16th July anniversaries

• Birth
  • 1722
  • Great Britain
  • "Birth of Joseph Wilton, sculpture"
  • 1723
  • Great Britain
  • "Birth of Sir Joshua Reynolds, painter"
  • 1821
  • United States
  • "Birth of Mary Baker Eddy, founder of Christian Science"
  • 1858
  • Belgium
  • "Birth of Eugène Ysaÿe, Belgian violinist, composer and conductor ."
  • 1872
  • Norway
  • "Birth of Roald Amundsen, polar explorer" more
  • 1896
  • Norway
  • "Birth of Trygve Lie, first Secretary General of the UN"
  • 1907
  • United States
  • "Birth of Barbara Stanwyck, actress"
• event
  • 1661
  • Sweden
  • The first banknotes in Europe were issied by the bank of sweden
  • 1867
  • France
  • Reinforced concrete was patented by Joseph Monier of France
  • 1945
  • United States
  • First atomic bomb was exploded (at Los Alamos).
  • 1965
  • France
  • The Mont Blanc Tunnel opened
  • 1969
  • United States
  • "NASA launched Apollo 11, the first manned mission to the Moon"
  • 1979
  • Iraq
  • Saddam Hussein became President of Iraq
  • 1993
  • Great Britain
  • "MI5, Britain’s internal security service, publicly revealed details of its activities, and the identity of its Director-General, Stella Rimington."
  • 1994
  • Rwanda
  • The civil war in Rwanda ended
  • 1994
  • Fragments of the comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 began colliding with Jupiter
• Death
  • 1546
  • Great Britain
  • "Martyrdom of Anne Askewe, Protestant"
  • 1557
  • Great Britain
  • "Death of Anne of Cleves, wife of Henry VIII"
  • 1918
  • Russian Federation
  • "Death of Tsar Nicholas II of Russia and his entire family, murdered by Bolsheviks at Ekaterinburg."
  • 1953
  • Great Britain
  • "Death of Hilaire Belloc, writer"
  • 1989
  • Germany
  • "Death of Herbert von Karajan, conductor"
  • 1999
  • United States
  • "Death of John F. Kennedy, Jr., American publisher, killed in a plane crash with his wife Carolyn Bessette Kennedy and sister-in-law Lauren Bessette"