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July 16
1790The District of Columbia was established as the seat of the United States government. 1918Russia's Czar Nicholas II and his family were executed by the Bolsheviks. 1935The first parking meters were installed in Oklahoma City. 1945The first atomic bomb was tested in Alamogordo, N.M. 1951J. D. Salinger's novel Catcher in the Rye was published. 1969Apollo 11 took off on the first manned flight to the moon. 1979Saddam Hussein became president of Iraq. 1999John 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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