History for July 16

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Ida Bell Wells 1862, Roald Amundsen 1872, Trygve Lie 1896 



Orville Redenbacher 1907, Ginger Rogers 1911, Barry Sanders 1968 


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

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


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.