This Day In History--July 16

1790--The District of Columbia was established as the seat of the United States government.

1918--Russia's Czar Nicholas II and his family were executed by the Bolsheviks.

1935--The first parking meters were installed in Oklahoma City.

1945--The first atomic bomb was tested in Alamogordo, N.M.

1951--J. D. Salinger's novel Catcher in the Rye was published.

1969--Apollo 11 took off on the first manned flight to the moon.

1979--Saddam Hussein became president of Iraq.

1999--John F. Kennedy, Jr., his wife Carolyn Bessette, and her sister Lauren, died in a plane crash near Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts.