July 16 - What happened today?

Home What happened today in history? Blamepro's Almanac for July 16
In the headlines today:

2005	Actress Sandra Bullock and West Coast Choppers owner Jesse James are married on a ranch outside Santa Barbara, California.
1999	John F. Kennedy Jr., his wife, and sister-in-law, die in a single-engine airplane crash off the Massachusetts coast.
1988	Canadian TV viewers tune in to watch the "royal wedding" of hockey great Wayne Gretzky and actress Janet Jones.
1988	Actor Michael J. Fox marries actress Tracy Pollan.
1982	Unification Church leader Sun Myung Moon is sentenced to 18 months in prison for tax fraud.
1981	Singer-songwriter Harry Chapin dies in an auto accident in New York at age 38.
1981	Automaker Nissan changes the name of its products from Datsun to Nissan.
1972	Actor Robert Wagner marries actress Natalie Wood.
1969	Apollo 11, the first manned lunar landing mission, lifts off from Cape Kennedy.
1951	J.D. Salinger's novel, The Catcher in the Rye, is published.
1945	The US explodes its first plutonium bomb at Alamogordo Air Base in New Mexico.
1918	The Bolsheviks execute Russian Czar Nicholas II and his family.
1878	Thaddeus Hyatt is granted a US patent for reinforced concrete.
1790	Washington, DC, becomes the permanent capital city of the US.