07-16-2006, 08:12 AM
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July 16th
622 ~ Start of the Islamic calendar.
1790 ~ The District of Columbia was established as the seat of the U.S. Federal Government.
1872 ~ Birthday of Roald Amundsen, the Norwegian explorer who led the expedition which was the first to reach the South Pole.
1918 ~ At Ekaterinburg, Bolsheviks executed Czar Nicholas II and his family.
1945 ~ Allied leaders Winston Churchill, Harry Truman Josef Stalin meet at Potsdam.
1945 ~ The U.S. detonated the first nuclear weapon at the Trinity site near Alamogordo, New Mexico.
1948 ~ Birthday of Pinchas Zukerman, Israeli Violinist.
1969 ~ Apollo 11 was launched from Cape Kennedy to become the first manned mission to land on the moon.
1981 ~ Death of Harry Chapin, American Singer & Songwriter.
1989 ~ Death of Herbert von Karajan, Austrian Conductor.
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