Here is a list of things which happened on the 16th of July over the years:
The first banknotes in Europe are issued by the Swedish bank Stockholms Banco. (1661)
The District of Columbia is established as the capital of the United States after the signing of the Residence Act. (1790)
Dr. Emily Stowe becomes the first woman licensed to practice medicine in Canada. (1880)
The world’s first parking meter is installed in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma (1935)
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. (1942)
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. (1945)
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. (1957)
Apollo program: Apollo 11, the first manned space mission to land on the moon, is launched from the Kennedy Space Center at Cape Canaveral, Florida. (1969)
Watergate Scandal: Former White House aide Alexander P. Butterfield informs the United States Senate that President Richard Nixon had secretly recorded potentially incriminating conversations. (1973)
Iraqi President Hasan al-Bakr resigns and is replaced by Saddam Hussein. (1979)
Ronald Reagan won the Republican presidential nomination at the party’s convention in Detroit. (1980)