Sunday, July 16, 2017

History for July 16

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History for July 16 - On-This-Day.com
Roald Amundsen 1872, Orville Redenbacher 1907, Ginger Rogers 1911
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Michael Flatley 1958, Will Ferrell 1967, Barry Sanders 1968
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1790 - The District of Columbia, or Washington, DC, was established as the permanent seat of the United States Government.
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1935 - Oklahoma City became the first city in the U.S. to install parking meters.
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1940 - Adolf Hitler ordered the preparations to begin on the invasion of England, known as Operation Sea Lion.
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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.
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1945 - The United States detonated the first atomic bomb in a test at Alamogordo, NM.
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1951 - J.D. Salinger's novel "The Catcher in the Rye" was first published.
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1969 - Apollo 11 blasted off from Cape Kennedy, FL, and began the first manned mission to land on the moon.
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1981 - After 23 years with the name Datsun, executives of Nissan changed the name of their cars to Nissan.
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