Celebration Excuse
Welcome to Washington, “Bombs Away,” and put on your dancing shoes. It’s July 16 and we’re going lunar.
1790
Happy Birthday, Washington, D.C.! The signing of the Residence Bill establishes the nation’s capitol along the Potomac River.
1945
The Atomic Age beings with the detonation of a U.S.-made plutonium-based test bomb at the Trinity site near Alamogordo, New Mexico.
1951
J.D. Salinger’s classic teen angst novel, The Catcher in the Rye, is published.
1969
Apollo 11, which will become the first manned space mission to the successfully land on the moon, blasts off from Kennedy Space Center.
2005
The sixth installment in the Harry Potter series, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, sells 287,564 books per hour in its first 24 hours to become the fastest selling book in history.
Cake, Presents, The Works.
1862: Civil Rights activist, Ida B. Wells
1889: Baseball legend Shoeless Joe Jackson
1911: Dancer, actress, and icon Ginger Rogers
1956: Angels in America playwright Tony Kushner
1958: “Lord of the Dance,” Michael Flatley
1967: The hilarious Will Ferrell
Daybook
It’s a hot, quiet Monday in Washington.
PEOPLE
Former President Bill Clinton heads to Africa to check in on his Foundation projects.
Vice President Dick Cheney gives a fundraising speech for Sen. Saxby Chambliss in Atlanta, GA
Secretary of State Condi Rice is in the Middle East doing the diplomacy thing
WATCH MORE TV
During The Day
Ellen: (Repeat) Justin Timberlake
Oprah: Oprah’s Producers’ Favorite Moments
The View: Harry Hamlin, Lisa Rinna
Regis & Kelly: Queen Latifah
Stay Up Late
Stewart: Josh Rushing, they guy who wrote “Mission Al Jazeera”
Colbert: Richard Florida, the guy who rote “The Rise of the Creative Class”
Letterman: Michelle Pfeiffer
Leno: Bill Maher, Minnie Driver
Conan: Christopher Walken
Ferguson: Sir Ben Kingsley
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