Daily Calendar for Thursday, July 16, 2026

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Anne of Cleves (fourth wife of King Henry VIII) – 1557
Mary Todd Lincoln (U.S. First Lady) – 1882
Harry Chapin (singer & songwriter) – 1981
May Sarton (poet) – 1995
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) – 1999
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) – 2004

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 – 1790
Dr. Emily Howard Stowe, the first woman to practice medicine in Canada, received her medical license. – 1880
First parking meters installed, Oklahoma City, OK – 1935
Apollo 11 launched from Cape Kennedy, Florida, to become the first manned space mission to land on the moon – 1969
135 pilot whales beached at Point au Gaul, Newfoundland and Labrador – 1979
In the Philippines, an earthquake measuring 7.7 on the Richter Scale killed over 1,600 people – 1990
The 6th book in J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter series sold 6.9 million copies in its first 24 hours — averaging better than 250,000 sales per hour – 2005
A 3.6-magnitude earthquake struck about 20 miles northwest of Washington, D.C., in Maryland – 2010
3.4 earthquake occurred near Germantown, Maryland – 2010
Bryan Cranston received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame – 2013
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 – 2019

F2 tornado in Grafton County, New Hampshire – 1880
15th to 16th: 22.22 inches of rain in 24 hours, Altapass, North Carolina – 1916
In Churdan, Iowa, a tornado touched down and moved northwest, opposite the normal pattern – 1969