1912 –<\/strong> Bradley A. Fiske patented the airplane torpedo.<\/p>\n 1926 –<\/strong> The first underwater color photographs appeared in “National Geographic” magazine. The pictures had been taken near the Florida Keys.<\/p>\n 1935 –<\/strong> Oklahoma City became the first city in the U.S. to install parking meters.<\/p>\n 1940 –<\/strong> Adolf Hitler ordered the preparations to begin on the invasion of England, known as Operation Sea Lion.<\/p>\n 1942 –<\/strong> French police officers rounded up 13,000 Jews and held them in the Winter Velodrome. The round-up was part of an agreement between Pierre Laval and the Nazis. Germany had agreed to not deport French Jews if France arrested foreign Jews.<\/p>\n 1944 –<\/strong> Soviet troops occupied Vilna, Lithuania, in their drive toward Germany.<\/p>\n 1945 –<\/strong> The United States detonated the first atomic bomb in a test at Alamogordo, NM.<\/p>\n 1950 –<\/strong> The largest crowd in sporting history was 199,854. They watched Uruguay defeat Brazil in the World Cup soccer finals in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.<\/p>\n 1951 –<\/strong> J.D. Salinger’s novel “The Catcher in the Rye” was first published.<\/p>\n 1957 –<\/strong> Marine Major John Glenn set a transcontinental speed record when he flew a jet from California to New York in 3 hours, 23 minutes and 8 seconds.<\/p>\n 1964 –<\/strong> Little League Baseball Incorporated was granted a Federal Charter unanimously by the United States Senate and House of Representatives.<\/p>\n 1969 –<\/strong>\u00a0Apollo 11<\/i>\u00a0blasted off from Cape Kennedy, FL, and began the first manned mission to land on the moon.<\/p>\n 1970 –<\/strong> The Pittsburgh Pirates played their first game at Three Rivers Stadium.<\/p>\n 1973 –<\/strong> Alexander P. Butterfield informed the Senate committee investigating the Watergate affair of the existence of recorded tapes.<\/p>\n 1979 –<\/strong> Saddam Hussein became president of Iraq after forcing Hasan al-Bakr to resign.<\/p>\n 1981 –<\/strong> After 23 years with the name Datsun, executives of Nissan changed the name of their cars to Nissan.<\/p>\n 1985 –<\/strong> The All-Star Game, televised on NBC-TV, was the first program broadcast in stereo by a TV network.<\/p>\n 2005 –<\/strong> J.K. Rowling’s book “Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince” was released. It was the sixth in the Harry Potter series. The book sold 6.9 million copies on its first day of release.<\/p>\n 2009 –<\/strong> In Chicago, Sears Tower was renamed Willis Tower.<\/p>\n 2011 –<\/strong> The NASA space probe\u00a0Dawn<\/i>\u00a0entered Vesta orbit.<\/p>\n 2013 \u2013<\/strong> As many as 27 children die and 25 others are hospitalized after eating lunch served at their school in eastern India.<\/p>\n 2015 \u2013<\/strong> Four U.S. Marines and one gunman die in a shooting spree targeting military installations in Chattanooga, Tennesse.<\/p>\n 1981 \u2013<\/strong> Giuseppe Di Masi, Italian footballer History of 16 July 1912 – Bradley A. Fiske patented the airplane torpedo. 1926 – The first underwater color photographs appeared in “National Geographic” magazine. 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\n1981 \u2013<\/strong> Robert Kranjec, Slovenian ski jumper
\n1982 \u2013<\/strong> Andr\u00e9 Greipel, German cyclist
\n1982 \u2013<\/strong> Michael Uma\u00f1a, Costa Rican footballer
\n1983 \u2013<\/strong> Duncan Keith, Canadian ice hockey player
\n1984 \u2013<\/strong> Hayanari Shimoda, Japanese race car driver
\n1984 \u2013<\/strong> Attila Szab\u00f3, Hungarian decathlete
\n1985 \u2013<\/strong> M\u0101rti\u0146\u0161 Krav\u010denko, Latvian basketball player
\n1986 \u2013<\/strong> Dustin Boyd, Canadian ice hockey player
\n1986 \u2013<\/strong> Misako Uno, Japanese actress, singer, and fashion designer
\n1987 \u2013<\/strong> Mousa Demb\u00e9l\u00e9, Belgian footballer
\n1987 \u2013<\/strong> AnnaLynne McCord, American actress, and producer
\n1988 \u2013<\/strong> Sergio Busquets, Spanish footballer
\n1989 \u2013<\/strong> Gareth Bale, Welsh footballer
\n1990 \u2013<\/strong> Bureta Faraimo, New Zealand rugby league player
\n1990 \u2013<\/strong> Wizkid, Nigerian singer and songwriter
\n1990 \u2013<\/strong> Johann Zarco, French motorcycle racer
\n1991 \u2013<\/strong> Nate Schmidt, American ice hockey player
\n1991 \u2013<\/strong> Andros Townsend, English footballer
\n1996 \u2013<\/strong> Daniel Pearson, English actor and presenter<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"