Template:Selected anniversaries/July 16

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  • 1530: Mathematician Johannes Stöffler meets a man he calls "The Judge", who calls himself Havelock.

    1530: Mathematician Johannes Stöffler meets a man he calls "The Judge", who calls himself Havelock.

  • 1746: Priest, mathematician, and astronomer Giuseppe Piazzi born. He will discover dwarf planet Ceres.

    1746: Priest, mathematician, and astronomer Giuseppe Piazzi born. He will discover dwarf planet Ceres.

  • 1890: Havelock endures bullet wound, survives shootout.

    1890: Havelock endures bullet wound, survives shootout.

  • 1945: Manhattan Project: The Atomic Age begins when the United States successfully detonates a plutonium-based test nuclear weapon near Alamogordo, New Mexico.

    1945: Manhattan Project: The Atomic Age begins when the United States successfully detonates a plutonium-based test nuclear weapon near Alamogordo, New Mexico.

  • 1973: Watergate scandal: Former White House aide Alexander Butterfield informs the United States Senate that President Richard Nixon had secretly recorded potentially incriminating conversations.

    1973: Watergate scandal: Former White House aide Alexander Butterfield informs the United States Senate that President Richard Nixon had secretly recorded potentially incriminating conversations.

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