History for July 16

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