This Day in History: July 16, 2024
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1790
The District of Columbia was established as the seat of the United States government.
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1918
Russia's Czar Nicholas II and his family were executed by the Bolsheviks.
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1935
The first parking meters were installed in Oklahoma City.
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1945
The first atomic bomb was tested in Alamogordo, N.M.
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1951
J. D. Salinger's novel Catcher in the Rye was published.
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1969
Apollo 11 took off on the first manned flight to the moon.
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1979
Saddam Hussein became president of Iraq.
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1999
John F. Kennedy, Jr., his wife Carolyn Bessette, and her sister Lauren, died in a plane crash near Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts.
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