Today in History: July 16, Trinity nuclear weapon test
At present is Wednesday July the th day of There are days left in the year In contemporary times in history On July the United States exploded its first experimental atomic bomb in the desert of Alamogordo New Mexico the same day the heavy cruiser USS Indianapolis left Mare mar-AY Island Naval Shipyard in California on a secret mission to deliver atomic bomb components to Tinian Island in the Marianas Also on this date In a site along the Potomac River was designated the permanent seat of the United States executive the area became Washington D C Related Articles ICE flexes authority to sharply expand detention without bond hearing American Idol music supervisor and husband both uncovered dead at LA home Fire crews along Grand Canyon are trying to save cabins after loss of historic lodge Influential evangelical preacher John MacArthur dies at What if we stay in Mexico With chances in the US dashed expatriates make new lives south of demarcation In Flag Officer David G Farragut became the first rear admiral in the United States Navy In the novel The Catcher in the Rye by J D Salinger was first published by Little Brown and Co In Marine Corps Maj John Glenn set a transcontinental speed record by flying a Vought F U Crusader jet from California to New York in hours minutes and seconds In as he accepted the Republican presidential nomination in San Francisco Barry M Goldwater declared that extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice and that moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue In Apollo launched from Cape Kennedy in Florida on the first manned mission to the surface of the moon In John F Kennedy Jr his wife Carolyn and her sister Lauren Bessette died when their single-engine plane piloted by Kennedy plunged into the Atlantic Ocean near Martha s Vineyard Massachusetts In 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 In Florida resident Casey Anthony whose -year-old daughter Caylee had been missing a month was arrested on charges of child neglect making false official statements and obstructing a criminal study Casey Anthony was later acquitted at trial of murdering Caylee whose skeletal remains were exposed in December Casey was convicted of lying to police In a jury in Centennial Colorado convicted James Holmes of counts of murder attempted murder and other charges in the Aurora movie theater rampage that left people dead In people died at a popular swimming hole in Arizona s Tonto National Forest after a rainstorm unleashed a flash flood In after meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Helsinki President Donald Trump openly questioned the finding of his own intelligence agencies that Russia had meddled in the U S referendum to his benefit Trump commented a day later that he misspoke Nowadays s Birthdays International Tennis Hall of Famer Margaret Court is Violinist Pinchas Zukerman is Actor-singer Ruben Blades is Rock composer-musician Stewart Copeland is Playwright Tony Kushner is Dancer Michael Flatley is Former actor and teen model Phoebe Cates is Actor Daryl Chill Mitchell is Actor-comedian Will Ferrell is Football Hall of Famer Barry Sanders is Actor Corey Feldman is Actor Jayma Mays is Retired soccer star Carli Lloyd is Actor AnnaLynne McCord is Actor-singer James Maslow Big Time Rush is Actor Mark Indelicato is Pop singer-musician Luke Hemmings Seconds to Summer is
