Today is Monday, July 18, the 199th day of 2011. There are 166 days left in the year.

64 ― Great Fire of Rome begins (Nero didn't fiddle)

1536 ― Pope's authority declared void in England

1872 ― Britain introduces secret ballot voting

1936 ― Spanish Civil War begins, Gen. Francisco Franco led uprising

1947 ― U.S. receives U.N. trusteeship over Pacific Islands

1966 ― Carl Sagan turns 1 billion seconds old

1969 ― Mary Jo Kopechne and Sen. Kennedy plunge off Chappaquiddick Bridge

1972 ― 200,000 attend Mt. Pocono rock festival in Pennsylvania

1974 ― World's tallest structure, 646-meter Polish radio mast, completed

1986 ― Videotapes released showing Titanic's sunken remains