Hope BBD didn't catch what Hombre has but feel better soon.
And on this day, July 16, in history:
1782 First performance of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's opera
Die Entführung aus dem Serail. (The test later will require correct spelling.
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1790 The District of Columbia is established as the capital of the United States. At the time it was pretty centrally located. (But now I think it should be moved to say Kansas City or St. Louis.)
1915 First Order of the Arrow ceremony takes place and the Order of the Arrow is founded. (This won't mean much to anybody but the Scouters.)
1935 The world's first parking meter is installed in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. (We who have lived in Kansas and Texas have always known there was something wrong with Oklahoma and now we know why.
- just teasing.)
1945 the Atomic Age begins when the United States successfully detonates a plutonium-based test nuclear weapon near in New Mexico. (The Trinity Site is occasionally briefly opened to the public and one of those times is usually in mid July.)
1956 - the last time Ringling Bros, Barnum and Bailey Circus performed under the famous canvas tent. (Wondering how many reading this are old enough to remember that canvas tent?)
1969 Apollo 11 is launched from the Kennedy Space Center carrying Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, and Michael Collins for an intended first walk ever on the surface of the moon. (Some of us are old enough to remember that and actually watched the lift off and Walter Kronkite narrating the event as well as the moon landing several days later.)
1988 Florence Joyner runs 100 meter in women's world record 10.49 seconds to take the Olympic gold medal. (And I watched her do it and was cheering her on. Sadly in 1998 Flo-Jo died as a result of an epileptic seizure in her sleep at age of 38.)
