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Historical Events on July 16

  • Battle of Stony Point

    1779

    American Revolutionary War: Light infantry of the Continental Army seize a fortified British Army position in a midnight bayonet attack at the Battle of Stony Point.

  • Residence Act

    1790

    The District of Columbia is established as the capital of the United States after signature of the Residence Act.

  • First Battle of Bull Run

    1861

    American Civil War: At the order of President Abraham Lincoln, Union troops begin a 25-mile march into Virginia for what will become the First Battle of Bull Run, the first major land battle of the war.

  • Auschwitz concentration camp

    1942

    Holocaust: Vel' d'Hiv Roundup (Rafle du Vel' d'Hiv): The government of Vichy France orders the mass arrest of 13,152 Jews who are held at the Winter Velodrome in Paris before deportation to Auschwitz.

  • Little Boy

    1945

    World War II: The heavy cruiser USS Indianapolis leaves San Francisco with parts for the atomic bomb "Little Boy" bound for Tinian Island.

  • Manhattan Project

    1945

    Manhattan Project: The Atomic Age begins when the United States successfully detonates a plutonium-based test nuclear weapon near Alamogordo, New Mexico.

  • 1948 Arab-Israeli War

    1948

    Following token resistance, the city of Nazareth, revered by Christians as the hometown of Jesus, capitulates to Israeli troops during Operation Dekel in the 1948 Arab-Israeli War.

  • Apollo 11

    1969

    Apollo program: Apollo 11, the first mission to land astronauts on the Moon, is launched from the Kennedy Space Center at Cape Kennedy, Florida.

  • 2015 Chattanooga shootings

    2015

    Four U.S. Marines and one gunman die in a shooting spree targeting military installations in Chattanooga, Tennessee.

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