History for July 16 - On-This-Day.com
Barbara Stanwyck 1907, Orville Redenbacher 1907, Ginger Rogers 1911
Michael Flatley 1958, Will Ferrell 1967, Barry Sanders 1968
1942 - French police officers rounded up 13,000 Jews and held them in the Winter Velodrome. The round-up was part of an agreement between Pierre Laval and the Nazis. Germany had agreed to not deport French Jews if France arrested foreign Jews. (Read the book!)
1981 - After 23 years with the name Datsun, executives of Nissan changed the name of their cars to Nissan.
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