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July 16

Impact site on Jupiter of a Shoemaker–Levy 9 fragment

1377 – The ten-year-old Richard II was crowned King of England at Westminster Abbey.
1782 – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's opera Die Entführung aus dem Serail premiered in Vienna, after which Emperor Joseph II anecdotally remarked that it had "too many notes".
1950 – Korean War: A Korean People's Army unit massacred 31 prisoners of war of the U.S. Army on a mountain near the village of Tuman.
1994 – Fragments of Comet Shoemaker–Levy 9 began colliding with the planet Jupiter (impact site pictured), with the first impact causing a fireball that reached a peak temperature of 24,000 kelvin.
2004 – Millennium Park, a public park in Chicago, Illinois, and one of the world's largest rooftop gardens, opened to the public.

Fulrad (d. 784)
al-Nasir Ahmad, Sultan of Egypt (d. 1344)
Ellen Oliver (b. 1870)
Gareth Bale (b. 1989)

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