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Nuclear Power - The Trinity test

Time: Monday Jul 16, 1945 at 05:29:00 AM

Place: U.S.

Details: The United States tested the first nuclear weapon in July 1945, the Trinity test. Trinity was the code name of the first detonation of a nuclear device. It was conducted by the United States Army at 5:29 a.m. on July 16, 1945, as part of the Manhattan Project.

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On This Day - 16 July

Byzantine Empire
Byzantine Empire-Eastern and Western traditions of the Chalcedonian Christian Church reached a terminal crisis
Sunday Jul 16, 1054 - Constantinople, Byzantine Empire
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Mozart-The Abduction from the Harem
Tuesday Jul 16, 1782 - Burgtheater, Vienna, Austria
Napoleon Bonaparte
Napoleon-Battle of Bailén
Saturday Jul 16, 1808 - Bailén, Spain
Armenian Genocide
Armenian Genocide-Morgenthau memoirs
Friday Jul 16, 1915 - U.S.
Mao Zedong 1963 - image
Mao Zedong-The Second Congress of The Communist Party
Sunday Jul 16, 1922 - Shanghai, China
King Edward VIII
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Thursday Jul 16, 1936 - Constitution Hill, near Buckingham Palace, London, England, United Kingdom
Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh
Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh-Promotion to lieutenant
Thursday Jul 16, 1942 - United Kingdom
World War II
World War II-Invasion of Normandy
Sunday Jul 16, 1944 - Normandy, France
Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh
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Sunday Jul 16, 1950 - Malta
Portrait of Astronaut Neil A. Armstrong, commander of the Apollo 11 - image
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Wednesday Jul 16, 1969 - Launch Complex 39, Kennedy Space Center, Florida, U.S.
Indira Gandhi Image
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Wednesday Jul 16, 1969 - New Delhi, India
Iran-Iraq War Image
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Friday Jul 16, 1982 - Basra, Iraq
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Monday Jul 16, 1984 - France
Daniel Craig - Film Premiere "Spectre" - James Bond
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Friday Jul 16, 1993 - United Kingdom
David Cameron Image
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Saturday Jul 16, 1994 - London, England
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Wednesday Jul 16, 2008 - San Bruno, California, U.S.
Aaron Hernandez Image
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Monday Jul 16, 2012 - Boston's South End, Massachusetts, U.S.
Uber logo
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Logo of the American car manufacturer and technology company Tesla, Inc. - image
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Kevin Hart
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Thursday Jul 16, 2015 - California, U.S.
Donald Trump
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July 1945

World War II
World War II-Allied leaders meet in Potsdam
Wednesday Jul 11, 1945 - Berlin, Germany
First Indochina War COLLAGE - image
First Indochina War-the Potsdam Conference
Tuesday Jul 17, 1945 - Potsdam, Germany
Ronald Reagan
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Tuesday Jul 17, 1945 - U.S.
Winston Churchill
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Tuesday Jul 17, 1945 - Potsdam, Germany
Hirohito
Hirohito-The Potsdam Declaration
Thursday Jul 26, 1945 - Potsdam, Germany

1945

First Indochina War COLLAGE - image
First Indochina War-The Vietnamese Famine
1945 - Vietnam
First Indochina War COLLAGE - image
First Indochina War-The Provisional Government of the French Republic wanted to restore its colonial rule in French Indochina
1945 - French Indochina (Now Vietnam)
Shimon Peres Main Image
Shimon Peres-Marriage
1945 - Israel
Schindler, Oskar Image
Oskar Schindler (Schindler's List)-Bribes for Lives
Jan, 1945 - Brünnlitz, Czech Republic
Harald V Image
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1945 - Norway
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1945 - Smestad Skole, Konventveien, Oslo, Norway
Schindler, Oskar Image
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1945 - Czech Republic
Communist troops in the Battle of Siping - Chinese Civil War Image
Chinese Civil War-Manchurian Strategic Offensive Operation
1945 - Japan
Communist troops in the Battle of Siping - Chinese Civil War Image
Chinese Civil War-Communist Party Liberated Zone
1945 - China
Old Computers - image
Computer-The First Electronic Programmable Computer built In The U.S.
1945 - University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.
Hirohito
Hirohito-Emperor Hirohito began a series of individual meetings to consider the progress of the war
1945 - Tokyo, Japan
Hirohito
Hirohito-The Cabinet had agreed on a Negotiated Surrender
1945 - Tokyo, Japan
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The Holocaust-Death marches to camps in Germany and Austria
Jan, 1945 - Poland
Heinrich Himmler
Heinrich Himmler-Operation North Wind
Monday Jan 1, 1945 - Germany
Alan Turing
Alan Turing-Working on The Design of The ACE
1945 - Hampton, London, England
Rosa Parks Image
Rosa Parks-Rosa succeeded in registering to Vote
1945 - U.S.
Igor Stravinsky
Igor Stravinsky-Stravinsky became a Naturalized United States Citizen
1945 - West Hollywood, California, U.S.
Nuclear power
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1945 - U.S.
Charles de Gaulle
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1945 - Paris, France
Martin Bormann
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Tuesday Jan 16, 1945 - Berlin, Germany
Pope John Paul II Image
Pope John Paul II-Germans fled the City
Wednesday Jan 17, 1945 - Karkow, Poland
Harry S. Truman
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Saturday Jan 20, 1945 - U.S.
Joseph Goebbels
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Sunday Jan 21, 1945 - Germany
Max Planck
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Tuesday Jan 23, 1945 - Plötzensee Prison, Berlin, Germany
Heinrich Himmler
Heinrich Himmler-Commander of the Hastily formed Army Group Vistula
Thursday Jan 25, 1945 - Pomerania, Poland
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The Holocaust-Auschwitz was liberated by the Soviets
Saturday Jan 27, 1945 - Poland
Joseph Goebbels
Joseph Goebbels-Goebbels and his wife discussed suicide
Saturday Jan 27, 1945 - Germany
Winston Churchill
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Tuesday Jan 30, 1945 - Malta
Hirohito
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Feb, 1945 - Tokyo, Japan
Heinrich Himmler
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1945 - Germany
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Queen Elizabeth II at NASA
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Feb, 1945 - London, United Kingdom
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Sunday Feb 4, 1945 - Yalta, Crimea, U.S.S.R.
Winston Churchill
Winston Churchill-Yalta Conference
Sunday Feb 4, 1945 - Yalta, Crimea
Bob Marley Image
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Tuesday Feb 6, 1945 - Nine Mile, Saint Ann Parish, Jamaica
Mussolini biografia
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Wednesday Feb 7, 1945 at 08:38:00 PM - Italy
Winston Churchill
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Tuesday Feb 13, 1945 - Dresden, Germany
World War II
World War II-Fall of Budapest
Tuesday Feb 13, 1945 - Budapest, Kingdom of Hungary
World War II
World War II-Gothic Line
Mar, 1945 - Northern Italy
J.F.Kennedy Image
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Thursday Mar 1, 1945 - U.S.
World War II
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Mar, 1945 - Manila, Philippines
Josip Broz Tito Image
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Wednesday Mar 7, 1945 - Serbia (Yugoslavia)
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Thursday Mar 8, 1945 - France, Belgium, Luxembourg, Netherlands and Germany
World War II
World War II-Bombing of Tokyo
Thursday Mar 8, 1945 - Tokyo, Japan
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Friday Mar 9, 1945 - French Indochina (Now Vietnam)
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Thursday Mar 15, 1945 - Australia
King Edward VIII
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Friday Mar 16, 1945 - Nassau, Bahamas
Itzak Stern
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1945 - Poland
Winston Churchill
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Wednesday Mar 28, 1945 - United Kingdom
World War II
World War II-Battle of Northern Burma and Western Yunnan
Mar, 1945 - Northern Burma and Western Yunnan, China
World War II
World War II-Upper Silesian Offensive
Saturday Mar 31, 1945 - Upper Silesia, Germany
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi Image
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Apr, 1945 - India
Schindler, Oskar Image
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1945 - Germany
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Apr, 1945 - Vietnam
Hirohito
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Apr, 1945 - Moscow, Russia (then Soviet Union)
World War II
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Wednesday Apr 4, 1945 - Pomerania, Danzig-West Prussia inside Germany
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Friday Apr 6, 1945 - Zhijiang, Huaihua, Hunan, China
Penicillin
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1945 - Nobel Assembly at Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
World War II
World War II-Fall of Königsberg
Sunday Apr 8, 1945 - Königsberg, East Prussia (Present Day Kaliningrad, Russia)
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The Holocaust-Buchenwald was liberated
Wednesday Apr 11, 1945 - Weimar, Germany
Harry S. Truman
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Thursday Apr 12, 1945 - U.S.
Harry S. Truman
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Thursday Apr 12, 1945 - U.S.
Joseph Goebbels
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Thursday Apr 12, 1945 - Germany
World War II
World War II-Roosevelt death
Thursday Apr 12, 1945 - U.S.
Franklin Roosevelt Image
Franklin D. Roosevelt-Death
Thursday Apr 12, 1945 at 03:35:00 PM - Warm Springs, Georgia, U.S.
Charles de Gaulle
Charles de Gaulle-Roosevelt died
Thursday Apr 12, 1945 - U.S.
World War II
World War II-Operation Spring Awakening - Last German major offensive
Sunday Apr 15, 1945 - Lake Balaton, Kingdom of Hungary
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The Holocaust-Bergen-Belsen was liberated
Sunday Apr 15, 1945 - Germany
Martin Bormann
Martin Bormann-The Battle of Berlin
Monday Apr 16, 1945 - Berlin, Germany
World War II
World War II-Fall of Berlin
Monday Apr 16, 1945 - Berlin, Germany
World War II
World War II-Ruhr Pocket
Wednesday Apr 18, 1945 - Ruhr Area, Germany
Joseph Goebbels
Joseph Goebbels-Goebbels burned his private papers
Wednesday Apr 18, 1945 - Germany
World War II
World War II-Air raids on Japan
Wednesday Apr 18, 1945 - Japan
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The Holocaust-Belsen report "Victims of The Holocaust on Belsen"
Thursday Apr 19, 1945 - United Kingdom
Martin Bormann
Martin Bormann-The Red Army started to Encircle Berlin
Thursday Apr 19, 1945 - Berlin, Germany
Adolf Hitler
Adolf Hitler-Last trip from the Führerbunker
Friday Apr 20, 1945 - Berlin, Germany
Heinrich Himmler
Heinrich Himmler-Last Meeting
Friday Apr 20, 1945 - Berlin, Germany
Martin Bormann
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Friday Apr 20, 1945 - Berlin, Germany
Joseph Goebbels
Joseph Goebbels-Most of Hitler's inner circle to leave Berlin
Friday Apr 20, 1945 - Berlin, Germany
Adolf Hitler
Adolf Hitler-Battle of the Seelow
Saturday Apr 21, 1945 - Seelow Heights, Province of Brandenburg, Prussia, Germany
Heinrich Himmler
Heinrich Himmler-Release of Jewish Concentration Camp
Saturday Apr 21, 1945 - Germany
Martin Bormann
Martin Bormann-Albert Bormann Left The Bunker complex and flew to the Obersalzberg
Monday Apr 23, 1945 - Obersalzberg, Berchtesgaden, Germany
Joseph Goebbels
Joseph Goebbels-Goebbels made the last proclamation to the people of Berlin
Monday Apr 23, 1945 - Berlin, Germany
Heinrich Himmler
Heinrich Himmler-Himmler met directly with Bernadotte
Monday Apr 23, 1945 - Germany
World War II
World War II-East Prussian Offensive
Wednesday Apr 25, 1945 - East Prussia (Present Day in Poland)
W. E. B. Du Bois
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Wednesday Apr 25, 1945 - San Francisco, California, U.S.
Martin Bormann
Martin Bormann-Gerda Bormann and the Children fled Obersalzberg for Italy
Wednesday Apr 25, 1945 - Italy
Mussolini biografia
Benito Mussolini-Escaping to Spain
Wednesday Apr 25, 1945 - Spain
United Nations
United Nations-United Nations Conference on International Organization
Wednesday Apr 25, 1945 - San Francisco, California, U.S.
Heinrich Himmler
Heinrich Himmler-Himmler's SS representative was caught and brought back to the Führerbunker
Friday Apr 27, 1945 - Germany
Heinrich Himmler
Heinrich Himmler-Negotiations with the western Allies
Saturday Apr 28, 1945 - Berlin, Germany
World War II
World War II-Benito Mussolini was killed
Saturday Apr 28, 1945 - Italy
Mussolini biografia
Benito Mussolini-Mussolini's death
Saturday Apr 28, 1945 - Italy
Adolf Hitler
Adolf Hitler-Hitler removed Göring from all government positions
Sunday Apr 29, 1945 - Berlin, Germany
Adolf Hitler
Adolf Hitler-Marriage
Sunday Apr 29, 1945 - Berlin, Germany
Martin Bormann
Martin Bormann-Bormann was Named Executor of The Estate
Sunday Apr 29, 1945 - Obersalzberg, Berchtesgaden, Germany
Heinrich Himmler
Heinrich Himmler-Himmler and Göring are traitors
Sunday Apr 29, 1945 - Germany
Joseph Goebbels
Joseph Goebbels-Goebbels and Bormann were witnesses to Hitlers
Sunday Apr 29, 1945 - Berlin, Germany
World War II
World War II-German forces surrender
Sunday Apr 29, 1945 - Berlin, Germany
Joseph Goebbels
Joseph Goebbels-Hitler married Eva Braun before his suicide
Sunday Apr 29, 1945 - Berlin, Germany
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