07-16-2005, 06:46 AM
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July 16th
622 ~ Start of the Islamic calendar.
1769 ~ Father Junipero Serra founded the Mission San Diego de Alcalá, the first mission in California. The mission later evolved into the city of San Diego.
1782 ~ First performance of Mozart's opera The Abduction from the Seraglio.
1872 ~ Birthday of Roald Amundsen, Norwegian explorer who led the expedition which was the first to reach the South Pole.
1918 ~ At Ekaterinburg, Bolsheviks executed Czar Nicholas II of Russia and his family.
1945 ~ The U.S. successfully detonated the first test nuclear weapon at the Trinity site near Alamogordo, New Mexico.
1948 ~ Birthday of Pinchas Zukerman, Israeli Violinist.
1969 ~ Apollo 11 launched from Cape Kennedy, Florida to become the first manned mission to land on the moon.
1981 ~ Death of Harry Chapin, American Singer & Songwriter.
1989 ~ Death of Herbert von Karajan, Austrian Conductor.
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