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2018

The Carnegie Institution for Science discovers 12 new moons orbiting Jupiter, bringing the total to 79.

2004

Martha Stewart is sentenced to five months in prison and five months of house arrest for lying to federal investigators.

1999

John F. Kennedy Jr., his wife Carolyn Bessette Kennedy, and his sister-in-law Lauren Bessette die in a plane crash near Martha’s Vineyard. Kennedy was piloting the Piper Saratoga.

1979

Saddam Hussein succeeds Ahmad Hassan al-Bakr as president of Iraq.

1969

Apollo 11 launches, carrying the first men to set foot on the Moon.

1965

The Mont Blanc Tunnel, connecting France and Italy, opens to traffic.

1950

The largest crowd in history (199,854) attends a sporting event: the World Cup soccer final between Uruguay and Brazil in Rio de Janeiro.

1945

The United States conducts the first atomic bomb test in Alamogordo, NM.

1880

Emily Howard Stowe becomes the first female physician to practice in Canada.

1790

The District of Columbia, or Washington, D.C., is established and chosen as the permanent seat of the U.S. government.

1647

Jean de Quen discovers Lake St. Jean.

It happened on… July 16

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