User:Hawkeye7/War/Selected anniversaries/July 16

July 16

 * 1779 - American Revolutionary War: United States forces led by General Anthony Wayne capture Stony Point, New York from British troops.
 * 1862 - American Civil War: David G. Farragut becomes the first United States Navy rear admiral.
 * 1945 - Manhattan Project: The Atomic Age begins when the United States successfully detonates a plutonium-based test nuclear weapon at the Trinity site near Alamogordo, New Mexico.