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July 16

4 sourced moments from July 16 in history: The Islamic Calendar's Year One Began on July 16, 622; The first nuclear weapon test, Trinity, was July 16, 1945; The biggest crowd ever at a football match packed the Maracana in 1950, plus 1 more.

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4 things happened on July 16

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1969 Space · Space Exploration

Apollo 11 launched at 9:32 a.m. on July 16, 1969

Apollo 11 lifted off from Pad 39A on a 363-foot Saturn V, aiming so true that three planned course corrections were never needed.

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1950 Sports · Football (Soccer)

The biggest crowd ever at a football match packed the Maracana in 1950

Nearly 174,000 paying fans squeezed in for the World Cup final - and went home heartbroken.

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1945 Science · Physics

The first nuclear weapon test, Trinity, was July 16, 1945

Trinity proved the plutonium bomb in New Mexico. Its yield took decades to pin down, and its fallout victims waited 80 years for compensation.

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622 Religion & Beliefs · Major Religions

The Islamic Calendar's Year One Began on July 16, 622

When Muslim scholars later set a calendar, they backdated its very first day to a Friday in midsummer 622.

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