Vero - Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/July 16

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  Muhammad I of Granada (red shield)
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  Impact site on Jupiter of a Shoemaker–Levy 9 fragment
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  John F. Kennedy Jr.
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  Millennium Park
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  Portrait of Joseph II, Holy Roman Emperor, by Pierre-Joseph Lion
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  Phạm Ngọc Thảo
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  The Declaration of State Sovereignty of Ukraine marked on a 1991 USSR postage stamp
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  David Farragut
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  Mission San Diego de Alcalá
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  Phạm Ngọc Thảo
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  Haile Selassie on a cover of Time magazine
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  Haile Selassie in 1970
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  The detonation during the test
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  Mushroom cloud of Trinity
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  "Trinity", the first nuclear test explosion

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Blurb	Reason
Feast day of Our Lady of Mount Carmel (Roman Catholic Church);	refimprove section
622 – The epoch of the Islamic calendar occurred, marking the year that Muhammad began his Hijra from Mecca to Medina.	refimprove section
* 1769 – Spanish friar Junípero Serra founded Mission San Diego de Alcalá, the first Franciscan mission in the Alta California region of New Spain.	Too much uncited
1779 – American Revolutionary War: A select force of Continental Army infantry made a surprise night attack and captured a fortified position of the British Army on the Hudson River south of West Point, New York.	refimprove section
1862 – David Farragut became the first person to be promoted to the rank of rear admiral in the United States Navy.	refimprove section
1979 – Saddam Hussein replaced the resigning Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr as President of Iraq, after having gradually usurped power from his cousin.	refimprove section
1990 – The parliament of Ukrainian SSR adopted the Declaration of State Sovereignty of Ukraine.	stub
1999 – John F. Kennedy Jr., his wife Carolyn Bessette Kennedy, and sister-in-law Lauren Bessette were killed in a plane crash off the coast of Martha's Vineyard.	refimprove section
2001 – Russia and the People's Republic of China signed the Treaty of Good-Neighborliness and Friendly Cooperation, a twenty-year strategic treaty.	no footnotes
Ratna Sarumpaet |b|1948	recentism
Ali Khamenei|b|1939|	Language model orange banner
Larry Sanger |b|1968	WP:NAVEL
Johann Zarco|b|1990|	Too much uncited

Eligible

• 1377 – The ten-year-old Richard II was crowned King of England at Westminster Abbey.
• 1782 – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's opera Die Entführung aus dem Serail premiered in Vienna, after which Emperor Joseph II anecdotally remarked that it had "too many notes".
• 1790 – President George Washington signed the Residence Act, selecting a new permanent site along the Potomac River for the capital of the United States, which later became Washington, D.C.
• 1931 – Ethiopian emperor Haile Selassie promulgated the nation's first modern constitution.
• 1945 – The United States conducted the first detonation of a nuclear weapon during the Trinity test (pictured).
• 1950 – Korean War: A Korean People's Army unit massacred 31 prisoners of war of the U.S. Army on a mountain near the village of Tuman.
• 1965 – South Vietnamese Colonel Phạm Ngọc Thảo (pictured)—an undetected communist spy—was reported dead due to injuries sustained during his capture, but it is generally assumed he was killed on the orders of military officials.
• 1990 – A 7.8 M_S earthquake struck the densely populated Philippine island of Luzon, killing an estimated 1,621 people.
• 1994 – Fragments of Comet Shoemaker–Levy 9 began colliding with the planet Jupiter , with the first impact causing a fireball that reached a peak temperature of 24,000 kelvin.
• 2004 – Millennium Park, a public park in Chicago, Illinois, and one of the world's largest rooftop gardens, opened to the public.
• 2008 – A tainted milk powder scandal broke in China which ultimately involved an estimated 300,000 victims, the vast majority infants, with 54,000 hospitalized with kidney problems and six deaths.
• 2013 – At least 23 students died and dozens more fell ill at a primary school in the Indian state of Bihar after consuming a Midday Meal that was contaminated with pesticide.
• Born/died: | Pope Innocent III|d|1216| Charles I of Hungary |d|1342| Al-Nasir Ahmad, Sultan of Egypt|d|1344| Meinhardt Schomberg|d|1719| Philip Wodehouse|b|1773| Sarah Allen |d|1849| Mildred Lewis Rutherford|b|1851| William T. Warburton |b|1852| Ellen Oliver|b|1870| Agnes Weinrich|b|1873| Mary Todd Lincoln|d|1882| Anna Vyrubova|b|1884| Stan McCabe|b|1910| Ellen G. White|d|1915| Évariste Kimba|b|1926| Assata Shakur|b|1947| Alexis Herman |b|1947| Albert Kesselring|d|1960| Tim Ryan|b|1963| Will Ferrell|b|1967| Vecihi Hürkuş|d|1969| Julia Kronlid |b|1980| Carli Lloyd|b|1982| Gareth Bale|b|1989| Alcides Ghiggia|d|2015| Gary Karr |d|2025| Livingstone Luboobi |d|2025|

Notes

• Starfish Prime appears on July 9, so Trinity should not appear in the same year

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• 1232 – Muhammad ibn Yusuf, who later established the Emirate of Granada, the last Muslim state in Spain, was elected the ruler of Arjona.
• 1950 – Uruguay won the decisive match of the FIFA World Cup against Brazil 2–1 at Maracanã Stadium, Rio de Janeiro.
• 1951 – The Catcher in the Rye, an American coming-of-age novel by J. D. Salinger, was first published (cover pictured).
• 1983 – A [[Sikorsky S-61|Sikorsky Template:Nowrap]] helicopter operated by British Airways crashed in thick fog in the Celtic Sea, killing 20 of the 26 people on board.
• 2007 – An earthquake of magnitude Template:M struck Niigata Prefecture, Japan, causing a leak of radioactive gases from the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa Nuclear Power Plant.