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July 15th

1606 - Rembrandt is born.

1806 - Zebulon Pike's expedition of the American Southwest begins.

1923 - Bobby Jone's wins his first U.S. Open.

1965 - Mariner 4 sends back to Earth the first close-up images of Mars.

1997 - Gianni Versace murdered by Andrew Cunanan.

July 16th

1918 - Russia's Czar Nicholas II and family executed by the Bolsheviks.

1945 - U.S. conducts first test of the atomic bomb.

1951 - J.D. Salinger's first novel Catcher in the Rye is published.

1969 - Apollo 11, first U.S. lunar landing mission, is launched.

1999 - John F. Kennedy Jr., his wife and sister-in-law die in plane crash.

2001 - David Duval wins 130th British Open.

July 17th

1917 - British royal family changes its name to Windsor.

1955 - Disneyland opens in Anaheim, California.

1975 - Apollo 18 and Soyuz 19 rendevous and dock in space.