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- 0622 Mohammed (570-632) while meditating near Mecca in 610 AD, had visions from Allah to write the Koran. He escaped from his enemies in Mecca on July 16, 622 and went to Medina. Mohammed's journey (hejira) on this date would mark the birth of Islam. He raised an army while spreading his beliefs, and returned to conquer Mecca in 630 AD.
- 0622 The beginning of the Islamic calendar.
- 1212 Battle of Las Navas de Tolosa; end of Moslem power in Spain
- 1439 Kissing is banned in England
- 1548 La Paz, Bolivia is founded
- 1661 The first banknotes in Europe are issued by the Swedish bank Stockholms Banco.
- 1683 Manchu/Chinese Qing Dynasty naval forces under commander Shi Lang defeat the Kingdom of Tungning in the Battle of Penghu near the Pescadores Islands.
- 1769 Father Junipero Serra founds Mission San Diego de Alcal, the first mission in California. The mission later evolves into the city of San Diego.
- 1769 Father Serra founds Mission San Diego, first mission in Calif
- 1775 John Adams graduates Harvard
- 1782 First performance of Mozart's opera The Abduction from the Seraglio.
- 1783 Grants of land in Canada to American United Empire Loyalists are announced.
- 1790 The signing of the Residence Bill establishes a site along the Potomac River as the District of Columbia (seat of government).
- 1798 US Public Health Service established & US Marine Hospital authorized
- 1845 The New York Yacht Club hosted the first American boating regatta.
- 1862 American Civil War: David G. Farragut becomes the first United States Navy rear admiral.
- 1862 Comet Swift-Tuttle is discovered by Lewis Swift.
- 1862 David G Farragut became first rear admiral in US Navy
- 1880 Dr. Emily Howard Stowe becomes the first woman licenced to practice medicine in Canada.
- 1894 Many negro miners in Alabama killed by striking white miners
- 1894 Treaty of Aoki-Kimberley signed between Japan & England
- 1904 Islands of the Manu'a group (Samoa) ceded to US by their chiefs
- 1912 Bradley A. Fiske patented the airplane torpedo
- 1912 Naval torpedo launched from an airplane patented by B.A. Fiske
- 1918 Nicholas II Russian tsar, and family are executed
- 1920 Gen Amos Fries appointed first US army chemical warfare chief
- 1920 US wins Davis Cup sweeping Australia in 5 straight matches
- 1926 The first underwater color photographs appeared in " National Geographic" magazine
- 1927 Augusto Sandino begins 5«-year war against US occupation of Nicaragua
- 1935 The first automatic parking meter in US installed, Oklahoma City, Ok
- 1936 The first x-ray photo of arterial circulation, Rochester, NY
- 1941 100ø F (38ø C) highest temperature ever recorded in Seattle Wash
- 1941 Hitler convened top Nazi leaders at his headquarters in East Prussia to dictate how they would rule the newly occupied eastern territories. Ukraine, the "jewel" in the Nazi empire, would become a German colony.
- 1941 New York Yankees' Joe DiMaggio gets a hit in his 56th consecutive game.
- 1942 Holocaust: Rafle du Vel'd'Hiv: The Vichy France government orders French police officers to round up 13,000-20,000 Jews and imprison them in the Winter Velodrome. In 1995, president Jacques Chirac officially recognizes the French police's responsibility.
- 1945 " Fat Boy", the experimental, plutonium bomb, exploded at 5:30 a.m. in the first U.S. test of an atomic bomb. The mushroom-shaped cloud rose to a height of 41,000 feet above the New Mexico desert at Alamogordo Air Base. All life in a one-mile radius ceased to exist.
- 1945 Manhattan Project: The Atomic Age begins when the United States successfully detonates a plutonium-based test nuclear weapon at the Trinity site near Alamogordo, New Mexico.
- 1948 The city of Nazareth, hometown of Jesus, capitulated to Israeli troops during Operation Dekel led by Ben Dunkelman, after little more than token resistance, during 1948 Arab-Israeli War.
- 1950 The largest crowd in sporting history -- 199,854 -- watched the World Cup soccer finals in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Uruguay defeated Brazil.
- 1950 Uruguay beats Brazil 2-1 for soccer's 4th World Cup in Rio de Janeiro
- 1950 Visitor posting - Birth of Geraldine Mayes - USA
- 1951 King Lopold III of Belgium abdicates in favour of his son, Baudouin I of Belgium.
- 1951 Novel "Catcher in the Rye" by JD Salinger published
- 1951 The novel Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger published.
- 1955 "Golden Horseshoe Revue" first of 50,000+ performances, Disneyland
- 1956 Karelo-Finnish SSR becomes part of Russian SFSR
- 1956 Last Ringling Bros, Barnum & Bailey Circus under a canvas tent
- 1957 Marine Maj John Glenn sets transcontinental speed record (03:28:08)
- 1957 United States Marine Major John Glenn flies a F8U Crusader supersonic jet from California to New York in 3 hours, 23 minutes and 8 seconds setting a new transcontinental speed record.
- 1960 205,000 (sports attendance record) see Brazil-Uruguay World Cup soccer
- 1964 Number one hit on UK music charts - The Rolling Stones - It's All Over now
- 1965 Visitor posting - Austin David Walley born in Mississippi
- 1965 The Mont Blanc Tunnel linking France with Italy opens.
- 1967 Prison brawl ignites barracks, killing 37 (Jay, Florida)
- 1969 Apollo 11, carrying first men to land on the Moon, launched
- 1973 During Watergate hearings, Butterfield reveals existence of tapes
- 1973 Watergate Scandal: Former White House aide Alexander P. Butterfield informs the United States Senate that President Richard Nixon had secretly recorded potentially-incriminating conversations.
- 1976 Rock duo Loggins & Messina break-up after 6 years
- 1979 Iraqi President Hasan al-Bakr resigns and is replaced by Saddam Hussein.
- 1980 Ronald Reagan wins the Republican presidential nomination at the party's convention in Detroit.
- 1981 Harry Chapin dies at 39, when his car is rear-ended
- 1981 Shukuni Sasaki spins 72 plates simultaneously
- 1981 Tun Dr. Mahathir bin Mohamad becomes Malaysia's 4th Prime Minister until retired on October 31, 2003. Making him Asia's longest-serving political leaders (22 years as Prime Minister of Malaysia).
- 1982 NASA launches Landsat 4 to thematic map the Earth
- 1982 Patrick Dewaere actor, dies of self-inflicted gunshot wound
- 1983 20 killed in Britain's worst helicopter accident
- 1983 Sikorsky S-61 disaster: helicopter crash off the Isles of Scilly, causing 20 fatalities.
- 1985 Wayne King orch leader, dies at 84
- 1987 The two biggest British airlines, British Airways and British Caledonian are to merge and create a carrier to compete with the giant American air corporations.
- 1988 Carl Lewis runs a wind-assisted 100 m in 9.78 sec
- 1988 Florence Joyner runs 100 m in women's world record 10.49 seconds
- 1988 Michael J Fox marries Tracy Pollan
- 1988 Wayne Gretzky (NHL) & Janet Jones (Police Acad 5) wed in Edmonton
- 1989 Visitor posting - July 16 1989 Melody and Pete married at Our Lady Of Lords in West Islip, New York
- 1990 400 die in a (7.7) earthquake in the Philippines
- 1990 In the Philippines, an earthquake measuring 7.7 on the Richter Scale kills over 1600.
- 1990 NYC's Empire State Building catches fire-No fatalities
- 1990 Rick Dee's "Into the Night," premiers on ABC-TV
- 1991 Frank Rizzo (Mayor-D-Phila, 1972-80), dies at 70
- 1991 Visitor posting - Amber Yamel is born to Enrique & Diana Chavez - USA
- 1991 Peter Smichenko's Birthday
- 1991 Visitor posting - I learned what real love was with the birth of my son.
- 1994 The civil war in Rwanda ends.
- 1994 The planet Jupiter is hit by fragments of the Shoemaker-Levy 9 comet.
- 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.
- 2000 Visitor posting - my cousin billy joe got married - USA
- 2003 The Corsicans reject a referendum for increased autonomy from France by a very thin majority: 50.98 percent against, and 49.02 percent for.
- 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.
- 2006 Visitor posting - My son Sean has his first son, Sophs 2 months early - USA
- 2007 An earthquake of magnitude 6.8 and aftershock of 6.6 occur off the Niigata coast, Japan, killing 8 people with at least 800 injured and damaging a nuclear power plant. See 2007 Chetsu offshore earthquake.
- 2010 Typhoon Conson roared into China Friday near the city of Sanya, along the southern tip of the island of Hainan
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