Historical Events -  July 16.

1661: The first banknote in Europe was issued by the Swedish bank ‘Stockholms Banco’.

1935: The world’s first parking meter installed in Oklahoma.

1969: Launching of the Apollo 11 spacecraft from Florida.

1979: Iraqi President Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr resigned and was replaced by Saddam Hussein. 

 

Famous Birthdays  – July 16

1723: Joshua Reynolds, an English painter.

1909: Aruna Asaf Ali, an Indian educator, political activist, and publisher.

1913: Swami Shantanand Saraswati, Shankaracharya of the Jyotir Math monastery.

1917: Jagdish Chandra Mathur, a Hindi playwright, and writer.

1968: Dhanraj Pillay, a retired Indian field hockey player.

1973: Shaun Pollock, a South African cricket commentator, and former cricketer.

1983: Katrina Kaif, an English-Indian actress.

 

Death Anniversaries -  July 16

1986: V. C. Bendre, an Indian historian, and author.

1993: Ustad Nissar Hussain Khan, an Indian classical vocalist from the Rampur-Sahaswan Gharana.

1994: Julian Schwinger, a Nobel Prize-winning American theoretical physicist.

2009: D. K. Pattammal, an Indian Carnatic musician and a playback singer.

2020: Neela Satyanarayanan, an Indian author and civil servant.