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On this day: July 16

POSTED: 03:00 PM PDT Jul 13, 2012 UPDATED: 11:00 PM PDT Jul 15, 2012

The nation's capital is founded, the world gets its first parking meter, Joltin' Joe sets an unbreakable record and man heads to the moon, all on this day.

OTD July 16 - John Glenn — 20 / 39

U.S. Navy photograph

1957: U.S. Marine Maj. John Glenn flies a Vought F8U-1P Crusader supersonic jet from California to New York in three hours, 23 minutes and eight seconds, setting a new transcontinental speed record. Glenn received his fifth Distinguished Flying Cross for the mission.

OTD July 16 - Richard II

OTD July 16 - bank note

OTD July 16 - Mission San Diego

OTD July 16 - Mozart

OTD July 16 - Washington DC

OTD July 16 - Admiral Farragut

OTD July 16 - Mary Todd Lincoln

OTD July 16 - Joe Jackson

OTD July 16 - Orville Redenbacher

OTD July 16 - Barbara Stanwyck

OTD July 16 - Ginger Rogers

OTD July 16 - parking meter

OTD July 16 - Joe DiMaggio

OTD July 16 - Potsdam conference

OTD July 16 - USS Indianapolis

OTD July 16 - Trinity Test

OTD July 16 - Key Largo

OTD July 16 - Catcher in the Rye

OTD July 16 - circus tent

OTD July 16 - John Glenn

OTD July 16 - Poison Ivy

OTD July 16 - USS George Washington

OTD July 16 - Phoebe Cates

OTD July 16 - Cream

OTD July 16 - Will Ferrell

OTD July 16 - Apollo 11

OTD July 16 - Corey Feldman

OTD July 16 - The Miracles

OTD July 16 - Saddam Hussein

OTD July 16 - Ronald Reagan

OTD July 16 - Harry Chapin

OTD July 16 - Darren Lewis

OTD July 16 - Jupiter

OTD July 16 - Anna Nicole Smith

OTD July 16 - John Kennedy Jr

OTD July 16 - Millenium Park

OTD July 16 - Martha Stewart

OTD July 16 - Harry Potter

OTD July 16 - Obama Dalai Lama

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