Public Holidays on July 16

• 🌍 Our Lady of Mount Carmel (Chile)
• 🌍 Virgen del Carmen (Chile)

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Religious Observances on July 16

• Hindu: Rath Yatra

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On This Day in History — July 16

• 2015 — Four U.S. Marines and one gunman die in a shooting spree targeting military installations in Chattanooga, Tennessee.
• 2013 — As many as 27 children die and 25 others are hospitalized after eating lunch served at their school in eastern India.
• 2007 — An earthquake of magnitude 6.8 and 6.6 aftershock occurs off the Niigata coast of Japan killing eight people, injuring at least 800 and damaging a nuclear power plant.
• 2004 — Millennium Park, considered Chicago's first and most ambitious early 21st-century architectural project, is opened to the public by Mayor Richard M. Daley.
• 1999 — John F. Kennedy Jr., piloting a Piper Saratoga aircraft, dies when his plane crashes into the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Martha's Vineyard. His wife and sister-in-law are also killed.
• 1990 — The Luzon earthquake strikes the Philippines with an intensity of 7.7, affecting Benguet, Pangasinan, Nueva Ecija, La Union, Aurora, Bataan, Zambales and Tarlac.

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Notable Births on July 16

• 1991 — Andros Townsend, English footballer
• 1990 — Bureta Faraimo, New Zealand rugby league player
• 1990 — Johann Zarco, French motorcycle racer
• 1989 — Gareth Bale, Welsh footballer
• 1989 — Carlito Olivero, American singer-songwriter and actor
• 1988 — Sergio Busquets, Spanish footballer

Notable Deaths on July 16

• 2017 — George Romero, American filmmaker (b. 1940)
• 2015 — Jack Goody, English anthropologist, author, and academic (b. 1919)
• 2015 — Denis Avey, English soldier, engineer, and author (b. 1919)
• 2015 — Evelyn Ebsworth, English chemist and academic (b. 1933)
• 2015 — Alcides Ghiggia, Uruguayan footballer and manager (b. 1926)
• 2014 — Karl Albrecht, German businessman, co-founded Aldi (b. 1920)

Public Holidays on July 17

• 🌍 제헌절 (South Korea)

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On This Day in History — July 17

• 2015 — At least 120 people are killed and 130 injured by a suicide bombing in Diyala Province, Iraq.
• 2014 — Malaysia Airlines Flight 17, a Boeing 777, crashes near the border of Ukraine and Russia after being shot down. All 298 people on board are killed.
• 2014 — A French regional train on the Pau-Bayonne line crashes into a high-speed train near the town of Denguin, resulting in at least 25 injuries.
• 2007 — TAM Airlines Flight 3054, an Airbus A320, crashes into a warehouse after landing too fast and missing the end of the São Paulo-Congonhas Airport runway, killing 199 people.
• 2006 — The 7.7 Mw Pangandaran tsunami earthquake severely affects the Indonesian island of Java, killing 668 people, and leaving more than 9,000 injured.
• 2001 — Concorde is brought back into service nearly a year after the July 2000 crash.

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Notable Births on July 17

• 1994 — Kali Uchis, American singer-songwriter
• 1992 — Billie Lourd, American actress
• 1987 — Darius Boyd, Australian rugby league player
• 1987 — Jan Charouz, Czech race car driver
• 1987 — Jeremih, American singer-songwriter and producer
• 1986 — DeAngelo Smith, American football player

Notable Deaths on July 17

• 2015 — Bill Arnsparger, American football player and coach (b. 1926)
• 2015 — Jules Bianchi, French race car driver (b. 1989)
• 2015 — Owen Chadwick, English rugby player, historian, and academic (b. 1916)
• 2015 — Van Miller, American sportscaster (b. 1927)
• 2015 — John Taylor, English pianist and educator (b. 1942)
• 2014 — Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 victims: Liam Davison, Australian author and critic (b. 1957) Shuba Jay, Malaysian actress (b. 1976) Joep Lange, Dutch physician and academic (b. 1954) Willem Witteveen, Dutch scholar and...