July 22nd, 1960: Canadian game show host Alex Trebek was born.

July 21st, 1964: The race riots between Malays and Chinese people in Singapore break out. It caused 23 deaths and over 450 injuries, and over 3,500 arrests.

July 20th, 1960: Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) elects the world’s first female head of government, Sirimavo Bandaranaike.

On This Day In History

July 19th, 1864: The Qing Dynasty defeats the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom at the Third Battle of Nanking.

July 18th, 1925: Adolf Hitler publishes Mein Kampf.

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Mattachine Review (May 1959), American queer magazine.

July 17th, 1955: Disneyland opens in Anaheim, California.

July 16th, 1945: At 5:29am MDT (UTC-6), the United States Army detonates the world’s first nuclear weapon.

The test was named “Trinity” by director J. Robert Oppenheimer. It occurred at the Alamogordo Range in New Mexico, USA. The device was an implosion-based plutonium device, the same as the “Fat Man” bomb that would later be detonated over Nagasaki, Japan, and had a yield equivalent to 25 kilotons of TNT.

The location of the test was away from dense, urban areas. Despite this, there were 19,000 people nearby, including several Native American tribes and pueblos.

July 15th, 1799: French Captain Pierre-François Bouchard discovers the Rosetta Stone.

July 14th, 1983: The first game of the Mario franchise, Mario Bros., is released