The July 16th is the 197e Jour of the Année (198e in the event of Leap year) of the Gregorian Calendrier.

Events

1 to 1900

  •    622: Hégire of Mecque towards Médine, beginning of the Moslem era

  • 1212: The Christian kingdoms of Spain gain a major victory over the Moors, at the time of the Bataille of Mow Navas de Tolosa
  • 1344: End of the kingdom of independent Majorque: Jacques III, last king independent of Majorque, also count of Roussillon and Cerdagne, which was a time taken refuge at its vassal count de Foix, is relieved of all its grounds
  • 1394: Charles VI orders the expulsion of the Jews of France
  • 1465: Battle of Montlhéry
  • 1489: Publication with Lisbon (Portugal) by the rich person scholar Eliezer Toledano of the “Comment” of Nahmanide on the Pentateuque, which constitutes the very first book printed with Lisbon
  • 1767: Jeanne-Francoise Frémyot de Chantal is canonized by Clément XIII.
  • 1789 :
    • Recall of Necker.
    • First departures in emigration: the count d' Artois, brother of Louis XVI, the prince de Condé, thrown into a panic by turning that the events take exile.

20th century

  • 1942 : 12.884 Jews are stopped at the time of the Rafle of the cycle-racing track of winter to Paris, raid which only represents with it more of the quarter of the 42.000 Jewish French envoys with Auschwitz in 1942

  • 1945: First explosion of a atomic bomb following the Project Manhattan
  • 1965: Inauguration of the Tunnel of Mont Blanc
  • 1969: The space mission Apollo 11 takes off of Cape Kennedy (Cap Canaveral) in Florida with on its board a crew of three astronauts: Neil Armstrong, Edwin Aldrin and Michael Hakes. The mission aims to lead Armstrong and Aldrin to the surface of the moon
  • 1971: The Spanish dictator Francisco Franco indicates Juan Carlos de Borbón to be his successor, with the title of king d' Espagne
  • 1974: The president Valery Giscard d'Estaing chooses the journalist Francoise Giroud like first Secretary of State to the Female condition
  • 1990: An earthquake with the Filipino makes 1.450 dead
  • 1993: First version of the distribution GNU/Linux Slackware
  • 1994:
  • 1995: The French president Jacques Chirac recognizes the responsibility for the State in anti-Jewish persecutions of 1940-1944, at the time of the commemoration of the raid of Vel' of hiv'

21e century

  • 2005 :

    • Election of My Ying-jeou, mayor of the capital of Taiwan, Taipeh, like chair Kuomintang (KMT), becoming thus the principal leader of the first force of the opposition
    • a Kamikaze is exploded, with its tanker, in a service station close to a mosque of the city Chiite Musayyib, with approximately 60km in the south of Baghdad, killing more than 98 people and making more than 100 wounded. See article Wikinews

Births

Death

Celebrations

  • France: National day with the memory of the victims of the racist crimes and anti-semites of the French State and homage to the Right of France ()

Catholic and orthodoxe saints

See too

Beats-smg: Lėipas 16 Be-X-old: 16 ліпеня Fiu-vro: 16. hainakuu päiv Nds-nl: 16 juli Simple: July 16 Zh-yue: 7 月 16 號

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