July 16 birthdays & history

Famous people born on July 16

• 1872Roald Amundsen, Norwegian pilot and explorer
• 1968Larry Sanger, American philosopher and businessman, co-founded Wikipedia and Citizendium
• 1989Gareth Bale, Welsh footballer
• 1907Barbara Stanwyck, American actress
• 1983Katrina Kaif, British Indian actress and model
• 1988Sergio Busquets, Spanish footballer
• 1911Ginger Rogers, American actress, singer, and dancer
• 1936Yasuo Fukuda, Japanese politician, 91st Prime Minister of Japan
• 1967Will Ferrell, American actor, comedian, and producer
• 1796Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot, French painter and etcher

What happened on July 16

• 1232Muhammad ibn Yusuf, who later established the Emirate of Granada, the last Muslim state in Spain, was elected the ruler of Arjona.
• 1377The ten-year-old Richard II was crowned King of England at Westminster Abbey.
• 1790President 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.
• 1849Antonio María Claret y Clará founds the Congregation of the Missionary Sons of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, popularly known as the Claretians in Vic, in the province of Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain.
• 1858The last apparition of the Blessed Virgin Mary to Bernadette Soubirous in Lourdes, France.
• 1910John Robertson Duigan makes the first flight of the Duigan pusher biplane, the first aircraft built in Australia.
• 1915At Treasure Island on the Delaware River in the United States, the First Order of the Arrow ceremony takes place and the Order of the Arrow is founded to honor American Boy Scouts who best exemplify the Scout Oath and Law.
• 1916Max Reger's Hebbel Requiem was first performed in a memorial concert for the composer, conducted by Philipp Wolfrum.
• 1931Ethiopian emperor Haile Selassie promulgated the nation's first modern constitution.
• 1951The Catcher in the Rye, an American coming-of-age novel by J. D. Salinger, was published by Little, Brown.
• 1994Fragments of Comet Shoemaker–Levy 9 began colliding with the planet Jupiter , with the first impact causing a fireball that reached a peak temperature of 24,000 kelvin.
• 2004Millennium Park, a public park in Chicago, Illinois, and one of the world's largest rooftop gardens, opened to the public.

Also observed on July 16

• Engineer's Day (Honduras)