On July 16, 2002, President George W.

On July 16, 1999, John F.

More than 1,000 people are killed when a 7.

On July 16 ,1973—a little more than a year after the break-in at the Watergate Hotel led to a widening scandal—explosive news is revealed during a live broadcast of the Watergate hearings in the Senate: A secret taping system inside the White House had recorded all of President Richard Nixon’s telephone calls and in-person conversations.

At 9:32 a.m. EDT, Apollo 11, the first U.

J.D. Salinger’s only full-length novel, The Catcher in the Rye, is published by Little, Brown on July 16, 1951.

The world’s first parking meter, known as Park-O-Meter No.

He became known as the ‘Latin lover’ – Hollywood’s first silent screen sex symbol adored by women across the world. But fate would be cruel to Rudolph Valentino

On July 16, 1790, in signing the Residence Act, the young American Congress declares that a swampy, humid, muddy and mosquito-infested site on the Potomac River between Maryland and Virginia will be the nation’s permanent capital.

Father Junípero Serra, a Spanish Franciscan missionary, founds the first Catholic mission in California on the site of present-day San Diego.