Today in History – July 16

2004 – Millennium Park, considered Chicago’s first and most ambitious early 21st century architectural project, is opened to the public by Mayor Richard M. Daley.

Millennium Park (Google Maps)
Millennium Park
Millennium Park (Google Maps)
Millennium Park

1945 – Manhattan Project: The Atomic Age begins when the United States successfully detonates a plutonium-based test nuclear weapon at the Trinity site near Alamogordo, New Mexico.

Trinity Atomic Test Site (Google Maps)
Trinity Atomic Test Site

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