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Today is Friday, July 16, the 197th day of 2021. There are 168 days left in the year.
by Associated Press
Jul. 15 2021 @ 5:51pm
Today is Friday, July 16, the 197th day of 2021. There are 168 days left in the year.
Today s Highlight in History:
On July 16, 1790, a site along the Potomac River was designated the permanent seat of the United States government; the area became Washington, D.C.
On this date:
In 1909, the Audi auto company was founded in Zwickau, Germany, by August Horch.
In 1945, the United States exploded its first experimental atomic bomb in the desert of Alamogordo (ahl-ah-moh-GOHR -doh), New Mexico; the same day, the heavy cruiser USS Indianapolis left Mare (mar-AY ) Island Naval Shipyard in California on a secret mission to deliver atomic bomb components to Tinian Island in the Marianas.
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