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July 16th, 2007	Event	An earthquake of magnitude 6.8 and aftershock of 6.6 occur off the Niigata coast, Japan, killing 8 people with at least 800 injured and damaging a nuclear power plant. See 2007 Chuetsu offshore earthquake.
July 16th, 2005	Event	Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince by J.K.Rowling released, selling over 9 million copies in the 24 hours after release.
July 16th, 2004	Event	Millennium Park, considered the first and most ambitious architectural project in the early 21st century for Chicago, is opened to the public by Mayor Richard M. Daley.
July 16th, 1999	Event	John F. Kennedy Jr., his wife Carolyn Bessette Kennedy, and sister-in-law Lauren Bessette are killed in a plane crash off the coast of Martha s Vineyardied in The Piper Saratoga aircraft was piloted by Kennedy.
July 16th, 1994	Event	Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9:comet that collided with Jupiter in 1994. Impacts began on this date through July 22nd.
July 16th, 1983	Event	Sikorsky S-61 disaster: helicopter crash off the Isles of Scilly, causing 20 fatalities.
July 16th, 1981	Event	Tun Dr. Mahathir bin Mohamad becomes Malaysia s 4th Prime Minister until retired on October 31, 2003. Making him Asia s longest-serving political leaders (22 years as Prime Minister of Malaysia).
July 16th, 1979	Event	Iraqi President Hasan al-Bakr resigns and is replaced by Saddam Hussein.
July 16th, 1973	Event	Watergate Scandal: Former White House aide Alexander P. Butterfield informs the United States Senate that President Richard Nixon had secretly recorded potentially-incriminating conversations.
July 16th, 1969	Event	Apollo program: Apollo 11 is launched from Cape Kennedy, Florida and will become the first manned space mission to land on the moon.

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