1790
The District of Columbia was established as the seat of the United States government.
1918
Russia's Czar Nicholas II and his family were executed by the Bolsheviks.
1935
The first parking meters were installed in Oklahoma City.
1945
The first atomic bomb was tested in Alamogordo, N.M.
1951
J. D. Salinger's novel Catcher in the Rye was published.
1969
Apollo 11 took off on the first manned flight to the moon.
1979
Saddam Hussein became president of Iraq.
1999
John F. Kennedy, Jr., his wife Carolyn Bessette, and her sister Lauren, died in a plane crash near Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts.
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