Today in History: July 16
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The HMS Renown with other ships in the British fleet illuminated by fireworks, torches and searchlights on July 16, 1935, during King George V's visit, unseen, to Spithead, England for the Royal Review.2/20
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This aerial view shows a crest of the Hoover Dam, aka Boulder Dam, showing the highway leading across it on July 16, 1935. The road, soon to be opened to the public, will provide an easy route between Las Vegas, Nev., and Kingman, Arizona. The intake towers jut up on the other side of the dam in Boulder City, Nevada.3/20
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Paddy's Market on Ninth Avenue between 39th and 42nd St. in the Hell's Kitchen section of New York City is shown on its last day at this location on July 16, 1938. The Ninth Avenue El is seen in background. The curb pushcart merchants lost their license renewal fight and are moving to a vacant lot on 39th St. between 8th and 9th Ave.4/20
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All members of the Chick-a-dee Japanese Girl's Softball Team were evacuated to this war relocation center from Los Angeles so they kept their outfit together and are still swinging at wild ones like this in Manzanar, California July 16, 1942.5/20
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Atlanta’s old street cars replaced even older and more antique Korean cars, most of them broken down and worn out. Here a group of Koreans pose in one of the old Pusan cars in Atlanta on July 16, 1951.6/20
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This is the mushroom cloud of the first atomic explosion at Trinity Test Site, New Mexico, July 16, 1945. It left a half-mile wide crater, ten feet deep at the vent and the sand within the crater had been burned and boiled into a highly radioactive, jade-green, glassy crust.7/20
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This is the hull of the Hughes Hercules, called by its builders, the Hughes Aircraft company, the largest plane in the world under construction at Culver City, California on July 16, 1945. The hull is 220 feet long, 30 feet high and 25 feet wide, while the wing is 320 feet from tip to tip.8/20
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Marthie Jane Wills, known as Blind Mattie, poses with her dogs and her sow outside her log cabin in Mullens, West Virginia, July 16, 1951.9/20
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In this July 16, 1956 file photo, a circus hand guides a big elephant down the ramp as the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus arrives in Pittsburgh.10/20
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Juana Otero, a victim of heat exhaustion in the abnormally packed Grand Central subway station in New York, gets assistance from transit policeman Arthur Dixon as other victims rest in a corner of the station, July 16, 1956. Numerous other rush hour travelers required aid as a surging mass of humanity sought shuttle transport to the West Side subway system after a busy section of the East Side tube was put out of commission as a result of the weekend fire in the Old Wanamaker department store.11/20
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Frank Robinson sensational Rookie outfielder for the Cincinnati Reds is shown before the game July 16, 1958 in Cincinnati with his fiancee, Miss Viola Cobb.12/20
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Clubs swinging, a group of helmeted New York City police officers charge into a group of blacks while Harlem residents watch from upper floors during rioting in New York's Harlem section July 19, 1964. Two blacks were wounded by police gun fire and three policemen were injured by flying objects during second straight day of rioting in Harlem. The riots were set off with the shooting of 15-year-old student July 16, 1964 by an off-duty police officer.13/20
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Kelly Jo, left, and her twin sister, Kris Kay, daughters of Mr. and Mrs. Ivo Kramer, wave flags honoring hometown hero astronaut Neil Armstrong after the Apollo 11 launching on July 16, 1969 in Wapakoneta, Ohio. Armstrong, who is scheduled to be the first human to step on the moon, is from Wapakoneta, Ohio. The children are neighbors of Armstrong's parents in Wapakoneta.14/20
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Neil Armstrong waving in front, heads for the van that will take the crew to the rocket for launch to the moon at Kennedy Space Center in Merritt Island, Florida on July 16, 1969. Apollo 11 patch on the door of the van.15/20
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President Richard Nixon waves from the balcony of the Executive Mansion as he and first lady Pat Nixon, right, pose with Prince Charles, left, and Princess Anne of Britain, July 16, 1970.16/20
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Sen. Daniel K. Inouye, D-Hawaii, smiles prior to his appearance on CBS's "Face the Nation" program, July 16, 1973 in Washington. Inouye said that President Nixon is in trouble with the people over the Watergate scandal and should quickly volunteer to make his papers and himself available to Senate investigators.17/20
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Muhammad Ali, left, and boxing promoter Don King are seen during a news conference in New York, July 16, 1980.18/20
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Democratic presidential nominee Bill Clinton and U.S. Senate candidate Barbara Boxer of Calif., right, hold a sign saying “Boot Bush” as New York Mayor David Dinkins, left, laughs at the end of the Democratic National Convention in New York, July 16, 1992. Clinton and his running mate Al Gore accepted their party’s nomination before a packed house in Madison Square Garden. Manhattan Borough President Ruth Messinger is seen behind Clinton.19/20
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Democratic presidential nominee Bill Clinton, right, and his running mate Al Gore, raise their arms at the end of the Democratic National Convention in New York, July 16, 1992.20/20
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