At the moment is Wednesday, July 16, the 197th day of 2024. There are 168 days left within the yr.
At the moment in historical past:
On July 16, 1945, the US exploded its first experimental atomic bomb within the desert of Alamogordo, New Mexico; the identical day, the heavy cruiser USS Indianapolis left Mare (mar-AY’) Island Naval Shipyard in California on a secret mission to ship atomic bomb parts to Tinian Island within the Marianas.
Additionally on this date:
In 1790, a website alongside the Potomac River was designated the everlasting seat of the US authorities; the realm grew to become Washington, D.C.
In 1862, Flag Officer David G. Farragut grew to become the primary rear admiral in the US Navy.
In 1951, the novel “The Catcher within the Rye” by J.D. Salinger was first printed by Little, Brown and Co.
In 1957, Marine Corps Maj. John Glenn set a transcontinental velocity document by flying a Vought F8U Crusader jet from California to New York in 3 hours, 23 minutes and eight.4 seconds.
In 1964, as he accepted the Republican presidential nomination in San Francisco, Barry M. Goldwater declared that “extremism within the protection of liberty is not any vice” and that “moderation within the pursuit of justice is not any advantage.”
In 1969, Apollo 11 launched from Cape Kennedy in Florida on the primary manned mission to the floor of the moon.
In 1999, John F. Kennedy Jr., his spouse, Carolyn, and her sister, Lauren Bessette, died when their single-engine airplane, piloted by Kennedy, plunged into the Atlantic Ocean close to Martha’s Winery, Massachusetts.
In 2004, Martha Stewart was sentenced to 5 months in jail and 5 months of house confinement by a federal choose in New York for mendacity a couple of inventory sale.
In 2008, Florida resident Casey Anthony, whose 2-year-old daughter, Caylee, had been lacking a month, was arrested on prices of kid neglect, making false official statements and obstructing a legal investigation. (Casey Anthony was later acquitted at trial of murdering Caylee, whose skeletal stays have been present in December 2008; Casey was convicted of mendacity to police.)
In 2015, a jury in Centennial, Colorado, convicted James Holmes of 165 counts of homicide, tried homicide and different prices within the 2012 Aurora movie show rampage that left 12 folks lifeless.
In 2017, 10 folks died at a preferred swimming gap in Arizona’s Tonto Nationwide Forest after a rainstorm unleashed a flash flood.
In 2018, after assembly with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Helsinki, President Donald Trump overtly questioned the discovering of his personal intelligence businesses that Russia had meddled within the 2016 U.S. election to his profit. (Trump mentioned a day later that he misspoke.)
At the moment’s Birthdays:
- Worldwide Tennis Corridor of Famer Margaret Court docket is 83.
- Violinist Pinchas Zukerman is 77.
- Actor-singer Ruben Blades is 77.
- Rock composer-musician Stewart Copeland is 73.
- Playwright Tony Kushner is 69.
- Dancer Michael Flatley is 67.
- Former actor and teenage mannequin Phoebe Cates is 62.
- Actor Daryl “Chill” Mitchell is 60.
- Actor-comedian Will Ferrell is 58.
- Soccer Corridor of Famer Barry Sanders is 57.
- Actor Corey Feldman is 54.
- Actor Jayma Mays is 46.
- Retired soccer star Carli Lloyd is 43.
- Actor AnnaLynne McCord is 38.
- Actor-singer James Maslow (Large Time Rush) is 35.
- Actor Mark Indelicato is 31.
- Pop singer-musician Luke Hemmings (5 Seconds to Summer season) is 29.