What day of the week was July 16, 1948?

The day of the week July 16th, 1948 fell on was a Friday.

Rubén Blades the Panamanian singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor was born on 16 July in 1948. As was Pierre Koffmann the French-English chef , Lars Lagerbäck the Swedish footballer and manager , Kevin McKenzie the South African cricketer , Pinchas Zukerman the Israeli violinist and conductor .

Following token resistance the the city of Nazareth, revered by Christians as the hometown of Jesus, capitulates to Israeli troops during Operation Dekel in the 1948 Arab–Israeli War. The storming of the cockpit of the Miss Macao passenger seaplane the operated by a subsidiary of the Cathay Pacific Airways, marks the first aircraft hijacking of a commercial plane.