 1st to hit HRs in 6 cons games
16 Jul 1925
The first parliament in Iraq opened by King Feisal in Baghdad
16 Jul 1926
Jaspar government asks authority to save Belgian franc
16 Jul 1926
National Geographic takes 1st natural-color undersea photos
16 Jul 1927
Augusto Sandino begins 5 year war against US occupation of Nicaragua
16 Jul 1935
First automatic parking meter in the United States is installed in Oklahoma City Oklahoma
16 Jul 1936
1st x-ray photo of arterial circulation Rochester NY
16 Jul 1936
NY Giants are 10 games back in NL & go on to win pennant
16 Jul 1938
21st PGA Championship Paul Runyan at Shawnee CC Shawnee-on-Del Pa
16 Jul 1941
100F (38C) highest temperature ever recorded in Seattle Washington
16 Jul 1942
Jews transported from Holland to extermination camp
16 Jul 1944
Dodgers score 8 unearned runs against Braves to win 8-5 & break their 16-game losing streak they will lose another 5 in a row
16 Jul 1945
Australian Services win 3rd Victory Test Cricket by 4 wickets
16 Jul 1945
Cruiser Indianapolis leaves San Francisco with atom bomb
16 Jul 1946
Attempt made to recall Mayor Lapham (1st time in San Francisco history)
16 Jul 1946
US court martial sentences 46 members of the SS to death (Battle of Bulge crimes) in Dachau
16 Jul 1947
Bobo Newsom wins 200th game 1st as a Yankee & Yanks 18th straight In nightcap Vic Rashi extends streak to 19
16 Jul 1950
Single day 16 team HR record set at 37 (NL-25 AL-12)
16 Jul 1950
FIFA World Cup Final Estdio do Maracan Rio de Janeiro Brazil Alcides Ghiggia scores a 79th minute winner as Uruguay beats Brazil 2-1
16 Jul 1951
Len Hutton scores his 100th 100 Yorkshire v Surrey at The Oval
16 Jul 1953
KROC (now KTTC) TV channel 10 in Rochester MN (NBC) 1st broadcast
16 Jul 1955
Golden Horseshoe Revue 1st of 50000 performances Disneyland
16 Jul 1955
Juan Manuel Fangio of Argentina clinches his third Formula 1 World Drivers Championship by finishing 2nd to fellow Mercedes driver Sterling Moss in the British Grand Prix at Aintree
16 Jul 1956
Detroit Tigers & Briggs Stadium sold for then record 5.5 million
16 Jul 1956
Karelo-Finnish SSR becomes part of Russian SFSR
16 Jul 1956
Last Ringling Bros Barnum & Bailey Circus under a canvas tent
16 Jul 1960
205000 (record sports attend) see Brazil-Uruguay World Cup soccer
16 Jul 1960
George Crowe sets record of 12 pinch hit HRs with a runner on
16 Jul 1961
Ralph Boston of US sets then long jump record at 27 2
16 Jul 1961
48th Tour de France won by Jacques Anquetil of France
16 Jul 1963
Amazon river carries 190000 m3sec of water (record)
16 Jul 1964
Republican convention selects Barry Goldwater as presidential candidate
16 Jul 1965
Mont Blanc Road tunnel between France & Italy opens
16 Jul 1966
Half a Sixpence closes at Broadhurst Theater NYC after 512 performances
16 Jul 1966
Number of banned persons in South Africa totals 936 the individuals are banned under various laws most prominently the Suppression of Communism and Riotous Assembly Acts
16 Jul 1966
Nigeria becomes the first Anglophone independent state in Africa to become an associate member of European Economic Community
16 Jul 1967
Prison brawl ignites barracks killing 37 (Jay Florida)
16 Jul 1970
Reds spoil Pirates debut in Pittsburghs Three Rivers Stadium 3-2
16 Jul 1970
9th British Commonwealth Games open in Edinburgh Scotland
16 Jul 1971
The Social Democratic and Labour Party (SDLP) withdraw from Stormont (North Ireland Parliament) after no inquiry is announced into the shooting dead of Seamus Cusack and Desmond Beattie
16 Jul 1972
Dimitrios Papadopoulos becomes 269th patriarch of Constantinople
16 Jul 1972
Smokey Robinson & Miracles final live performance
16 Jul 1973
During Watergate hearings Butterfield reveals existence of tapes
16 Jul 1975
Major League Baseball owners re-elect Commissioner Bowie Kuhn to a 7-year term
16 Jul 1976
Rock duo Loggins & Messina break-up after 6 years
16 Jul 1977
Janelle Commissiong of Trinidad & Tobago crowned 26th Miss Universe
16 Jul 1980
Polish railway workers block railway to Russia
16 Jul 1982
George P. Shultz is sworn in as the 60th US Secretary of State
16 Jul 1982
NASA launches Landsat 4 to thematic map the Earth
16 Jul 1982
Sun Myung Moon sentenced to 18 months for tax fraud
16 Jul 1982
CDC report on AIDS symptoms in three hemophiliacs
16 Jul 1983
Sikorsky S-61 disaster A helicopter crashes off the Isles of Scilly causing 20 fatalities in Britains worst helicopter accident
16 Jul 1985
56th All Star Baseball Game NL wins 6-1 at Humphrey Metrodome Minn
16 Jul 1985
Bill to abolish Greater London Council receives royal assent
16 Jul 1987
Don Mattingly hits his 4th grand slam of season & ties AL record of homers in 6 straight games (on way to tie major league record of 8)
16 Jul 1988
Florence Joyner runs 100m in womens world record 10.49 seconds
16 Jul 1988
Jackie Joyner-Kersee sets womens heptathlete record of 7215 pts
16 Jul 1988
San Antonio (Texas League) beats Jackson 1-0 in 26 innings
16 Jul 1989
South Africas largest labour federation the Congress of South African Trade Unions holds its third annual congress and intensifies its campaign against apartheid
16 Jul 1990
Bridgette LeAnn Wilson 17 of Oregon 8th crowned Miss Teen USA
16 Jul 1990
Civil trial by parents of Suicide victims against Judas Priest begins
16 Jul 1990
NYCs Empire State Building catches fire-no fatalities
16 Jul 1990
Rick Dees Into the Night premieres on ABC-TV
16 Jul 1993
President Lissouba calls emergency rule in Congo-Brazzaville
16 Jul 1993
S van Ruysdaels Winter Landscape sold for 705500 in London
16 Jul 1993
SF outfielder Darren Lewis sets record of 267 consecutive errorless games
16 Jul 1994
Sisters Rosensweig closes at Barrymore Theater NYC after 556 performances
16 Jul 1994
3 tenors-Placid Domingo Luciano Parvoti Jose Carreras perform in LA
16 Jul 1994
Baseball Night in America premieres (no Saturday day games)
16 Jul 1994
Comet Shoemaker-Levy 1st collides with Jupiter (collisions continue until 22 July)
16 Jul 1994
Shreveport Pirates lose first CFL home game 35-34 to the Toronto Argonauts at Independence Stadium in Shreveport Louisiana
16 Jul 1994
Spanish fishing boats sink a French fishing boat over fishing rights
16 Jul 1995
Buttons on Broadway closes at Ambassador Theater NYC after 40 performances
16 Jul 1995
Chronicles of a Death Foretold closes at Plymouth NYC after 55 performances
16 Jul 1995
Senior Players Championship Mens Golf TPC of Michigan J C Snead wins his lone career major title as he birdies first playoff hole against Jack Nicklaus
16 Jul 1995
US Open Womens Golf The Broadmoor Annika Srenstam of Sweden wins her first of 10 LPGA major titles with a 1 shot victory over Meg Mallon
16 Jul 2000
Senior Players Championship Mens Golf TPC of Michigan Raymond Floyd wins his 4th and final Champions Tour major by 1 stroke from Larry Nelson and Dana Quigley
16 Jul 2004
Millennium Park considered the first and most ambitious architectural project in the early 21st century for Chicago is opened to the public by Mayor Richard M. Daley.
16 Jul 2006
14th ESPY Awards Lance Armstrong Annika Srenstam win
16 Jul 2007
An earthquake of magnitude 6.8 and aftershock of 6.6 occurs off the Niigata coast Japan killing 8 people with at least 800 injured and damaging a nuclear power plant. See Chetsu offshore earthquake.
16 Jul 2008
79th All Star Baseball Game AL wins 4-3 at Yankee Stadium New York
16 Jul 2008
Malaysian policitian Anwar Ibrahim is arrested on sodomy charges in Malaysia
16 Jul 2011
NASAs Dawn space probe enters orbit around the protoplanet Vesta
16 Jul 2013
27 children are killed and 25 are hospitalized after eating lunch contaminated with insecticide in India
16 Jul 2013
84th All Star Baseball Game AL wins 3-0 at Citi Field New York
16 Jul 2014
Death toll within Gaza surpasses 200 people following air strikes by Israel
16 Jul 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
16 Jul 2015
Scientists reveal 1st close-up pictures of Pluto sent by the New Horizons probe
16 Jul 2015
Shootings in Chattanooga at a US military recruitment centre and a naval reserve training center kill 5 and injure others
16 Jul 2017
BBC announces first ever female Doctor Who will be played by Jodie Whittaker
16 Jul 2017
US Open Womens Golf Trump National GC Park Sung-hyun wins by 2 shots from fellow South Korean Choi Hye-jin
16 Jul 2017
Senior Players Championship Mens Golf Caves Valley GC Scott McCarron wins his lone career major title by 1 stroke from Brandt Jobe and Germanys Bernhard Langer
16 Jul 2018
12 new moons discovered orbiting Jupiter bringing planets moon total to 79 by scientists at Carnegie Institution for Science
16 Jul 2018
Historic cemetery (1878-1911) announced discovered near Houston Texas containing 95 remains though to be African Americans forced into labour
16 Jul 1895
Lancashire batsman Archie MacLaren scores the first-ever quadruple-hundred (424) in first-class cricket against Somerset at Taunton
16 Jul 1896
Indian born K S Ranjitsinhji debuts for England v Australia in 2nd Test at Old Trafford first Indian to play Test cricket
16 Jul 1902
John McGraw becomes manager of MLB New York Giants 30 year tenure begins (-32)
16 Jul 1961
48th Tour de France Jacques Anquetil of France scores his second Tour general classification category title
16 Jul 2006
Senior Players Championship Mens Golf TPC of Michigan Bobby Wadkins his lone career major title by 1 stroke from Jim Thorpe
16 Jul 1054
Beginning of the Great Schism between Western and Eastern churches when Roman Cardinal Humbert issues bull of excommunication against Cerularius Patriarch of Constantinople on the altar of the Hagia Sophia Constantinople
16 Jul 1212
Battle of Las Navas de Tolosa [Battle of Al-Uqab] combined Christian army defeats Almohad Muslim force in a turning point for Muslim power on Iberian peninsula
16 Jul 1902
John McGraw officially becomes manager of MLB New York Giants 30 year tenure begins (-32)
16 Jul 1927
Augusto Csar Sandino begins 5 year war against US occupation of Nicaragua
16 Jul 1990
400 die in a (7.7) earthquake in the Philippines
16 Jul 2008
Malaysian politician Anwar Ibrahim is arrested on sodomy charges in Malaysia
16 Jul 1953
KROC (now KTTC) TV channel 10 in Rochester Minnesota (NBC) 1st broadcast
16 Jul 1960
205000 (record sports attend) see Brazil-Uruguay World Cup soccer [1]
16 Jul 1967
British rock band The Who begin 1st full US tour appearing at the Fillmore Auditorium in San Francisco California and then going coast-to-coast opening for Hermans Hermits
16 Jul 1967
American pop-rock group The Monkees perform at Forest Hills Tennis Stadium in Queens New York with psychedelic rock Jimi Hendrix Experience is opening act
16 Jul 1909
MLB Detroit Tigers and Washington Senators play longest scoreless game in AL history - 18 innings at Bennett Field in Detroit Michigan [1]
16 Jul 1967
American pop-rock group The Monkees perform at Forest Hills Tennis Stadium in Queens New York with psychedelic rock Jimi Hendrix Experience as opening act
16 Jul 2008
79th All Star Baseball Game AL wins 4-3 at Yankee Stadium New York City
16 Jul 1054
The Great Schism between Western and Eastern churches begins when Roman Cardinal Humbert issues a bull of excommunication against Cerularius Patriarch of Constantinople on the altar of the Hagia Sophia in Constantinople
16 Jul 1439
Kissing is banned in England to stop the spread of the Black Death
16 Jul 1615
Night time naval battle off the coast of Peru between Dutch fleet led by Joris Spilbergen and Spanish fleet carrying silver two Spanish ships sunk [1]
16 Jul 1809
La Paz Bolivia declares its independence from the Spanish Crown and forms the Junta Tuitiva led by Pedro Domingo Murillo the first independent government in Spanish America
16 Jul 1988
Landmark Japanese animated cyberpunk manga film Akira released directed by Katsuhiro Otomo [1]
16 Jul 2023
Highest temperature ever recorded in China of 52.2 C (126 F) at Sanbao township in Xinjiangs Turpan Depression [1]
16 Jul 2023
Jam rock band Dead & Company an outgrowth of the Grateful Dead plays the final show of its final concert tour at Oracle Park in San Francisco California
16 Jul 2023
Persian Gulf International Airport on Irans southwestern coast hits a heat index high of 152 degrees Fahrenheit (66.7 C) at 1230 p.m. beyond what humans can endure [1]
16 Jul 1618
Captain John Gilbert patents first dredger in Britain
16 Jul 1894
Many African American miners in Alabama killed by striking white miners
16 Jul 1894
Treaty of Aoki-Kimberley signed between Japan and England
16 Jul 1895
Lancashire batsman Archie MacLaren scores the first quadruple-hundred (424) in first-class cricket against Somerset at Taunton
16 Jul 1926
National Geographic takes first natural-color undersea photos
16 Jul 1936
First X-ray photo of arterial circulation in Rochester NY
16 Jul 1936
NY Giants are 10 games back in NL and go on to win pennant
16 Jul 1956
Last Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus under a canvas tent
16 Jul 1967
Prison brawl ignites barracks in Jay Florida killing 37
16 Jul 1970
Cincinnati Reds spoil Pirates debut in Pittsburghs new Three Rivers Stadium 3-2
16 Jul 1976
Rock duo Loggins & Messina break up after 6 years
16 Jul 1982
NASA launches Landsat 4 to create thematic maps of Earth
16 Jul 1993
S. van Ruysdaels Winter Landscape sold for 705500 in London
16 Jul 1994
Comet Shoemaker-Levy first collides with Jupiter (collisions continue until 22 July)
16 Jul 1994
Shreveport Pirates lose first CFL home game 35-34 to the Toronto Argonauts at Independence Stadium in Shreveport Louisiana
16 Jul 2015
Scientists reveal the first close-up pictures of Pluto sent by the New Horizons probe
16 Jul 2015
Shootings in Chattanooga at a US military recruitment centre and a naval reserve training center kill five and injure others
16 Jul 2017
BBC announces first-ever female Doctor in Doctor Who will be played by Jodie Whittaker
16 Jul 2024
Paraguay carries out the largest cocaine bust in its history with Operation Sweetness netting four tons inside a shipment of sugar [1]
16 Jul 1573
Alva demands submission of Zealand and Holland
16 Jul 1615
Nighttime naval battle off the coast of Peru between a Dutch fleet led by Joris Spilbergen and a Spanish fleet carrying silver two Spanish ships sink [1]
16 Jul 1798
US Public Health Service forms and US Marine Hospital is authorized
16 Jul 1809
La Paz Bolivia declares its independence from the Spanish Crown and forms the Junta Tuitiva led by Pedro Domingo Murillo the first independent government in Spanish America
16 Jul 1857
Sir Henry Havelock arrives at the Battle of Cawnpore
16 Jul 1867
Amstel Hotel the dignified old lady opens in Amsterdam
16 Jul 1896
Indian-born K. S. Ranjitsinhji debuts for England against Australia in the second Test at Old Trafford he is the first Indian to play Test cricket
16 Jul 1902
John McGraw officially becomes manager of MLB New York Giants 30-year tenure begins (-32)
16 Jul 1912
Naval torpedo launched from an airplane patented by B. A. Fiske
16 Jul 1914
Socialist conference in Brussels (Kautsky Trotski and Rosa Luxemburg)
16 Jul 1920
General Amos Fries is appointed as the first U.S. Army Chemical Warfare Service Chief
16 Jul 1924
New York Giants George Kelly is the first to hit home runs in six consecutive games
16 Jul 1927
Augusto Csar Sandino begins 5-year war against US occupation of Nicaragua
16 Jul 1936
The New York Giants are 10 games back in the NL and go on to win the pennant
16 Jul 1941
Joe DiMaggio goes 3 for 4 hitting in his 56th consecutive game
16 Jul 1942
Police take Jewish citizens (2573 men 5165 women and 3625 children) from their homes in Paris and incarcerate them at the Vlodrome dHiver stadium to process them for deportation
16 Jul 1944
Dodgers score 8 unearned runs against Braves to win 8-5 and break their 16-game losing streak they will lose another 5 in a row
16 Jul 1945
Australian Services win third Victory Test Cricket by four wickets
16 Jul 1945
Cruiser Indianapolis leaves San Francisco with atomic bomb
16 Jul 1946
A US court martial sentences 46 members of the SS to death for Battle of the Bulge crimes in Dachau
16 Jul 1946
Attempt made to recall Mayor Lapham (first time in San Francisco history)
16 Jul 1947
Bobo Newsom wins his 200th game his first as a Yankee and the Yankees 18th straight in the nightcap Vic Raschi extends the streak to 19
16 Jul 1948
MLB manager merry-go-round Philadelphia Phillies - Ben Chapman out Eddie Sawyer in NY Giants - Mel Ott out Leo Durocher in Brooklyn Dodgers - Durocher out Burt Shotton in
16 Jul 1950
FIFA World Cup Final Estdio do Maracan Rio de Janeiro Brazil Alcides Ghiggia scores a 79th minute winner as Uruguay defeats Brazil 2-1
16 Jul 1950
Single-day 16-team home run record set at 37 (NL-25 AL-12)
16 Jul 1951
Len Hutton scores his 100th century Yorkshire vs. Surrey at The Oval
16 Jul 1951
Leopold III King of the Belgians abdicates in favor of his son Baudouin I
16 Jul 1953
KROC (now KTTC) TV channel 10 in Rochester Minnesota (NBC) broadcasts for the first time
16 Jul 1956
Detroit Tigers and Briggs Stadium are sold for a then-record 5.5 million
16 Jul 1961
American Ralph Boston sets the long jump world record with a leap of 27 feet 2 inches
16 Jul 1969
Minnesota Twins Rod Carew steals home for his career best 7th time of the season against Chicago
16 Jul 1972
Smokey Robinson and the Miracles give their final live performance in Washington DC
16 Jul 1987
New York Yankees Don Mattingly hits his 4th grand slam of season & ties AL record of homers in 6 straight games (on way to tie major league record of 8)
16 Jul 1988
Carl Lewis runs a wind-assisted 100m in 9.78 sec
16 Jul 1988
Jackie Joyner-Kersee sets the womens heptathlon world record with 7215 points
16 Jul 1990
Parliament of Ukraine adopts Declaration of State Sovereignty laying the groundwork for independence from the Soviet Union
16 Jul 2003
11th ESPY Awards Lance Armstrong Serena Williams win
16 Jul 2017
Wimbledon Mens Tennis Roger Federer beats Marin ili 6-3 6-1 6-4 for a record 8th Wimbledon mens title
16 Jul 2025
At least 61 people die in fire at the recently opened five-story Al-Kornish Hypermarket and restaurant in Kut Iraq
16 Jul 2025
At least 63 people die in monsoon torrential rains in Punjab Pakistan within 24 hours [1]
16 Jul 2025
Members of rock band Janes Addiction file dueling lawsuits over singer Perry Farrells onstage scuffle with guitarist Dave Navarro in Boston which resulted in cancellation of their reunion tour and a planned album
16 Jul 2025
One of three known Rosebud props from the 1941 film Citizen Kane sells at auction for 14.75M [1]
16 Jul 2025
The Israeli Air Force bombs the Syrian Defense Ministry headquarters and areas near the presidential palace in Damascus [1]