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- 1826
- The first section of Hastings Street opens in Detroit.
- 1860
- New Westminster, the capital of the Colony of British Columbia, is incorporated as a city.
- 1903
- The Malad Valley Railroad is completed between Tremonton and Brigham City, Utah.
- 1948
- The 1,300-year-old village of al-Tira, Haifa, Mandatory Palestine, is depopulated during the Palestine war.
- 1964
- Mount Carmel Shrine is consecrated in Quezon City.
- 2005
- The Qingping Expressway opens in Guangdong province.
- 2010
- A Ross department store opens in San Jose, California.
This is a selection of establishments and disestablishments on July 16, based on OpenHistoricalMap data, that automatically appears on the OpenHistoricalMap page on July 16 of each year. This list highlights important changes in the world, as well as more mundane events that demonstrate the project's ambitious tendency toward micromapping history.
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