Today is Friday, July 16, the 197th day of 2010. There are 168 days left in the year.
1439 ― Kissing is banned in England
1894 ― Treaty of Aoki-Kimberley signed between Japan and England
1912 ― Naval torpedo launched from an airplane patented by B.A. Fiske
1945 ― First atomic bomb detonated, Trinity Site, Alamogordo, New Mexico
1951 ― Novel ``Catcher in the Rye" by J.D. Salinger published
1960 ― 205,000 (record sports attend) see Brazil-Uruguay World Cup soccer
1969 ― Apollo 11, carrying first men to land on the Moon, launched
1981 ― Shukuni Sasaki spins 72 plates simultaneously
1988 ― Carl Lewis runs a wind-assisted 100 meters in 9.78 seconds
1988 ― Florence Joyner runs 100 meters in women's world record of 10.49 seconds