This might not be in the best of taste, but it sure had me ROTFL.
I went to http://en.wikipedia.org, where they had tomorrow's selected anniversary dates listed.
July 16:
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622
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Beginning of the Islamic calendar.
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1918
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Russian Revolution: Bolsheviks executed Tsar Nicholas II of Russia and his family at Ekaterinburg.
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1945
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Manhattan Project: "Trinity", the first nuclear test explosion, was detonated near Alamogordo, New Mexico, United States.
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1979
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Saddam Hussein took over as President of Iraq, succeeding Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr.
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1994
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The planet Jupiter was hit by fragments of the Shoemaker-Levy 9 comet
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They missed one:
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1988
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My ex-wife and I were married.
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amused