Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/July 16
This is a list of selected July 16 anniversaries that appear in the "On this day" section of the Main Page. To suggest a new item, in most cases, you can be bold and edit this page. Please read the selected anniversaries guidelines before making your edit. However, if your addition might be controversial or on a day that is or will soon be on the Main Page, please post your suggestion on the talk page instead.
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Impact site of Shoemaker-Levy 9's fragment G on Jupiter's cloud-tops -
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"Trinity", the first nuclear test explosion -
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Millennium Park -
Portrait of Joseph II, Holy Roman Emperor, by Pierre-Joseph Lion -
The Declaration of State Sovereignty of Ukraine marked on a 1991 USSR postage stamp -
David Farragut -
Mission San Diego de Alcalá
Ineligible
| Blurb | Reason |
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| Feast day of Our Lady of Mount Carmel (Roman Catholic Church); | refimprove section |
| 622 – The epoch of the Islamic calendar occurred, marking the year that Muhammad began his Hijra from Mecca to Medina. | refimprove section |
| 1779 – American Revolutionary War: A select force of Continental Army infantry made a surprise night attack and captured a fortified position of the British Army on the Hudson River south of West Point, New York. | refimprove section |
| 1782 – Mozart's opera Die Entführung aus dem Serail made its premiere, after which Emperor Joseph II anecdotally made the comment that it had "too many notes". | refimprove sections |
| 1862 – David Farragut became the first person to be promoted to the rank of rear admiral in the United States Navy. | refimprove section |
| 1979 – Saddam Hussein replaced the resigning Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr as President of Iraq, after having gradually usurped power from his cousin. | refimprove section |
| 1981 – Mahathir Mohamad was sworn in as Malaysia's fourth prime minister, a post which he held for 22 years, making him the country's longest-serving one. | refimprove section |
| 1990 – The parliament of Ukrainian SSR adopted the Declaration of State Sovereignty of Ukraine. | stub |
| 1990 – A 7.8 MS earthquake struck the densely populated Philippine island of Luzon, killing an estimated 1,621 people. | refimprove |
| 1999 – John F. Kennedy Jr., his wife Carolyn Bessette Kennedy, and sister-in-law Lauren Bessette were killed in a plane crash off the coast of Martha's Vineyard. | refimprove section |
| 2001 – Russia and the People's Republic of China signed the Treaty of Good-Neighborliness and Friendly Cooperation, a twenty-year strategic treaty. | no footnotes |
Eligible
- 1769 – Spanish friar Junípero Serra founded Mission San Diego de Alcalá (pictured), the first Franciscan mission in the Alta California region of New Spain.
- 1790 – U.S. President George Washington signed the Residence Act, selecting a new permanent site along the Potomac River for the capital of the United States, which later became Washington, D.C.
- 1950 – Korean War: A Korean People's Army unit massacred twenty-one U.S. Army prisoners of war.
- 1951 – The Catcher in the Rye, an American coming-of-age novel by J. D. Salinger, was first published.
- 1983 – A British Airways Sikorsky S-61 helicopter crashed in the Celtic Sea in thick fog, killing 20 of the 26 on board, and sparking a review of helicopter safety in the United Kingdom.
- 1994 – Fragments of Comet Shoemaker–Levy 9 began hitting the planet Jupiter (impact site pictured), with the first one causing a fireball which reached a peak temperature of about 24,000 K.
- 2004 – Chicago's Millennium Park, currently the world's largest rooftop garden, opened.
- 2007 – A magnitude 6.6 MW earthquake struck Niigata Prefecture, Japan, causing a leak of radioactive gases from the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa Nuclear Power Plant.
- 2008 – A tainted milk powder scandal broke in China which ultimately involved an estimated 300,000 victims, the vast majority infants, with 54,000 hospitalized with kidney problems and 6 deaths.
- Born/died: Fulrad (d. 784) · An-Nasir Ahmad of Egypt (d. 1344) · Meinhardt Schomberg (d. 1719) · Anna Vyrubova (b. 1884) · Ellen G. White (d. 1915) · Assata Shakur (b. 1947) · Ratna Sarumpaet (b. 1948) · Albert Kesselring (d. 1960) · Larry Sanger (b. 1968)
Time magazine cover
- 1232 – A local mosque elected Muhammad ibn Al-Ahmar, who later established the last Muslim state in Spain, as ruler of Arjona.
- 1931 – Ethiopian Emperor Haile Selassie (pictured) signed the nation's first constitution, intended to officially replace the Fetha Nagast, which had been the supreme law since the Middle Ages.
- 1945 – Manhattan Project: Trinity, the first nuclear test explosion, was carried out near Alamogordo, New Mexico.
- 1965 – South Vietnamese Colonel Phạm Ngọc Thảo—an undetected communist spy—was reported dead due to injuries sustained during his capture, but it is generally assumed he was killed on the orders of military officials.
- 2013 – At least 23 students died and dozens more fell ill at a primary school in the village of Dharmashati Gandaman in the Saran district of the Indian state of Bihar after eating a Midday Meal contaminated with pesticide.
Meinhardt Schomberg (d. 1719) · Mildred Lewis Rutherford (b. 1851) · Alexis Herman (b. 1947)