July 16: Feast day of Our Lady of Mount Carmel (Roman Catholic Church)
Haile Selassie
- 1782 – Mozart's opera Die Entführung aus dem Serail made its premiere, after which Emperor Joseph II anecdotally made the comment that it had "too many notes".
- 1862 – David Farragut became the first person to be promoted to the rank of rear admiral in the United States Navy.
- 1931 – Emperor of Ethiopia Haile Selassie (pictured) signed the nation's first constitution, the first time in history that an absolute ruler voluntarily sought to share sovereignty with his subjects.
- 1990 – A 7.8 MS earthquake struck the densely populated Philippine island of Luzon, killing an estimated 1,621 people.
- 2008 – Sixteen infants in Gansu Province, China, were diagnosed with kidney stones due to tainted milk powder; overall 300,000 infants were affected.
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