| 80641 | July 16 | Event | 1915 – Henry James becomes a British citizen, to highlight his commitment to Britain during the first World War. |
| 80642 | July 16 | Event | 1915 – First Order of the Arrow ceremony takes place and the Order of the Arrow is founded. |
| 80643 | July 16 | Event | 1927 – 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-bombing attacks in history. |
| 80644 | July 16 | Event | 1931 – Emperor Haile Selassie signs the first constitution of Ethiopia. |
| 80645 | July 16 | Event | 1935 – The world's first parking meter is installed in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. |
| 80646 | July 16 | Event | 1941 – Joe DiMaggio hits safely for the 56th consecutive game, a streak that still stands as a MLB record. |
| 80647 | July 16 | Event | 1942 – 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 Winter Velodrome in Paris before deportation to Auschwitz. |
| 80648 | July 16 | Event | 1945 – World War II: The heavy cruiser USS Indianapolis leaves San Francisco with parts for the atomic bomb "Little Boy" bound for Tinian Island. |
| 80649 | July 16 | Event | 1945 – Manhattan Project: The Atomic Age begins when the United States successfully detonates a plutonium-based test nuclear weapon near Alamogordo, New Mexico. |
| 80650 | July 16 | Event | 1948 – Following token resistance, the city of Nazareth, revered by Christians as the hometown of Jesus, capitulates to Israeli troops during Operation Dekel in the 1948 Arab–Israeli War. |
| 80651 | July 16 | Event | 1948 – 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. |
| 80652 | July 16 | Event | 1950 – Chaplain–Medic massacre: American POWs were massacred by North Korean Army. |
| 80653 | July 16 | Event | 1951 – King Leopold III of Belgium abdicates in favor of his son, Baudouin I of Belgium. |
| 80654 | July 16 | Event | 1951 – The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger is published for the first time by Little, Brown and Company. |
| 80655 | July 16 | Event | 1956 – Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus closes its very last "Big Tent" show in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, due to changing economics all subsequent circus shows will be held in arenas. |
| 80656 | July 16 | Event | 1960 – USS George Washington a modified Skipjack-class submarine successfully test fires the first ballistic missile while submerged. |
| 80657 | July 16 | Event | 1965 – The Mont Blanc Tunnel linking France and Italy opens. |
| 80658 | July 16 | Event | 1965 – South Vietnamese Colonel Phạm Ngọc Thảo, a formerly undetected communist spy and double agent, is hunted down and killed by unknown individuals after being sentenced to death in absentia for a February 1965 coup attempt against Nguyễn Khánh. |
| 80659 | July 16 | Event | 1969 – Apollo program: Apollo 11, the first mission to land astronauts on the Moon, is launched from the Kennedy Space Center at Cape Kennedy, Florida. |
| 80660 | July 16 | Event | 1973 – Watergate scandal: Former White House aide Alexander Butterfield informs the United States Senate that President Richard Nixon had secretly recorded potentially incriminating conversations. |
| 80661 | July 16 | Event | 1979 – Iraqi President Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr resigns and is replaced by Saddam Hussein. |
| 80662 | July 16 | Event | 1981 – Mahathir Mohamad becomes Malaysia's 4th Prime Minister. |
| 80663 | July 16 | Event | 1983 – Sikorsky S-61 disaster: A helicopter crashes off the Isles of Scilly, causing 20 fatalities. |
| 80664 | July 16 | Event | 1990 – The Luzon earthquake strikes in Benguet, Pangasinan, Nueva Ecija, La Union, Aurora, Bataan, Zambales and Tarlac, Philippines, with an intensity of 7.7. |
| 80665 | July 16 | Event | 1990 – The Parliament of the Ukrainian SSR declares state sovereignty over the territory of the Ukrainian SSR. |
| 80666 | July 16 | Event | 1994 – Comet Shoemaker–Levy 9 collides with Jupiter. Impacts continue until July 22. |
| 80667 | July 16 | Event | 1999 – John F. Kennedy Jr., piloting a Piper Saratoga aircraft, dies when his plane crashes into the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Martha's Vineyard. His wife Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy and sister-in-law Lauren Bessette are also killed. |
| 80668 | July 16 | Event | 2004 – Millennium Park, considered Chicago's first and most ambitious early 21st-century architectural project, is opened to the public by Mayor Richard M. Daley. |
| 80669 | July 16 | Event | 2007 – An earthquake of magnitude 6.8 and 6.6 aftershock occurs off the Niigata coast of Japan killing eight people, injuring at least 800 and damaging a nuclear power plant. |
| 80670 | July 16 | Event | 2008 – Sixteen infants in Gansu Province, China, who had been fed on tainted milk powder, are diagnosed with kidney stones in total an estimated 300,000 infants are affected. |