July 16

Track	Year	Event	Artist	Song	Album
1	1054	Three Roman legates break relations between Western and Eastern Christian Churches through the act of placing an invalidly-issued Papal Bull of Excommunication on the altar of Hagia Sophia during Saturday afternoon divine liturgy. Historians frequently describe the event as the start of the East-West Schism.	Herman's Hermits	East West	Retrospective
2	1661	The first banknotes in Europe are issued by the Swedish bank Stockholms Banco.	The Rapture	Notes	Mirror
3	1779	American Revolutionary War: light infantry of the Continental Army seize a fortified British Army position in a midnight bayonet attack at the Battle of Stony Point.	Stony Point Quartet	Pass Me Not	Band of Angels
4	1790	The District of Columbia is established as the capital of the United States after signature of the Residence Act.	Triumvirat	The Capital of Power	Spartacus
5	1935	The world's first parking meter is installed in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.	Caesars	Let's Go Parking Baby	39 Minutes of Bliss
6	1941	Joe DiMaggio hits safely for the 56th consecutive game, a streak that still stands as a MLB record.	Simon and Garfunkel	Mrs. Robinson	Bookends
7	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.	Drive Like Jehu	Atom Jack	Drive Like Jehu
8	1951	The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger is published for the first time by Little, Brown and Company.	Piebald	Holden Caufield	When Life Hands You Lemons
9	1956	Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus closes its very last "Big Tent" show in Pittsburgh, due to changing economics all subsequent circus shows will be held in arenas.	Fantasy	Circus	Paint a Picture
10	2004	Millennium Park, considered Chicago's first and most ambitious early 21st century architectural project, is opened to the public by Mayor Richard M. Daley.	On the Rise	Dawn of a New Millenium	Burning Inside

(Historical facts about July 16 are from Wikipedia.)