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07-16-2006, 07:52 AM
On This Day
This Day in History
1917: A short-lived uprising led by the Bolsheviks against the Russian government begins. Its failure leads to the arrest of Leon Trotsky and the temporary exile of Vladimir Lenin.
1918: The Bolsheviks, who took power in Russia the previous fall, execute former tsar Nicholas II along with his family.
Learn more about Nicholas II.
1945: The U.S. government conducts the first atomic explosion, code-named “Trinity,” near Alamogordo, New Mexico, less than a month before dropping similar devices on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan.
1951: J. D. Salinger's novel Catcher in the Rye, panned the previous day in the New York Times, is published.
1964: In his acceptance speech for the Republican nomination for president, Arizona senator Barry Goldwater declares, "extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice."
1988: At the U.S. Olympic Trials in Indianapolis, Florence Griffith Joyner runs the 100 meters in 10.49 seconds, shattering Evelyn Ashford's women's world record of 10.76.
Born on This Day
Mary Baker Eddy, founder of Christian Science (1821)
Andrea del Sarto, painter (1486)
Shoeless Joe Jackson, baseball player (1889)
Barbara Stanwyck, actor (1907)
Rubén Blades, singer and politician (1948)
Barry Sanders, running back (1968)
This Day in History
1917: A short-lived uprising led by the Bolsheviks against the Russian government begins. Its failure leads to the arrest of Leon Trotsky and the temporary exile of Vladimir Lenin.
1918: The Bolsheviks, who took power in Russia the previous fall, execute former tsar Nicholas II along with his family.
Learn more about Nicholas II.
1945: The U.S. government conducts the first atomic explosion, code-named “Trinity,” near Alamogordo, New Mexico, less than a month before dropping similar devices on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan.
1951: J. D. Salinger's novel Catcher in the Rye, panned the previous day in the New York Times, is published.
1964: In his acceptance speech for the Republican nomination for president, Arizona senator Barry Goldwater declares, "extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice."
1988: At the U.S. Olympic Trials in Indianapolis, Florence Griffith Joyner runs the 100 meters in 10.49 seconds, shattering Evelyn Ashford's women's world record of 10.76.
Born on This Day
Mary Baker Eddy, founder of Christian Science (1821)
Andrea del Sarto, painter (1486)
Shoeless Joe Jackson, baseball player (1889)
Barbara Stanwyck, actor (1907)
Rubén Blades, singer and politician (1948)
Barry Sanders, running back (1968)