July 16
Today is the 197th day of 2021, there are 168 days left in the year.
1790 - The District of Columbia was established as the seat of the federal government.
1909 - The Audi auto company was founded in Zwickau, Germany, by August Horch.
1918 - Russia's Czar Nicholas II and his family were executed by the Bolsheviks.
1935 - The nation's first parking meters were installed in Oklahoma City.
1945 - The first atomic bomb was tested in Alamogordo, New Mexico; the same day, the heavy cruiser USS Indianapolis left Mare Island Naval Shipyard in California on a secret mission to deliver key components of the atomic bomb to Tinian Island in the Marianas.
1951 - J.D. Salinger's novel Catcher in the Rye was published.
1957 - Marine Maj. John Glenn set a transcontinental speed record when he flew a jet from California to New York in 3 hours, 23 minutes and 8 seconds.
1964 - As he accepted the Republican presidential nomination in San Francisco, Barry M. Goldwater declared that “extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice” and that “moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.”
1969 - Apollo 11 blasted off on the first manned mission to the moon.
1973 - Former White House aide Alexander P. Butterfield publicly revealed the existence of President Richard Nixon's secret taping system during the Senate Watergate hearings.
1979 - Saddam Hussein became president of Iraq.
1980 - Ronald Reagan won the Republican presidential nomination at the party's convention in Detroit.
1994 - The first of 21 pieces of comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 smashed into Jupiter, to the joy of astronomers awaiting the celestial fireworks.
1999 - John F. Kennedy Jr., his wife Carolyn Bessette, and her sister Lauren, died when their plane crashed into the Atlantic Ocean near Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts.
2002 - The Irish Republican Army issued an unprecedented apology for the deaths of “noncombatants” over 30 years of violence in Northern Ireland.
2004 - Martha Stewart was sentenced to five months in prison and five months of home confinement by a federal judge for lying about a stock sale.
2008 - Florida resident Casey Anthony, whose 2-year-old daughter, Caylee, had been missing a month, was arrested on charges of child neglect, making false official statements and obstructing a criminal investigation. (Casey Anthony was later acquitted at trial of murdering Caylee, whose skeletal remains were found in December 2008; she was convicted of lying to police.)
2015 - A jury in Centennial, Colorado, convicted James Holmes of 165 counts of murder, attempted murder and other charges in the 2012 Aurora movie theater rampage that left 12 people dead.
2015 - A gunman unleashed a barrage of fire at a recruiting center and another U.S. military site a few miles apart in Chattanooga, Tennessee, killing four Marines and a sailor before he was shot to death by police; authorities identified the gunman as Kuwaiti-born Muhammad Youssef Abdulazeez of Tennessee.
2016 - Republican presidential nominee-apparent Donald Trump formally introduced his running mate, Mike Pence, during an event in New York, hailing the Indiana governor as his “first choice” and his “partner in the campaign” a day after announcing the selection on Twitter.
2020 - The coronavirus surged in hot spots around the country; Florida reported nearly 14,000 new cases. Georgia Republican Gov. Brian Kemp sued the city of Atlanta over the city’s COVID-19 restrictions, including the requirement to wear masks in public; Kemp said local governments couldn’t impose measures that were more or less restrictive than statewide executive orders, which didn’t require masks. (Kemp dropped the lawsuit in August.)
Birthdays
25 - Luke Hemmings (singer)
27 - Mark Idelicato (actor)
30 - Alexandra Shipp (actress)
31 - James Maslow (actor/singer)
34 - AnnaLynne McCord (actress)
38 - Katrina Kaif (actress)
42 - Jayma Mays (actress)
45 - Bobby Lashley (professional wrestler)
50 - Corey Feldman (actor)
53 - Barry Sanders (football player)
54 - Jonathan Adams (actor)
54 - Will Ferrell (actor/comedian)
58 - Paul Hipp (actor)
58 - Phoebe Cates (actress)
63 - Michael Flatley (dancer)
64 - Faye Grant (actress)
73 - Ruben Blades (actor)
78 - Jimmy Johnson (football coach/sportscaster)
79 - Margaret Court (tennis player)
82 - William Bell (singer)
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Today in Sports History - July 16
1902 - John McGraw becomes manager of the New York Giants, a position he would hold for the next 30 years.
1950 - Uruguay defeated Brazil 2-1 in Rio de Janeiro to win the World Cup. A crowd of 199,854 people were on hand to witness the match, the largest recorded crowd in sports history.
1964 - Little League Baseball Incorporated was granted a Federal Charter unanimously by the United States Senate and House of Representatives.
1970 - The Pittsburgh Pirates played their first game at Three Rivers Stadium.
1985 - The MLB All-Star Game became the first program broadcast on TV in stereo sound.
2017 - Roger Federer wins a record eighth men's Wimbledon championship.
Today is the 197th day of 2021, there are 168 days left in the year.
1790 - The District of Columbia was established as the seat of the federal government.
1909 - The Audi auto company was founded in Zwickau, Germany, by August Horch.
1918 - Russia's Czar Nicholas II and his family were executed by the Bolsheviks.
1935 - The nation's first parking meters were installed in Oklahoma City.
1945 - The first atomic bomb was tested in Alamogordo, New Mexico; the same day, the heavy cruiser USS Indianapolis left Mare Island Naval Shipyard in California on a secret mission to deliver key components of the atomic bomb to Tinian Island in the Marianas.
1951 - J.D. Salinger's novel Catcher in the Rye was published.
1957 - Marine Maj. John Glenn set a transcontinental speed record when he flew a jet from California to New York in 3 hours, 23 minutes and 8 seconds.
1964 - As he accepted the Republican presidential nomination in San Francisco, Barry M. Goldwater declared that “extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice” and that “moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.”
1969 - Apollo 11 blasted off on the first manned mission to the moon.
1973 - Former White House aide Alexander P. Butterfield publicly revealed the existence of President Richard Nixon's secret taping system during the Senate Watergate hearings.
1979 - Saddam Hussein became president of Iraq.
1980 - Ronald Reagan won the Republican presidential nomination at the party's convention in Detroit.
1994 - The first of 21 pieces of comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 smashed into Jupiter, to the joy of astronomers awaiting the celestial fireworks.
1999 - John F. Kennedy Jr., his wife Carolyn Bessette, and her sister Lauren, died when their plane crashed into the Atlantic Ocean near Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts.
2002 - The Irish Republican Army issued an unprecedented apology for the deaths of “noncombatants” over 30 years of violence in Northern Ireland.
2004 - Martha Stewart was sentenced to five months in prison and five months of home confinement by a federal judge for lying about a stock sale.
2008 - Florida resident Casey Anthony, whose 2-year-old daughter, Caylee, had been missing a month, was arrested on charges of child neglect, making false official statements and obstructing a criminal investigation. (Casey Anthony was later acquitted at trial of murdering Caylee, whose skeletal remains were found in December 2008; she was convicted of lying to police.)
2015 - A jury in Centennial, Colorado, convicted James Holmes of 165 counts of murder, attempted murder and other charges in the 2012 Aurora movie theater rampage that left 12 people dead.
2015 - A gunman unleashed a barrage of fire at a recruiting center and another U.S. military site a few miles apart in Chattanooga, Tennessee, killing four Marines and a sailor before he was shot to death by police; authorities identified the gunman as Kuwaiti-born Muhammad Youssef Abdulazeez of Tennessee.
2016 - Republican presidential nominee-apparent Donald Trump formally introduced his running mate, Mike Pence, during an event in New York, hailing the Indiana governor as his “first choice” and his “partner in the campaign” a day after announcing the selection on Twitter.
2020 - The coronavirus surged in hot spots around the country; Florida reported nearly 14,000 new cases. Georgia Republican Gov. Brian Kemp sued the city of Atlanta over the city’s COVID-19 restrictions, including the requirement to wear masks in public; Kemp said local governments couldn’t impose measures that were more or less restrictive than statewide executive orders, which didn’t require masks. (Kemp dropped the lawsuit in August.)
Birthdays
25 - Luke Hemmings (singer)
27 - Mark Idelicato (actor)
30 - Alexandra Shipp (actress)
31 - James Maslow (actor/singer)
34 - AnnaLynne McCord (actress)
38 - Katrina Kaif (actress)
42 - Jayma Mays (actress)
45 - Bobby Lashley (professional wrestler)
50 - Corey Feldman (actor)
53 - Barry Sanders (football player)
54 - Jonathan Adams (actor)
54 - Will Ferrell (actor/comedian)
58 - Paul Hipp (actor)
58 - Phoebe Cates (actress)
63 - Michael Flatley (dancer)
64 - Faye Grant (actress)
73 - Ruben Blades (actor)
78 - Jimmy Johnson (football coach/sportscaster)
79 - Margaret Court (tennis player)
82 - William Bell (singer)
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Today in Sports History - July 16
1902 - John McGraw becomes manager of the New York Giants, a position he would hold for the next 30 years.
1950 - Uruguay defeated Brazil 2-1 in Rio de Janeiro to win the World Cup. A crowd of 199,854 people were on hand to witness the match, the largest recorded crowd in sports history.
1964 - Little League Baseball Incorporated was granted a Federal Charter unanimously by the United States Senate and House of Representatives.
1970 - The Pittsburgh Pirates played their first game at Three Rivers Stadium.
1985 - The MLB All-Star Game became the first program broadcast on TV in stereo sound.
2017 - Roger Federer wins a record eighth men's Wimbledon championship.
