Almanac for July 16

Almanac for July 16: https://ko-fi.com/Post/July-16-Catcher-in-the-Rye-O4O41HQE3R

Historical Journalist Birthday: Ida B. Wells-Barnett

Southern Horrors Audiobook:

Everand (Scribd): https://www.everand.com/audiobook/1005794258/Southern-Horrors-Lynch-Law-in-All-Its-Phases

Kobo, Walmart: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/audiobook/southern-horrors-lynch-law-in-all-its-phases-17?sId=8e64c1be-05eb-4c61-ae4b-fe5bd7d542b8&ssId=mQrpBSS1AdSWdKcwM9AUD&cPos=1

Spotify:

Bummer July 16

July 16, 1945: The world’s first nuclear device is detonated at Alamogordo, New Mexico.

July 16, 1990: More than 1,600 people in the Philippines die in the Luzon earthquake. 

July 16, 1999: John F. Kennedy Jr. crashes the small aircraft he has been flying off the coast of Martha’s Vineyard, killing himself, his wife Caroline Bessette-Kennedy, and Caroline’s sister Lauren Bessette. 

July 16, 2003: Dozens of children in the village of Gandaman in Bihar, India become sick after eating a lunch of soy beans and potato curry with rice prepared with oil that had been stored in a container that previously contained pesticides. The children become sickened with vomiting and diarrhea due to the pesticide residue. 23 of the children die.