Today is Tuesday, July 16, the 198th day of the 12 months 2024. There are 168 days left within the 12 months.
Today’s highlight of the story:
On July 16, 1945, the United States detonated its first experimental atomic bomb within the Alamogordo Desert in New Mexico. That same day, the heavy cruiser USS Indianapolis departed the Mare (mar-AY') Island Naval Shipyard in California on a secret mission to deliver atomic bomb components to the island of Tinian within the Marianas.
Also on this date:
In 1862, Flag Officer David G. Farragut became the primary Rear Admiral of the United States Navy.
In 1951, JD Salinger's novel The Catcher within the Rye was first published by Little, Brown and Co.
In 1957, Major John Glenn of the Marine Corps set a transcontinental speed record by flying a Vought F8U Crusader jet from California to New York in 3 hours, 23 minutes and eight.4 seconds.
When Barry M. Goldwater accepted the Republican nomination for president in San Francisco in 1964, he declared: “Extremism in the defense of liberty is not a vice” and “moderation in the pursuit of justice is not a virtue.”
In 1969, Apollo 11 launched from Cape Kennedy, Florida, on the primary manned mission to the lunar surface.
In 1999, John F. Kennedy Jr., his wife Carolyn, and her sister Lauren Bessette died when their single-engine plane, piloted by Kennedy, crashed into the Atlantic Ocean near Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts.
In 2004, Martha Stewart was sentenced by a federal judge in New York to 5 months in prison and five months of house arrest for lying a couple of stock sale.
In 2008, Casey Anthony of Florida, whose two-year-old daughter Caylee had been missing for a month, was arrested on charges of kid neglect, making false statements and obstructing an investigation. (Casey Anthony was later acquitted at trial of murdering Caylee, whose skeletal stays were present in December 2008; Casey was convicted of lying to police.)
In 2015, a jury in Centennial, Colorado, convicted James Holmes of 165 counts of murder, attempted murder and other charges in reference to the 2012 Aurora movie show shooting that left 12 people dead.
In 2017, ten people died at a well-liked swimming lake in Arizona's Tonto National Forest after a rainstorm triggered a flash flood.
In 2018, after meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Helsinki, President Donald Trump openly questioned the finding by his own intelligence agencies that Russia had interfered within the 2016 US election to its advantage. (Trump said a day later that he had made a slip of the tongue.)
Today's birthdays:
- Margaret Court, member of the International Tennis Hall of Fame, is 82.
- Football Hall of Fame member Jimmy Johnson is 81.
- The violinist Pinchas Zukerman is 76.
- The actor and singer Ruben Blades is 76.
- Rock composer and musician Stewart Copeland is 72.
- Playwright Tony Kushner is 68.
- Dancer Michael Flatley is 66.
- Former actress and teenage model Phoebe Cates is 61.
- Actor Daryl “Chill” Mitchell is 59.
- Actor and comedian Will Ferrell is 57.
- Football Hall of Fame member Barry Sanders is 56.
- Actor Corey Feldman is 53.
- Actress Jayma Mays is 45.
- Former soccer star Carli Lloyd is 42.
- Actress AnnaLynne McCord is 37.
- Actor and singer James Maslow (Big Time Rush) is 34.
- Actor Mark Indelicato is 30.
- Pop singer and musician Luke Hemmings (5 Seconds to Summer) is 28.
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