IV ჯგუფი - 19 წწ და ზევით

Here are some interesting facts ih history happened on 16 July.

1. Battle of Las Navas de Tolosa; end of Moslem power in Spain.
2. La Paz Bolivia is founded.
3. Father Serra founds Mission San Diego 1st mission in Calif
4. Congress establishes Dist of Columbia
5. 1st major battle of the Civil War -- Bull Run
6. many negro miners in Alabama killed by striking white miners.
7. Ruth sets season home run record with 30 enroute to 54
8. Augusto Sandino begins war against US occupation of Nicaragua.
9. 1st automatic parking meter in US installed Oklahoma City Ok
10. 1st atomic blast Trinity Site Alamogordo NM
11. Attempt made to recall Mayor Lapham (1st time in SF history)
12. Bobo Newsom won his 200th game 1st as a Yankee & Yanks 18th straight In the night cap Vic Rashi extended streak to 19
13. Apollo 11 1st manned ship to land on the moon is launched.

These famous people were born on 16 July.

1. 1704 - John Kay, English machinist, inventor of the flying shuttle.
2. 1723 - Sir Joshua Reynolds, English portrait painter.
3. 1746 - Giuseppe Piazzi, discovered 1st asteroid, Ceres.
4. 1821 - Mary Baker Eddy, founder of Christian Science (Science and Health).
5. 1858 - Eugne Ysa˜e, Belgian violinist, conductor, composer.
6. 1888 - Frits Zernike, inventor of phase-contrast microscope (Nobel 1953).
7. 1896 - Trygve Lie, 1st sec-general of UN (1946-52).
8. 1907 - Barbara Stanwyck, Actress
9. 1907 - Orville Redenbacher, popcorn king
10. 1911 - Ginger Rogers, (Virginia McMath), dancer, Actress in Independence Mo
11. 1915 - Laverne Andrews, in Minneapolis -, Andrew Sister (or 0706)
12. 1915 - Bernard Hughes
13. 1924 - Bess Myerson, in NY, Miss America 1944
14. 1932 - Milly Vitale
15. 1942 - Margaret Smith Court, Australian tennis pro.
16. 1948 - Ruben Blades, Singer
17. 1948 - Pinchas Zukerman, violinist.
18. 1952 - Stewart Copeland