07-16-2004, 08:41 AM
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July 16th
622 ~ Beginning of the Islamic calendar by Caliph Umar ibn al-Khattab.
1783 ~ Following the American War of Independence, grants of land in Canada to American loyalists announced.
1872 ~ Birthday of Roald Amundsen, explorer, first to reach the South Pole.
1911 ~ Birthday of Ginger Rogers, Actress & Dancer.
1942 ~ On orders from the Vichy France government headed by Pierre Laval, French police officers rounded up 13,000-20,000 Jews and imprisoned them.
1945 ~ The US successfully detonateed a test nuclear weapon at the Trinity site near Alamogordo, New Mexico.
1969 ~ Apollo 11 launched from Cape Kennedy, Florida to become the first manned space mission to land on the moon.
1981 ~ Death of Harry Chapin, Singer & Songwriter.
1999 ~ Birthday of John F. Kennedy Jr.
2001 ~ The FBI arrested Dmitry Sklyarov at a convention in Las Vegas, Nevada for violating a provision of the DMCA.
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