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Sunday, July 16, 2017

Today in History

1765
English Prime Minister Lord Grenville resigns and is replaced by Lord Rockingham.
1774
Russia and the Ottoman Empire sign the Treaty of Kuchuk-Kainardji, ending their six-year war.
1779
American troops under General Anthony Wayne capture Stony Point, N.Y.
1875
The new French constitution is finalized.
1882
Mary Todd Lincoln, the widow of Abraham Lincoln, dies of a stroke.
1918
Czar Nicholas and his family are murdered by Bolsheviks at Ekaterinburg, Russia.
1940
Adolf Hitler orders preparations for the invasion of England.
1944
Soviet troops occupy Vilnius, Lithuania, in their drive towards Germany.
1945
The United States detonates the first atomic bomb in a test at Alamogordo, N. M.
1969
Apollo 11 blasts off from Cape Kennedy, Florida, heading for a landing on the moon.
1999
A private plane piloted by John F. Kennedy Jr. is lost over the waters off Martha’s Vineyard, Mass.

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