Editing July 16 (section)

===1901–present===
*[[1909]] &ndash; [[Persian Constitutional Revolution]]: [[Mohammad Ali Shah Qajar]] is forced out as Shah of Persia and is replaced by his son [[Ahmad Shah Qajar]].<ref>{{cite book|author1=Ahmad Hasan Dani|author2=Unesco|title=History of Civilizations of Central Asia|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0ckDZStRFfEC|year=1992|publisher=Unesco|isbn=978-92-3-103985-0|page=476}}</ref>
*[[1910]] &ndash; [[John Robertson Duigan]] makes the first flight of the [[Duigan pusher biplane]], the first aircraft built in Australia.
*[[1915]] &ndash; [[Henry James]] becomes a British citizen to highlight his commitment to Britain during the first World War.
*  1915   &ndash; At 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.<ref>{{cite magazine|first=Dick|last=Pryce|title=Return to Treasure Island|magazine=Boys' Life |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lmYEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA24|date=May 1981|publisher=Boy Scouts of America|pages=24|issn=0006-8608}}</ref>
*[[1927]] &ndash; [[Augusto César Sandino]] leads a raid on U.S. Marines and Nicaraguan Guardia Nacional that had been sent to apprehend him in the village of [[Ocotal]], but is repulsed by one of the first [[Dive bomber|dive-bombing]] attacks in history.
*[[1931]] &ndash; [[Emperor of Ethiopia|Emperor]] [[Haile Selassie]] signs the [[1931 Constitution of Ethiopia|first constitution of Ethiopia]].
*[[1935]] &ndash; The world's first [[parking meter]] is installed in [[Oklahoma City|Oklahoma City, Oklahoma]].
*[[1941]] &ndash; [[Joe DiMaggio]] hits safely for the [[Joe DiMaggio's 56-game hitting streak|56th consecutive game]], a streak that still stands as an [[Major League Baseball|MLB]] record.
*[[1942]] &ndash; [[The Holocaust|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 [[Vélodrome d'Hiver]] in Paris before deportation to [[Auschwitz concentration camp|Auschwitz]].
*[[1945]] &ndash; [[Manhattan Project]]: The [[Atomic Age]] begins when the United States [[Trinity (nuclear test)|successfully detonates]] a [[plutonium]]-based test [[nuclear weapon]] near [[Alamogordo, New Mexico]].
*  1945   &ndash; World War II: The [[heavy cruiser]] {{USS|Indianapolis|CA-35|6}} leaves San Francisco with parts for the atomic bomb "[[Little Boy]]" bound for [[Tinian|Tinian Island]].
*[[1948]] &ndash; Following token resistance, the city of [[Nazareth]], revered by Christians as the hometown of [[Jesus]], capitulates to [[Israel]]i troops during [[Operation Dekel]] in the [[1948 Arab–Israeli War]].
*  1948   &ndash; 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.
*[[1950]] &ndash; [[Chaplain–Medic massacre]]: American POWs are massacred by North Korean Army.
*1950 &ndash; [[Uruguay national football team|Uruguay]] beats [[Brazil national football team|Brazil]] [[Uruguay v Brazil (1950 FIFA World Cup)|2–1]], to win the [[1950 FIFA World Cup|1950 World Cup]] hat has been dubbed the [[Maracanazo]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.soccerphile.com/soccerphile/news/greatest-upsets.html |title=Football's 20 Greatest Upsets |work=Soccerphile |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20061113142039/http://www.soccerphile.com/soccerphile/news/greatest-upsets.html |archivedate=13 November 2006 }}</ref>
*[[1951]] &ndash; King [[Leopold III of Belgium]] abdicates in favor of his son, [[Baudouin of Belgium]].
*  1951   &ndash; [[J. D. Salinger]] publishes his popular yet controversial novel, ''[[The Catcher in the Rye]]''.<ref name="burgernyt">{{cite news|last=Burger|first=Nash K.|date=July 16, 1951|title=Books of The Times|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/books/98/09/13/specials/salinger-rye02.html|access-date=March 18, 2009}}</ref>
*[[1956]] &ndash; [[Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus]] closes its last "Big Tent" show in [[Pittsburgh|Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania]]; due to changing economics, all subsequent circus shows will be held in arenas.
*[[1957]] &ndash; [[KLM Flight 844]] crashes off the [[Schouten Islands]] in present day [[Indonesia]] (then [[Netherlands New Guinea]]), killing 58 people.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Ranter|first=Harro|title=ASN Aircraft accident Lockheed L-1049C-55-81 Super Constellation PH-LKT Biak-Mokmer Airport (BIK)|url=https://aviation-safety.net/database/record.php?id=19570716-0|access-date=2021-07-15|website=aviation-safety.net|publisher=[[Aviation Safety Network]]}}</ref>
*[[1965]] &ndash; The [[Mont Blanc Tunnel]] linking France and Italy opens.
*  1965   &ndash; [[Army of the Republic of Vietnam|South Vietnamese]] Colonel [[Phạm Ngọc Thảo]], a formerly undetected [[People's Army of Vietnam|communist spy and double agent]], is hunted down and killed by unknown individuals after being sentenced to death ''in absentia'' for a [[1965 South Vietnamese coup|February 1965 coup attempt]] against [[Nguyễn Khánh]].
* [[1969]] – The [[Apollo 11]] lunar landing mission is launched from [[Cape Canaveral|Cape Kennedy]] in Florida, USA.<ref>
* {{cite book
	| last = Mailer
	| first = Norman
	| author-link = Norman Mailer
	| date = 2014
	| orig-date = 1970
	| title = [[Of a Fire on the Moon|A Fire on the Moon]]
	| location = London
	| publisher = [[Penguin Classics]]
	| pages = 67–86, 166-176
	| isbn = 978-0-141-39496-1
}}
* {{cite book
	| last = Collins 
	| first = Michael
	| author-link = Michael Collins (astronaut)
	| date = 2019
	| orig-date = 1974
	| title = [[Carrying the Fire]]
	| location = New York
	| publisher = [[Farrar, Straus and Giroux]]
	| pages = 355–366
	| isbn = 978-0-374-53776-0
}}</ref>
*[[1979]] &ndash; [[President of Iraq|Iraqi President]] [[Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr]] resigns and is replaced by [[Saddam Hussein]].
*[[1983]] &ndash; [[1983 British Airways Sikorsky S-61 crash|Sikorsky S-61 disaster]]: A helicopter crashes off the [[Isles of Scilly]], causing 20 fatalities.
*[[1990]] &ndash; The [[1990 Luzon earthquake|Luzon earthquake]] strikes the [[Philippines]] with an intensity of 7.7, affecting [[Benguet]], [[Pangasinan]], [[Nueva Ecija]], [[La Union]], [[Aurora (province)|Aurora]], [[Bataan]], [[Zambales]] and [[Tarlac]].
*  1990   &ndash; The [[Verkhovna Rada|Parliament of the Ukrainian SSR]] [[Declaration of State Sovereignty of Ukraine|declares state sovereignty]] over the territory of the [[Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic|Ukrainian SSR]].
*[[1994]] &ndash; The comet [[Comet Shoemaker–Levy 9|Shoemaker-Levy 9]] is destroyed in a head-on collision with [[Jupiter]].<ref>{{Cite web|last=January 2018|first=Elizabeth Howell 24|title=Shoemaker-Levy 9: Comet's Impact Left Its Mark on Jupiter|url=https://www.space.com/19855-shoemaker-levy-9.html|access-date=2021-07-16|website=Space.com|date=24 January 2018 |language=en}}</ref>
*[[1999]] &ndash; [[John F. Kennedy Jr.|John F. Kennedy Jr]]., his wife, [[Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy]], and her sister, Lauren Bessette, [[John F. Kennedy Jr. plane crash|die when the aircraft]] he is piloting crashes into the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Martha's Vineyard.
*[[2004]] &ndash; [[Millennium Park]], considered Chicago's first and most ambitious early 21st-century architectural project, is opened to the public by [[Mayor of Chicago|Mayor]] [[Richard M. Daley]].
*[[2005]] &ndash; An [[Antonov An-24]] [[2005 Equatorial Express Airlines An-24 crash|crashes]] near [[Baney]] in [[Bioko Norte]], [[Equatorial Guinea]], killing 60 people.<ref name="ASN">{{Cite web |last=Ranter |first=Harro |title=ASN Aircraft accident Antonov An-24B 3C-VQR Baney |url=https://aviation-safety.net/database/record.php?id=20050716-0 |access-date=2022-07-13 |website=aviation-safety.net}}</ref>
*[[2007]] &ndash; An [[2007 Chūetsu offshore earthquake|earthquake]] of magnitude 6.8 and 6.6 aftershock occurs off the [[Niigata (city)|Niigata]] coast of Japan killing eight people, injuring at least 800 and damaging a nuclear power plant.
*[[2009]] &ndash; [[Teoh Beng Hock]], an aide to a politician in [[Malaysia]] is found dead on the rooftop of a building adjacent to the offices of the [[Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission|Anti-Corruption Commission]], sparking an [[inquest]] that gains nationwide attention.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Nazari|first=Tasneem|title=The Mysterious Death of Teoh Beng Hock: What We Know So Far {{!}} TRP|url=https://www.therakyatpost.com/2019/11/19/special-task-force-to-investigate-teoh-beng-hocks-death-case-recap/|access-date=2021-06-17|website=www.therakyatpost.com/|date=19 November 2019 |language=en-US}}</ref>
*[[2013]] &ndash; As many as 27 children die and 25 others are hospitalized after [[Bihar school meal poisoning incident|eating lunch]] served at their school in eastern India.
*  2013   &ndash; [[Syrian civil war]]: The [[Battle of Ras al-Ayn (2012–13)|Battle of Ras al-Ayn]] resumes between the [[People's Protection Units]] (YPG) and Islamist forces, beginning the [[Rojava–Islamist conflict]].<ref>{{cite book|last= Lister|first=  Charles R.|title= The Syrian Jihad: Al-Qaeda, the Islamic State and the Evolution of an Insurgency|url= https://books.google.com/books?id=S6eKCwAAQBAJ|date= 2015|publisher= [[Oxford University Press]]|location= [[Oxford]]|isbn= 9780190462475|page=96}}</ref>
*[[2015]] &ndash; Four [[United States Marine Corps|U.S. Marines]] and one gunman die in [[2015 Chattanooga shootings|a shooting spree]] targeting military installations in [[Chattanooga, Tennessee]].
*[[2019]] &ndash; A 100-year-old building in [[Mumbai]], India, collapses, killing at least 10 people and leaving many others trapped.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-49001456|website=BBC News|title=India building collapse: Many trapped and 10 dead in Mumbai|date=2019-07-16}}</ref>