July 16th is

Fresh Spinach Day

Woodie Wagon Day

National Hot Dog Day

World Snake Day

Celebration of the Horse (1^st Day)

International Day of the African Child

World Festivals and National Holidays

American Samoa – Manu’a Cession Day

Bolivia – La Paz Day

Chile – Our Lady of Mount Carmel

Germany – Kölner Lichter Festival – Cologne

Kiribati – Uniwane Day (2^nd day)

On This Day in HISTORY

622 – Muhammad begins Hejira from to Mecca to Yathrib (re-named Medina)

1661 – First European banknotes issued by Stockholms Banco in Sweden

1769 – Father Junipero Serra founds first California Mission, San Diego de Alcalá

1782 – First performance of Mozart’s opera, The Abduction from the Seraglio

1790 – The District of Columbia established as permanent seat of U.S. government

1861 – Battle of Bull Run, the first major battle of the American Civil War

1862 – Ida Bell Wells, civil rights and woman suffrage activist, is born

For the Atom Bomb, J.D. Salinger, and Men on the Moon, click

1900 – “His Master’s Voice” the RCA Victor logo registered with U.S. Patent Office

1926 – First color underwater photographs appear in  National Geographic magazine

1935 – Oklahoma City is first U.S. city to install parking meters

1942 – Vichy French government orders mass arrest of Jews, deported to Auschwitz

1945 – U.S. detonates the first atomic bomb at Alamogordo NM test site

1951 – J.D. Salinger’s The Catcher in the Rye is published

1959 – The Coasters recorded “Poison Ivy”

1969 – Apollo 11 blasts off from Cape Kennedy on first manned mission to the moon

1994 – Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 collides with Jupiter

2007 – Niigata, Japan: 2 earthquakes injure 800, damages nuclear power plant