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World Snake Day July 16 | ||
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National Personal Chef Day July 16 | ||
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National Corn Fritters Day July 16 | ||
Also on July 16
🏛️ Public Holidays
Also observed in: Our Lady of Mount Carmel (CL) · Virgen del Carmen (CL)
✡️ Religious Observances
- Hindu: Rath Yatra major
🕰️ On This Day in History
- 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... ↗
- 2004 — Millennium Park, considered Chicago's first and most ambitious early 21st-century architectural project, is opened to the public by... ↗
- 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... ↗
🎂 Notable Births
- 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