July 16

is the 197th day (198th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian Calendar, with 168 days remaining.

Events

622 - The Prophet Mohammed begins his Hijra from Mecca to Medina. This marks the beginning of the Islamic calendar.
1661 - The first banknotes in Europe are issued by the Bank of Stockholm.
1769 - Father Junipero Serra founds Mission San Diego de Alcalá, the first mission in California. The mission later evolves into the city of San Diego.
1779 - American Revolutionary War: United States forces led by General Anthony Wayne capture Stony Point, New York from British troops.
1782 - First performance of Mozart's opera The Abduction from the Seraglio.
1783 - Grants of land in Canada to American United Empire Loyalists are announced.
1790 - The signing of the Residence Bill establishes a site along the Potomac River as the District of Columbia (seat of government).
1862 - American Civil War: David G. Farragut becomes the first United States Navy rear admiral.
1862 - Comet Swift-Tuttle is discovered by Lewis Swift.
1880 - Dr. Emily Howard Stowe becomes the first woman licenced to practice medicine in Canada.
1930 - Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia signs the first constitution of Ethiopia.
1941 - New York Yankees' Joe DiMaggio gets a hit in his 56th consecutive game.
1942 - Holocaust: Rafle du Vel'd'Hiv: The Vichy France government orders French police officers to round up 13,000-20,000 Jews and imprison them in the Winter Velodrome. In 1995, president Jacques Chirac officially recognizes the French police's responsibility.
1945 - Manhattan Project: The Atomic Age begins when the United States successfully detonates a plutonium-based test nuclear weapon at the Trinity site near Alamogordo, New Mexico.
1951 - The novel Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger published.
1951 - King Léopold III of Belgium abdicates in favour of his son, Baudouin I of Belgium.
1957 - United States Marine Major John Glenn flies a F8U Crusader supersonic jet from California to New York in 3 hours, 23 minutes and 8 seconds setting a new transcontinental speed record.
1965 - The Mont Blanc Tunnel linking France with Italy opens.
1969 - Apollo program: Apollo 11 launches from Cape Kennedy, Florida and will become the first manned space mission to land on the moon.
1973 - Watergate Scandal: Former White House aide Alexander P. Butterfield informs the United States Senate that President Richard Nixon had secretly recorded potentially-incriminating conversations.
1979 - Iraqi President Hasan al-Bakr resigns and is replaced by Saddam Hussein.
1983 - Sikorsky S-61 disaster: helicopter crash off the Isles of Scilly, causing 20 fatalities.
1990 - In the Philippines, an earthquake measuring 7.7 on the Richter Scale kills over 1600.
1993 - Slackware 1.00 is released.
1994 - The planet Jupiter is hit by fragments of the Shoemaker-Levy 9 comet.
1994 - The civil war in Rwanda ends.
1997 - The Dow Jones Industrial Average gains 63.17 to close at 8,038.88, closing above 8,000 for the first time.
1999 - John F. Kennedy Jr., his wife Carolyn Bessette Kennedy, and sister-in-law Lauren Bessette are killed in a plane crash off the coast of Martha's Vineyard. The Piper Saratoga aircraft was piloted by Kennedy.
2001 - The People's Republic of China and the Russian Federation sign the Treaty of Good-Neighborliness and Friendly Cooperation.
2001 - The FBI arrests Dmitry Sklyarov at a convention in Las Vegas, Nevada for violating a provision of the DMCA.
2003 - The Corsicans reject a referendum for increased autonomy from France by a very thin majority: 50.98 percent against, and 49.02 percent for.
2004 - Millennium Park, considered the first and most ambitious architectural project in the early 21st century for Chicago, Illinois, is opened to the public by Mayor of Chicago Richard M. Daley.
2004 - Barclays Bank freezes the bank accounts of the British National Party.
2004 - A fire at a private school in Kumbakonam, India kills over 90 children.
2006 - 2006 Israel-Lebanon-Hezbollah conflict: Hezbollah militants hit the Israeli port city of Haifa, with Fajr-3 rockets, killing eight Israelis.

Births

1194 - Clare of Assisi, Italian follower of Francis of Assisi (d. 1253)
1486 - Andrea del Sarto, Italian painter (d. 1530)
1611 - Archduchess Cecilia Renata of Austria, Queen of Poland
1714 - Marc René, marquis de Montalembert, French military engineer (d. 1800)
1722 - Joseph Wilton, English sculptor (d. 1803)
1723 - Joshua Reynolds, English painter (d. 1792)
1731 - Samuel Huntington, Continental Congress president (d. 1796)
1796 - Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot, French painter (d. 1875)
1821 - Mary Baker Eddy, American religious leader (d. 1910)
1858 - Eugène Ysaÿe, Belgian violinist (d. 1931)
1862 - Ida B. Wells, American journalist (d. 1931)
1870 - Lambert McKenna, Irish scholar (d. 1956)
1872 - Roald Amundsen, Norwegian explorer (d. 1928)
1884 - Anna Vyrubova, Russian memoirist (d. 1964)
1888 - Percy Kilbride, American actor (d. 1964)
1888 - Frits Zernike, Dutch physicist, Nobel laureate (d. 1966)
1889 - Shoeless Joe Jackson, American baseball player (d. 1951)
1889 - Larry Semon, comedian (d. 1928)
1896 - Trygve Lie, first United Nations Secretary General (d. 1968)
1896 - Evelyn Preer, American actress (d. 1932)
1902 - Alexander Luria, Russian psychologist (d. 1977)
1903 - Carmen Lombardo, Canadian musician (d. 1971)
1903 - Mary Philbin, American actress (d. 1993)
1906 - Vincent Sherman, American director (d. 2006)
1907 - Orville Redenbacher, American farmer and businessman (d. 1995)
1907 - Barbara Stanwyck, American actress (d. 1990)
1911 - Ginger Rogers, American actress and dancer (d. 1995)
1911 - Sonny Tufts, American actor (d. 1970)
1915 - Barnard Hughes, American actor (d. 2006)
1919 - Choi Kyuha, President of South Korea
1924 - Bess Myerson, American beauty queen
1925 - Cal Tjader, American musician (d. 1982)
1926 - Irwin Rose, American biologist, Nobel laureate
1932 - Richard Thornburgh, American politician
1936 - Buddy Merrill, American musician (The Lawrence Welk Show)
1939 - Mariele Ventre, Italian choir director (d. 1995)
1941 - Desmond Dekker, Jamaican musician (d. 2006)
1942 - Margaret Smith Court, Australian tennis player
1943 - Reinaldo Arenas, Cuban poet (d. 1990)
1945 - Victor Sloan, Irish visual artist
1946 - Ron Yary, American football player
1947 - Assata Shakur, American activist
1948 - Rubén Blades, Panamanian actor
1948 - Pinchas Zukerman, Israeli violinist
1952 - Stewart Copeland, American musician
1956 - Tony Kushner, American playwright
1957 - Alexandra Marinina, Russian writer
1958 - Pierre Roland Renoir, Canadian artist
1959 - Gary Anderson, American football player
1963 - Phoebe Cates, American actress
1963 - Srečko Katanec, Slovenian footballer and coach
1963 - Fatboy Slim, English musician
1964 - Phil Hellmuth, American poker player
1964 - Miguel Induráin, Spanish cyclist
1967 - Will Ferrell, American comedian
1967 - Christopher Rocancourt, French con artist
1968 - Dhanraj Pillay, Indian field hockey player
1968 - Barry Sanders, American football player
1968 - Larry Sanger, American co-founder of Wikipedia
1970 - Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Thai film director
1971 - Corey Feldman, American actor
1973 - Stefano Garzelli, Italian cyclist
1976 - Anna Smashnova, Israeli tennis player
1982 - Michael Umaña, Costa Rican footballer

Deaths

1324 - Emperor Go-Uda of Japan (b. 1267)
1342 - King Charles I of Hungary
1546 - Anne Askew, English protestant (burned at the stake) (b. 1521)
1557 - Anne of Cleves, fourth wife of Henry VIII of England (b. 1515)
1630 - Charles Emmanuel I, Duke of Savoy (b. 1562)
1647 - Masaniello, Italian rebel (b. 1622)
1664 - Andreas Gryphius, German writer (b. 1616)
1686 - John Pearson, English theologian (b. 1612)
1691 - François-Michel le Tellier, Marquis de Louvois, French war minister (b. 1641)
1729 - Johann David Heinichen, German composer (b. 1683)
1770 - Francis Cotes, English painter (b. 1726)
1831 - Louis Alexandre Andrault de Langeron, Russian general (b. 1763)
1796 - George Howard, British field marshal (b. 1718)
1882 - Mary Todd Lincoln, First Lady of the United States (b. 1818)
1916 - Ilya Ilyich Mechnikov, Russian microbiologist, Nobel laureate (b. 1845)
1917 - Philipp Scharwenka, Polish-German composer (b. 1847)
1949 - Vyacheslav Ivanov, Russian poet (b. 1866)
1953 - Hilaire Belloc, French writer (b. 1870)
1960 - Albert Kesselring, German field marshal (b. 1881)
1979 - Alfred Deller, English countertenor (b. 1912)
1981 - Harry Chapin, American musician (b. 1942)
1985 - Heinrich Böll, German writer, Nobel laureate (b. 1917)
1989 - Herbert von Karajan, Austrian conductor (b. 1908)

1991 - Robert Motherwell, American painter (b. 1915)
1991 - Frank Rizzo, American politican (b. 1920)
1994 - Julian Schwinger, American physicist, Nobel laureate (b. 1918)
1995 - Stephen Spender, British poet (b. 1909)
1996 - John Panozzo, American musician (STYX) (b. 1948)
1998 - John Henrik Clarke, American historian and scholar (b. 1915)
1999 - Carolyn Bessette Kennedy, wife of John F. Kennedy Jr. (b. 1966)
1999 - John F. Kennedy Jr., American publisher (b. 1960)
2001 - Maurice De Bevere, Belgian cartoonist (b. 1923)
2001 - Terry Gordy, Professional wrestler (b. 1961)
2002 - John Cocke, American computer scientist (b. 1925)
2003 - Celia Cruz, Cuban musician (b. 1924)
2003 - Carol Shields, Canadian author (b. 1935)
2005 - Pietro Consagra, Italian sculptor (b. 1920)
2005 - Prince Gu of Korea (b. 1931)
2006 - Bob Orton, Sr., American wrestler (b. 1929)

Holidays and observances

Botswana - President's Day (2nd day).
Catholic - Feast of Our Lady of Mount Carmel.
United States - National Ice Cream Day, as made official by President Ronald Reagan.

External links

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