July 16

This day in history:

• 1661 – The first banknotes in Europe are issued by the Swedish bank Stockholms Banco.
• 1536 – Jacques Cartier, navigator and explorer, returns home to St. Malo after claiming Stadacona (Quebec), Hochelaga (Montereal) and the River of Canada (St. Lawrence River) region for France.
• 1965 – The Mont Blanc Tunnel linking France and Italy opens.
• 1927 – Augusto César Sandino leads a raid on U.S. Marines and Nicaraguan Guardia Nacional that had been sent to apprehend him in the village of Ocotal, but is repulsed by one of the first dive-bombing attacks in history.

Births:

• 1887 – Shoeless Joe Jackson, American baseball player and manager (d. 1951)
• 1970 – Serena Chen, American social psychologist
• 1722 – Joseph Wilton, English sculptor and academic (d. 1803)

Deaths:

• 1949 – Vyacheslav Ivanov, Russian poet and playwright (b. 1866)
• 1935 – Zheng Zhengqiu, Chinese filmmaker (b. 1889)
• 1546 – Anne Askew, English author and poet (b. 1520)

Holidays:

• Guinea Pig Appreciation Day
• Holocaust Memorial Day (France)
• Engineer's Day (Honduras)

Random Article of the day:

Best Kept Secrets: The Best of Lamb 1996–2004

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