Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/July 16

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 * 1232 – Muhammad ibn Yusuf, who later established the Emirate of Granada, the last Muslim state in Spain, was elected the ruler of Arjona.
 * 1790 – President George Washington signed the Residence Act, selecting a new permanent site along the Potomac River for the capital of the United States, which later became Washington, D.C.
 * 1931 – Ethiopian emperor Haile Selassie promulgated the nation's first modern constitution.
 * 1951 – The Catcher in the Rye, an American coming-of-age novel by J. D. Salinger, was first published.
 * 1965 – South Vietnamese Colonel Phạm Ngọc Thảo—an undetected communist spy—was reported dead due to injuries sustained during his capture, but it is generally assumed he was killed on the orders of military officials.
 * 1983 – A Sikorsky S-61 helicopter operated by British Airways crashed in thick fog in the Celtic Sea, killing 20 of the 26 people on board.
 * 2007 – An earthquake of magnitude struck Niigata Prefecture, Japan, causing a leak of radioactive gases from the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa Nuclear Power Plant.
 * 2008 – A tainted milk powder scandal broke in China which ultimately involved an estimated 300,000 victims, the vast majority infants, with 54,000 hospitalized with kidney problems and 6 deaths.
 * 2013 – At least 23 students died and dozens more fell ill at a primary school in the Indian state of Bihar after consuming a Midday Meal that was contaminated with pesticide.
 * Born/died: | Charles I of Hungary |d|1342| Al-Nasir Ahmad, Sultan of Egypt|d|1344| Meinhardt Schomberg|d|1719| Philip Wodehouse|b|1773| Sarah Allen |d|1849| Mildred Lewis Rutherford|b|1851| Ellen Oliver|b|1870| Agnes Weinrich|b|1873| Anna Vyrubova|b|1884| Ellen G. White|d|1915| Évariste Kimba|b|1926| Assata Shakur|b|1947| Alexis Herman |b|1947| Albert Kesselring|d|1960| Vecihi Hürkuş|d|1969| Julia Kronlid |b|1980| Carli Lloyd|b|1982| Gareth Bale|b|1989| Evelyn Ebsworth |d|2015|