National Baby Food Festival, Fremont, MI (July 16-19). See www.babyfoodfest.com
Birth anniversary of African-American journalist and antilynching crusader Ida B. Wells (1862-1931). Wells’s Red Record (1895) was one of the first published accounts of lynchings in the South.
Birth anniversary of Roald Amundsen, Norwegian explorer (1872-1928).
Birth anniversaries of film stars Ginger Rogers (1911-95) and Barbara Stanwyck (1907-90).
20 years ago, in 1994, the comet Shoemaker-Levy crashed into Jupiter, unleashing more energy than the combined effect of an explosion of all our world’s nuclear arsenals.
Happy Birthday! Will Ferrell, Michael Flatley, Barry Sanders
1790 - The District of Columbia, or Washington, DC, was established as the permanent seat of the United States Government.
1912 - Bradley A. Fiske patented the airplane torpedo.
1935 - Oklahoma City became the first city in the U.S. to install parking meters.
1940 - Adolf Hitler ordered the preparations to begin on the invasion of England, known as Operation Sea Lion.
1942 - French police officers rounded up 13,000 Jews and held them in the Winter Velodrome. The round-up was part of an agreement between Pierre Laval and the Nazis. Germany had agreed to not deport French Jews if France arrested foreign Jews.
1945 - The United States detonated the first atomic bomb in a test at Alamogordo, NM.
1951 - J.D. Salinger's novel "The Catcher in the Rye" was first published.
1969 - Apollo 11 blasted off from Cape Kennedy, FL, and began the first manned mission to land on the moon.
1979 - Saddam Hussein became president of Iraq after forcing Hasan al-Bakr to resign.
1981 - After 23 years with the name Datsun, executives of Nissan changed the name of their cars to Nissan.
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