July 16th
Today in America's Present Past
1769 | Civil Rights: Father Junipero Serra founded the San Diego Mission in California.
1790 | Congress: Declared the District of Columbia the permanent capital of the United States.
1821 | Cleric Mary Baker Eddy was born.
1862 | Activist and journalist Ida B. Wells was born.
1882 | Civil Rights: The violent “Homestead Strike” starts in Pennsylvania.
1882 | First Lady Mary Todd Lincoln died.
1907 | Actress Barbara Stanwyck was born.
1907 | Entrepreneur Orville Redenbacher was born.
1911 | Actress Ginger Rogers was born.
1915 | Cleric Ellen G. White died.
1943 | Football pro Jimmy Johnson was born.
1945 | WW: The first test detonation of an atomic bomb, Trinity Site, Alamogordo, New Mexico, as part of the Manhattan Project.
1951 | J. D. Salinger publishes “Catcher in the Rye.”
1956 | Playwright Tony Kushner was born.
1958 | Choreographer Michael Flatley was born.
1964 | Civil Rights: James Powell police shooting riot in New York City.
1967 | Comedian Will Ferrell was born.
1971 | Actor Corey Feldman was born.
1981 | Musician Harry Chapin died.
1999 | John F. Kennedy Jr., his wife, Carolyn Bessette Kennedy, and sister-in-law Lauren Bessette, are killed in a plane crash off the coast of Martha's Vineyard; Kennedy piloted the Piper Saratoga aircraft.