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  • Writer: katellashisadventure
    katellashisadventure
  • Jul 16
  • 2 min read
Plan of the City for Washington, DC
Plan of the City for Washington, DC

In 1769, Father Junípero Serra, a Spanish Franciscan missionary, founds the first Catholic mission in California on the site of present-day San Diego. After Serra blessed his new outpost of Christianity in a high mass, the royal standard of Spain was unfurled over the mission, which he named San Diego de Alcala.


In 1779 - starting on July 15th and continuing to July 16th, The Continental Army’s Light Infantry captured Stony Point, New York in what many thought was a suicidal midnight bayonet attack. Specifically On July 16, 1779, American Brigadier General Anthony Wayne launches a coup de main against British fortifications at Stony Point, New York, on the orders of General George Washington. He earns the moniker “Mad” Anthony Wayne for the ensuing maneuver.


In 1790, the U.S. Congress approved legislation authorizing President George Washington to acquire land in an area straddling the Potomac River as the new capital. A deadline was set for Monday, Dec. 1, 1800, to move the federal government to its permanent seat.


In 1862, Flag Officer David G. Farragut became the first rear admiral in the United States Navy


In 1935, The world’s first parking meter, known as Park-O-Meter No. 1, is installed on the southeast corner of what was then First Street and Robinson Avenue in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.


In 1941, American baseball player Joe DiMaggio set an MLB record for most consecutive games (56) with a hit.


In 1945, The United States tested the first atomic bomb near Alamogordo, New Mexico, and the following month dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Japan, hastening the end of World War II.


In 1951, J.D. Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye, which centred on the sensitive, rebellious adolescent Holden Caulfield, was published and later became a classic.


In 1957, Marine Corps Maj. John Glenn set a transcontinental speed record by flying a Vought F8U Crusader jet from California to New York in 3 hours, 23 minutes and 8.4 seconds.


In 1964, 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 1969, Apollo 11 lifted off from NASA's John F. Kennedy Space Center in Florida, and four days later two of its astronauts, Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin, became the first humans to set foot on the Moon.


In 1973, Little more than a year after the break-in at the Watergate Hotel led to a widening scandal—explosive news is revealed during a live broadcast of the Watergate hearings in the Senate: A secret taping system inside the White House had recorded all of President Richard Nixon’s telephone calls and in-person conversations.


In 1979, Jeffrey MacDonald stands trial in North Carolina for the murder of his wife and children nearly 10 years before.


In 1980, Ronald Reagan won the Republican presidential nomination at the party's convention in Detroit.


In 2004, Chicago officially opened its Millennium Park, which featured fountains, eye-catching sculptures, and a large outdoor concert facility designed by architect Frank Gehry.

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