About July 16
July 16, 2025 is the 197th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 168 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Wednesday.
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Cancer is the sun sign of a person born on this day. Ruby is the modern birthstone for this month. Ruby is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 216 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On July 16
- 622 –The beginning of the Islamic calendar.
- 1782 –First performance of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s opera Die Entführung aus dem Serail.
- 1790 –The District of Columbia is established as the capital of the United States after signature of the Residence Act.
- 1862 –American Civil War: David Farragut is promoted to rear admiral, becoming the first officer in United States Navy to hold an admiral rank.
- 1880 –Emily Stowe becomes the first female physician licensed to practice medicine in Canada.
- 1931 –Emperor Haile Selassie I signs the first constitution of Ethiopia.
- 1935 –The world’s first parking meter is installed in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.
- 1942 –Holocaust: Vel‘ d'Hiv Roundup (Rafle du Vel’d'Hiv): the government of Vichy France orders the mass arrest of 13,152 Jews who are held at the Winter Velodrome in Paris before deportation to Auschwitz.
- 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.
- 1945 –World War II: The Heavy Cruiser USS Indianapolis (CA-35) leaves San Francisco with parts for the atomic bomb “Little Boy” bound for Tinian Island. This would be the last time the Indianapolis would be seen by the Mainland she would be torpedoed by the Japanese Submarine I-58 on July 30 and sink with 880 out of 1,196 crewmen.
- 1945 –World War II: the leaders of the three Allied nations, Winston Churchill, Harry S. Truman and Joseph Stalin, meet in the German city of Potsdam to decide the future of a defeated Germany.
- 1948 –The storming of the cockpit of the Miss Macao passenger seaplane, operated by a subsidiary of the Cathay Pacific Airways, marks the first aircraft hijacking of a commercial plane.
- 1951 –The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger is published for the first time by Little, Brown and Company.
- 1951 –King Léopold III of Belgium abdicates in favor 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.
- 1969 –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.
- 1979 –Iraqi President Hasan al-Bakr resigns and is replaced by Saddam Hussein.
- 1983 –Sikorsky S-61 disaster: a helicopter crashes off the Isles of Scilly, causing 20 fatalities.
- 1990 –The Parliament of the Ukrainian SSR declares state sovereignty over the territory of the Ukrainian SSR.
- 2007 –2007 Chūetsu offshore earthquake: an earthquake of magnitude 6.8 and 6.6 aftershock occurs off the Niigata coast of Japan killing 8 people, injuring at least 800 and damaging a nuclear power plant.
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