Thursday, July 16, 2015

History for July 16

History for July 16 - On-This-Day.com:
Mary Baker Eddy 1821, Roald Amundsen 1872, Orville Redenbacher 1907 


Michael Flatley 1958, Will Ferrell 1967, Barry Sanders 1968 


1790 - The District of Columbia, or Washington, DC, was established as the permanent seat of the United States Government. 


1862 - David G. Farragut became the first rear admiral in the U.S. Navy. 


1935 - Oklahoma City became the first city in the U.S. to install parking meters. 


1940 - Adolf Hitler ordered the preparations to begin on the invasion of England, known as Operation Sea Lion. 


1942 - French police officers rounded up 13,000 Jews and held them in the Winter Velodrome. The round-up was part of an agreement between Pierre Laval and the Nazis. Germany had agreed to not deport French Jews if France arrested foreign Jews. 


1945 - The United States detonated the first atomic bomb in a test at Alamogordo, NM. 


1951 - J.D. Salinger's novel "The Catcher in the Rye" was first published. 


1969 - Apollo 11 blasted off from Cape Kennedy, FL, and began the first manned mission to land on the moon. 


1979 - Saddam Hussein became president of Iraq after forcing Hasan al-Bakr to resign. 






1981 - After 23 years with the name Datsun, executives of Nissan changed the name of their cars to Nissan. 

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