Today is Friday, July 22, the 203rd day of 2011. There are 162 days left in the year.

1775 ― George Washington takes command of the troops

1898 ― Belgica crew see first sunrise in 1600 hours; first to endure Antarctic winter

1918 ― Lightning kills 504 sheep in Utah's Wasatch National Park

1923 ― Walter Johnson becomes the first to strikeout 3,000

1933 ― Wiley Post completes first round-the-world solo flight

1962 ― First US Venus probe, Mariner 1, fails at lift-off

1967 ― Jimi Hendrix quits as opening act of the Monkees' tour

1983 ― Dick Smith makes first solo helicopter flight around the world

1988 ― 500 U.S. scientists pledge to boycott Pentagon germ-warfare research

1991 ― Jeffrey Dahmer confesses to killing 17 males in 1978