WikiPedia:Selected anniversaries/July 16
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"Trinity", the first nuclear test explosion.
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"Trinity", the first nuclear test explosion.
- 622 - Beginning of the Islamic calendar.
- 1918 - Russian Revolution: Bolsheviks executed Czar Nicholas II of Russia and his family at Ekaterinburg.
- 1945 - Manhattan Project: "Trinity", the first atomic bomb test, was detonated near Alamogordo, New Mexico, United States.
- 1979 - Saddam Hussein took over as Iraqi President.
- 1994 - The planet Jupiter is hit by fragments of the Shoemaker-Levy 9 comet.
