The crew (left to right) Commander Neil Armstrong, Command Module
Pilot Michael Collins, and Lunar Module Pilot Edwin “Buzz” Aldrin, Jr.

on the morning of July 16,at 5:29:45 a.m., the Manhattan Project come to an
explosive end as the first atom bomb was successfully tested at Trinity Site at
the Alamogordo Bombing Range ( renamed The White Sands Missile Range) 
in the desert 120 miles south of Santa Fe, New Mexico. The scientists and a
few dignitaries had removed themselves 10,000 yards away to observe as
the first mushroom cloud of searing light (above) stretched 40,000 feet into
the air and generated the destructive power of 15,000 to 20,000 tons of
TNT. The tower on which the bomb (below) sat when detonated was
vaporized.
    
 

Pictured above is the first atomic bomb, nicknamed " the Gadget”.

                  (JULY 14, 1913 – DEC.26, 2006)

Gerald R. Ford was the 38th President of the United States, serving from
1974 to 1977, and the 40th Vice President serving from 1973 to 1974. His
wife, Betty Ford, died on July 8, 2011. Like her husband, she also died at
age 93. They are the longest lived Presidential couple.

President George W. Bush with Ford and his wife Betty on April 23, 2006; this is 
reported to be the last known public photo of Gerald Ford.

John Quincy Adams was the sixth President of the United States (1825–1829). Adams was involved in many international negotiations, and as Secretary of State, he helped
with the making of the Monroe Doctrine. Historians agree that John Quincy Adams was one of the great diplomats in U.S. history.  

            
                                The John Quincy Adams Presidential Dollar

Calvin Coolidge, age 7

John Calvin Coolidge, Jr. was the 30th President of the United States
(1923 to 1929). He was a Republican lawyer from Vermont who worked
his way up the ladder of Massachusetts state politics, eventually becoming
governor the state.