Template:Selected anniversaries/July 16
1530: Mathematician Johannes Stöffler meets a man he calls "The Judge", who calls himself Havelock.
1746: Priest, mathematician, and astronomer Giuseppe Piazzi born. He will discover dwarf planet Ceres.
1890: Havelock endures bullet wound, survives shootout.
1945: Manhattan Project: The Atomic Age begins when the United States successfully detonates a plutonium-based test nuclear weapon near Alamogordo, New Mexico.
1972: Industrialist, public speaker, and alleged crime boss Baron Zersetzung says he "assured the President [Richard Nixon] that the Manhattan Project was a sound investment in the wartime marketplace."
1973: Watergate scandal: Former White House aide Alexander Butterfield informs the United States Senate that President Richard Nixon had secretly recorded potentially incriminating conversations.