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Today in legal and military [and occasional oddities] history
1769 Father Juñipero Serra, a Spanish Franciscan missionary, founds the first Catholic mission in California on the site of present-day San Diego
1790 The District of Columbia was established as the seat of the United States government
1875 The new French constitution is finalized
1935 The first parking meters were installed in Oklahoma City
1945 The United States detonates the first atomic bomb in a test at Alamogordo [Los Alamos], New Mexico
1951 JD Salinger's novel Catcher in the Rye was published
1969 At 9:32 a.m. EDT, Apollo 11, the first US lunar landing mission, is launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida, on a historic journey to the surface of 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
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