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JULY 16
1945:The atomic age begins with an explosion equivalent to 20,000 tons of
TNT, when scientists at the White Sands Missile Range near Alamogordo,
N.M., conduct the Trinity test — the first successful detonation of an
atomic bomb. Three weeks after the test, the United States will use
nuclear weapons against the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
during World War II.
1951: Teenaged anti-hero Holden Caulfield is introduced to readers with the publication of J.D. Salinger's novel The Catcher in the Rye.
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