Daily Calendar for Wednesday, July 16, 2025

Born

  • Andrea del Sarto (painter) –
  • Pierre Le Moyne (French-Canadian explorer) –
  • Giuseppe Piazzi (Italian astronomer) –
  • Mary Baker Eddy (religious leader) –
  • Shoeless Joe Jackson (baseball player) –
  • Barbara Stanwyck (actress) –
  • Ginger Rogers (actress) –
  • Michael Flatley (dancer & choreographer) –
  • Phoebe Cates (actress) –
  • Will Ferrell (actor) –
  • Barry Sanders (football player) –
  • Corey Feldman (actor) –
  • Carli Lloyd (soccer player) –

Died

  • Anne of Cleves (fourth wife of King Henry VIII) –
  • Mary Todd Lincoln (U.S. First Lady) –
  • Harry Chapin (singer & songwriter) –
  • John F. Kennedy, Jr. (died in a plane crash on his way to a cousin’s wedding on Martha’s Vineyard. His wife, Carolyn Bessette, and her sister, Lauren, were also aboard) –
  • Charles W. Sweeney (pilot of the U.S. bomber that dropped the atomic bomb on Nagasaki, Japan, in the last days of World War II) –

Events

  • Congress established the District of Columbia on the Potomac River, voting to set up the permanent seat of the government of the U.S. there–
  • Dr. Emily Howard Stowe, the first woman to practice medicine in Canada, received her medical license.–
  • First parking meters installed, Oklahoma City, OK–
  • Apollo 11 launched from Cape Kennedy, Florida, to become the first manned space mission to land on the moon–
  • 135 pilot whales beached at Point au Gaul, Newfoundland and Labrador–
  • In the Philippines, an earthquake measuring 7.7 on the Richter Scale killed over 1,600 people–
  • The 6th book in J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter series sold 6.9 million copies in its first 24 hours β€” averaging better than 250,000 sales per hour–
  • A 3.6-magnitude earthquake struck about 20 miles northwest of Washington, D.C., in Maryland–
  • 3.4 earthquake occurred near Germantown, Maryland–
  • Bryan Cranston received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame–
  • To mark the 50th anniversary of Apollo 11’s launch, U.S. Space & Rocket Center in Huntsville, Alabama, launched 5,000 model rockets simultaneously, breaking a Guinness world record–

Weather

  • F2 tornado in Grafton County, New Hampshire–
  • 15th to 16th: 22.22 inches of rain in 24 hours, Altapass, North Carolina–
  • In Churdan, Iowa, a tornado touched down and moved northwest, opposite the normal pattern–

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