Today is Saturday, July 16, the 197th day of 2011. There are 168 days left in the year.
622 _ Origin of the Islamic Era (Muharram 1, 1 A.H.)
1212 _ Battle of Las Navas de Tolosa; end of Moslem power in Spain
1439 _ Kissing is banned in England
1936 _ First x-ray photo of arterial circulation, Rochester, N.Y.
1945 _ First atomic bomb detonated, Trinity Site, Alamogordo, N.M.
1951 _ Novel ``Catcher in the Rye" by J.D. Salinger published
1960 _ 205,000 (record sports attend) see Brazil-Uruguay World Cup soccer
1962 _ NASA civilian test pilot Joseph A Walker takes X-15 to 32,600 m
1969 _ Apollo 11, carrying first men to land on the Moon, launched
1980 _ Ronald Reagan nominated for President by Republicans in Detroit