This Day In History

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July 16th

1790
The District of Columbia was established as the seat of the United States government.

1918
Russia's Czar Nicholas II and his family were executed by the Bolsheviks.

1935
The first parking meters were installed in Oklahoma City.

1945
The first atomic bomb was tested in Alamogordo, N.M.

1951
J. D. Salinger's novel Catcher in the Rye was published.

1964
Little League Baseball Incorporated was granted a Federal Charter unanimously by the United States Senate and House of Representatives.

1969
Apollo 11 took off on the first manned flight to the moon.

1979
Saddam Hussein became president of Iraq.

1999
John F. Kennedy, Jr., his wife Carolyn Bessette, and her sister Lauren, died in a plane crash near Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts.

2004
Martha Stewart was sentenced to five months in prison and five months of home confinement by a federal judge in New York for lying about a stock sale.

Birthdays
75 Denise LaSalle Soul singer
70 William Bell Soul singer
70 Corin Redgrave Actor
67 Margaret Smith Court Tennis Hall of Famer
66 Jimmy Johnson Football coach
61 Ruben Blades Singer, actor
57 Stewart Copeland Rock musician (The Police)
55 Phil Hellmuth Poker player
46 Phoebe Cates Actress
44 Daryl "Chill" Mitchell Actor
42 Will Ferrell Actor
41 Barry Sanders Football Hall of Famer
40 Rain Pryor Actress
38 Corey Feldman Actor
38 Ed Kowalczyk Rock musician (Live)
35 Ryan McCombs Rock singer (Drowning Pool)
35 Chris Pontius Actor and Jackass cast member
22 AnnaLynne McCord Actress ("Nip/Tuck")
19 MikeGates Cigar Asylum Inmate
15 Mark Indelicato Actor ("Ugly Betty")

63 Shoeless Joe Jackson 7/16/1888 - 12/5/1951 American baseball player who played Major League Baseball in the early part of the 20th century, part of the 1919 Black Sox Scandel
88 Orville Redenbacher 7/16/1907 - 9/19/1995 Founder of Orville Redenbacher's Gourmet Popping Corn
83 Ginger Rogers 7/16/1911 - 4/25/1995 American stage and screen dancer and actress