EST. DECEMBER 1994 • 30+ YEARS ONLINE
yow.com 🐯
Owned continuously since 1994
TODAY IN HISTORY
July 16
Thursday, July 16, 2026
Day 197 of 2026 | Week 29 | 162 days until Christmas 🎅
HISTORIC EVENTS
A 100-year-old building in Mumbai, India, collapses, killing at least 10 people and leaving many others trapped.
Four U.S. Marines and a United States Navy Sailor are killed in the a shooting spree targeting military installations in Chattanooga, Tennessee.
As many as 27 children die and 25 others are hospitalized after eating lunch served at their school in eastern India.
Syrian civil war: The Battle of Ras al-Ayn resumes between the People's Protection Units (YPG) and Islamist forces, beginning the Rojava–Islamist conflict.
Teoh Beng Hock, an aide to a politician in Malaysia is found dead on the rooftop of a building adjacent to the offices of the Anti-Corruption Commission, sparking an inquest that gains nationwide attention.
An earthquake of magnitude 6.8 and 6.6 aftershock occurs off the Niigata coast of Japan killing eight people, injuring at least 800 and damaging a nuclear power plant.
An Antonov An-24 crashes near Baney in Bioko Norte, Equatorial Guinea, killing 60 people.
Millennium Park, considered Chicago's first and most ambitious early 21st-century architectural project, is opened to the public by Mayor Richard M. Daley.
John F. Kennedy Jr., his wife, Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy, and her sister, Lauren Bessette, die when the aircraft he is piloting crashes into the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Martha's Vineyard.
The comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 is destroyed in a head-on collision with Jupiter.
FAMOUS BIRTHDAYS
American NFL center and guard (Pittsburgh Steelers)
American College and Pro Football Hall of Fame running back (Heisman Trophy 1988
French con artist
American NFL guard and center (NY Jets)
NFL kicker (New Orleans Saints)
English writer and broadcaster (Capital Breakfast)
Finnish NHL defenseman (Canucks
South African explorer
American filmmaker (The Exorcism of Emily Rose; The Day the Earth Stood Still (2008); Doctor Strange)
NBA forward (San Antonio Spurs)
Canadian NHL forward (Team Canada
American actress (Fast Times at Ridgemount High)
Slovenian footballer and coach
Dutch pop guitarist (Scene
German discus thrower (Olympics-4th place-1980)
🎯 yow.com Connection
On March 9, 1994 - just months before yow.com would be registered - the internet was still in its infancy. There were only about 3,000 websites in existence, and most people accessed the web through 14.4kbps dial-up modems. Today, you're visiting a domain that has survived 30+ years of that incredible evolution.
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