July 16: Today in Comics History Index

• July 16, 1804: Month passes without incident (Manifest Destiny #12)
• July 16, 1827: Thus was born the terrible crime duo of the Pirate and the Shark (Crime Must Pay the Penalty #6)
• July 16, 189X: This isn't going well, as the captions continue to tell you (Marvel Classics Comics #9)
• July 16, 1940: Hundreds perish in tragic train wreck just so this guy can get a cool origin story (Doomsday Clock #12)
• July 16, 1945: United States military explodes the first Kirby Bomb (Marvel Treasury Special Featuring Captain America's Bicentennial Battles and others)
• July 16, 1957: Beatles debut before puzzled crowd (Lennon: The New York Years)
• July 16, 1969: Indicia fireproofed against rocket exhaust (Marvel: The Lost Generation #6)
• July 16, 1992: Spider-Man appears on a really high-stakes game show (Spectacular Spider-Man #211)
• July 16, 1993: Andy Warhol stars in Birdemic (Miracleman #19)
• July 16, 1995: From this date on, we shall never ever see any Captain Atom comic books ever again (Armageddon 2001 #2)

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Industry birthdays:

• July 16, 1990: Mattson Tomlin

Celebrity birthdays:

• July 16, 1862: Ida B. Wells
• July 16, 1872: Roald Amundsen
• July 16, 1952: Stewart Copeland