On This Day
16 July
- 🇮🇳 In India
- 1909 Aruna Asaf Ali was born. She was an Indian educator, political activist, and publisher. An active participant in the Indian independence movement, she is widely remembered for hoisting the Indian National flag at the Gowalia Tank maidan, Bombay during a Quit India Movement in 1942.
- 1968 Dhanraj Pillay, retired Indian field hockey player and former captain of the Indian national team, was born.
- 🌎 Elsewhere
- 1872 Roald Amundsen, Norwegian explorer, discoverer of the South Pole, was born.
- 1926 National Geographic photographer Charles Martin and Dr. William Longley took the first underwater colour photograph, that of a hogfish captured off the Florida Keys.
- 1940 Adolf Hitler ordered the preparations to begin on the invasion of England, Operation Sea Lion.
- 1945 The United States tested the first atomic bomb near Alamogordo, New Mexico.
- 1951 J. D. Salinger's novel The Catcher in the Rye was published.
- 1969 Apollo program: Apollo 11, the first mission to land astronauts on the Moon, is launched from the Kennedy Space Center at Cape Kennedy, Florida.
- 1979 Saddam Hussein became president of Iraq.
- 1995 Amazon.com, the e-commerce website first founded in 1995 by Jeff Bezos as an online bookstore, sold its first book.
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