July 16
622 – The beginning of the Islamic calendar. (The first year was the year during which the emigration of the Islamic prophet Muhammad from Mecca to Medina, known as the Hijra, occurred.)
1661 – The first banknotes in Europe are issued by the Swedish bank Stockholms Banco.
1782 – First performance of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's opera Die Entführung aus dem Serail. (
The Abduction from the Seraglio)
1910 – John Robertson Duigan makes the first flight of the Duigan pusher biplane, the first aircraft built in Australia.
1915 – Henry James becomes a British citizen, to highlight his commitment to England during the first World War.
1935 – The world's first parking meter is installed in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.
1951 – The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger is published for the first time by Little, Brown and Company.
1965 – The Mont Blanc Tunnel linking France and Italy opens.
1979 – Iraqi President Hasan al-Bakr resigns and is replaced by Saddam Hussein.
1999 – John F. Kennedy, Jr., piloting a Piper Saratoga aircraft, dies when his plane crashes into the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Martha's Vineyard. His wife Carolyn Bessette Kennedy and sister-in-law Lauren Bessette are also killed.
1872 – Roald Amundsen, Norwegian polar explorer bt (d. 1928)
(souce: wikipedia)