July 16 (Reuters) – Following are some of the major events to have occurred on July 16:
1935 – The world’s first parking meters were installed in Oklahoma City.
1951 – King Leopold III of Belgium abdicates.
1969 – Apollo 11 took off on its historic mission to land men on the moon with astronauts Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins aboard.
1989 – The Austrian conductor Herbert von Karajan died.
1999 – A plane carrying John F. Kennedy Jr, his wife and her sister crashed off the Massachusetts island of Martha’s Vineyard, killing all on board.
2001 – Juan Antonio Samaranch, president of the International Olympic Committee since 1980, retired and was succeeded by the Belgian surgeon Jacques Rogge.
2003 – The government of Sao Tome and Principe was toppled in a military coup while the president of the potentially oil-rich island state was out of the country.
2004 – Homemaking maven Martha Stewart sentenced to prison after stock sale.
2005 – “Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince”, the sixth volume of the Harry Potter saga, went on sale. It sold more than 8.9 million copies in the first 24 hours in the United States and Britain to become the fastest-selling book in history.
2007 – Former Bangladesh prime minister Sheikh Hasina was arrested at her home in the capital and sent to jail to face extortion charges.
2015 – Four Marines killed in shooting spree at Armed Forces Career Center in Chattanooga, Tennessee.
