History Today
In 1790, the area along the Potomac River was designated as the permanent seat of the United States government, and the area became Washington, DC.
In 1862, Rear Admiral David G. Farragut became the first rear admiral in the United States Navy.
In 1945, the United States detonated the first experimental atomic bomb in the desert at Alamogordo, New Mexico. On the same day, the heavy cruiser USS Indianapolis left Mare Island Naval Shipyard, California on a secret mission to deliver atomic bomb components to Tinian, an island in the Mariana Islands.[1945年、米国はニューメキシコ州アラモゴードの砂漠で最初の実験用原子爆弾を爆発させました。同日、重巡洋艦USSインディアナポリスはカリフォルニア州メア・アイランド海軍造船所を出港し、マリアナ諸島のテニアン島に原子爆弾の部品を届ける秘密任務に就きました。
In 1951, J.D. Salinger’s novel The Catcher in the Rye was first published by Little, Brown and Company.
In 1957, Marine Corps Maj. John Glenn set the transcontinental speed record by flying a Vought F8U Crusader jet from California to New York in 3 hours, 23 minutes, and 8.4 seconds.
In 1964, when he accepted the Republican presidential nomination in San Francisco, Barry M. Goldwater declared that “extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice” and that “moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.”
In 1969, Apollo 11 launched from Cape Kennedy in Florida and made the first manned landing on the moon.
In 1999, John F. Kennedy Jr., his wife Carolyn, and his sister Lauren Bassett were killed when the single-engine plane piloted by Kennedy crashed into the Atlantic Ocean near Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts.
In 2004, Martha Stewart was sentenced to five months in prison and five months of house arrest by a federal judge in New York for lying about stock sales.
In 2008, Florida resident Casey Anthony was arrested on charges of child neglect, making false official statements, and obstructing a criminal investigation after her 2-year-old daughter, Caylee, went missing for a month. (Casey Anthony was later acquitted of Caylee’s murder and convicted of lying to police after her skeletal remains were discovered in December 2008.)
In 2015, a jury in Centennial, Colorado, found James Holmes guilty of murder, attempted murder and 165 other charges in the 2012 Aurora movie theater attack that left 12 people dead.
In 2017, 10 people were killed when a rainstorm caused flash flooding at a popular swimming spot in Tonto National Forest in Arizona.
In 2018, after meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Helsinki, President Donald Trump publicly questioned his country’s intelligence findings that Russia had interfered in the 2016 US presidential election to favor him. (Trump said the next day that he was mistaken.)
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Margaret Court, an inductee into the International Tennis Hall of Fame, is 82 years old.
Football Hall of Famer Jimmy Johnson is 81 years old.
Violinist Pinchas Zukerman is 76 years old.
Actor and singer Ruben Blades is 76 years old.
Rock composer and musician Stewart Copeland is 72 years old.
Playwright Tony Kushner is 68 years old.
Dancer Michael Flatley is 66 years old.
Former actor and teen model Phoebe Cates is 61 years old.
Actor Darryl “Chill” Mitchell is 59 years old.
Actor and comedian Will Ferrell is 57 years old.
Football Hall of Famer Barry Sanders is 56 years old.
Actor Corey Feldman is 53 years old.
Actress Jayma Mays is 45 years old.
Retired soccer star Carli Lloyd is 42 years old.
Actress AnnaLynne McCord is 37 years old.
Actor and singer James Maslow (Big Time Rush) is 34 years old.
Actor Mark Indelicato is 30 years old.
Pop singer and musician Luke Hemmings (5 Seconds to Summer) is 28 years old.
