This Day in HistoryJuly 16
Top Events
- 1790 — Congress established the District of Columbia as the permanent seat of the federal government.
- 1945 — The United States detonated the first atomic bomb in the Trinity test in the New Mexico desert.
- 1969 — Apollo 11 lifted off from Kennedy Space Center, carrying the crew that would make the first crewed Moon landing.
Born on This Day
- 1907 — Barbara Stanwyck, the acclaimed American film and television actress.
Passed on This Day
- 1985 — Heinrich Boll, the Nobel Prize-winning German author.
Number One Song
- 1966 — Hanky Panky by Tommy James and the Shondells