July 16 is:
National Corn Fritters Day
Feast day of Our Lady of Mount Carmel, the patron saint of fishermen.
Mission San Diego de Alcalá.was founded by Father Junípero Serra in 1769, becoming California’s first mission. It evolved into the city of San Diego, California.
Publication of Federalist Paper #84: Certain General and Miscellaneous Objections to the Constitution Considered and Answered written by Alexander Hamilton in 1788.
In 1790 the District of Columbia was established as the permanent capital of the United States.
(Difference between capitol and capital: The key is this: capitol, the one with an “o,” is very limited in use. Capitol with a capital “C” refers to the particular building in Washington, D.C. where the U.S. Congress meets. It often appears before other nouns in phrases like the Capitol building and Capitol police, and is very frequently used in the term Capitol Hill, which refers both to the legislative branch of the United States government as well as to the location of the Capitol building.
Capital with an “a” is used as capital city, capital punishment, capital letters, business capital, etc.)
During the La Paz revolution of 1809, the city of La Paz, in what is today Bolivia, declared its independence from the Spanish Crown. It formed the Junta Tuitiva, the first independent government in Spanish America and was led by Pedro Domingo Murillo.
Union troops began a 25 mile march into Virginia at President Abraham Lincoln’s order. This led to the First Battle of Bull Run which was the first major land battle of the war.
The world’s first parking meter was installed in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma on this date in 1935.
Joe DiMaggio hit safely for the 56th consecutive game in 1941, setting a hitting streak that still stands as a MLB record.
1945 –The Atomic Age began when the United States successfully detonated a plutonium-based test nuclear weapon near Alamogordo, New Mexico.
The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger was published for the first time by Little, Brown and Company in 1951.
Barry M. Goldwater, in accepting the Republican presidential nomination for 1964, said that “Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice” and “Moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.”
In 1969, the Crew of Apollo XI, Neil A. Armstrong, Edwin E. Aldrin, Jr., and Michael Collins, blasted off from Cape Kennedy on the first manned mission to the surface of the moon.
Saddam Hussein became president of Iraq on this date in 1979.
On this day in 1999, John F. Kennedy, Jr. died when his Piper Saratoga aircraft crashed into the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Martha’s Vineyard. His wife Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy and sister-in-law, Lauren Bessette, were also killed.
July 16 is the birthday of:
- Mary Baker Eddy (1821), Founder of the Church of Christ.
- Orville Redenbacher (1907), American agronomist and business founder, known as the Popcorn King.
- Ginger Rogers (1911), American actress and dancer.