Barbara Stanwyck 1907
- 1790 - The District of Columbia, or Washington, DC, was established as the permanent seat of the United States Government.
- 1926 - The first underwater color photographs appeared in "National Geographic" magazine. The pictures had been taken near the Florida Keys.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1979 - Saddam Hussein became president of Iraq after forcing Hasan al-Bakr to resign.
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