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Events on July 16

• 1050 Nuremberg is first documented in the so-called Sigena document.
• 1782 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's German-language comic opera The Abduction from the Seraglio has its premiere at the Vienna Burgtheater. The libretto by Johann Gottlieb Stephanie is based on a singspiel by Christoph Friedrich Bretzner, who protested against the unauthorized adaptation of his work.
• 1790 The District of Columbia is created in the United States. This establishes the planned capital Washington, D.C.
• 1909 August Horch Automobilwerke GmbH Zwickau is founded.
• 1935 The world's first parking meter is installed in Oklahoma City.
• 1945 The first atomic bomb is detonated as part of the Manhattan Project during the Trinity Test at the White Sands Proving Ground near the city of Alamogordo in New Mexico.
• 1969 Apollo 11 is sent on its way for the first crewed landing on the Moon. The astronauts Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins are aboard.
• 1982 The Asylum Procedure Act (current name: Asylum Act) of the Federal Republic of Germany comes into force.
• 1990 Helmut Kohl visits Mikhail Gorbachev in the Soviet Union and negotiates with him about German reunification.
• 1999 John F. Kennedy jr. crashes into the Atlantic on a flight he is piloting himself, together with his wife Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy and her sister Lauren, shortly before reaching the destination airport.
• 2017 With his eighth victory in the Wimbledon men's final against the Croatian Marin Čilić (6:3, 6:1, 6:4), the Swiss tennis player Roger Federer wins his 19th overall Grand Slam singles title.
• 2019 The European Parliament elects Ursula von der Leyen as the first female President of the European Commission.

Born on July 16

• 1855 Rodolphe Lindt, Swiss chocolate producer
• 1872 Roald Amundsen, Norwegian polar explorer
• 1896 Trygve Lie, Norwegian jurist and politician, minister, first Secretary-General of the UN
• 1911 Ginger Rogers, American dancer and actress
• 1933 Heinz Dürr, German entrepreneur and manager
• 1941 Desmond Dekker, Jamaican singer and songwriter
• 1952 Stewart Copeland, American musician
• 1970 Tommy Jaud, German writer and screenwriter
• 1971 Bibiana Beglau, German actress
• 1971 Corey Feldman, American actor

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Source of events and birthdays: German Wikipedia article „16. Juli“, licence CC BY-SA 4.0, selected, shortened and translated by Birthday Paper.

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