SATURDAY, JULY 19, 2008

Today is Saturday, July 19, the 201st day of 2008. There are 165 days left in the year.

2781 B.C. _ Presumed start of Egyptian calendar

1553 _ 15-year-old Lady Jane Grey deposed as England's Queen after 9 days

1848 _ First women's rights convention (Seneca Falls, N.Y.)

1870 _ France declares war on Prussia; the Franco-Prussian war begins

1877 _ First Wimbledon tennis championships held

1941 _ British P.M. Winston Churchill launched his ``V for Victory" campaign

1943 _ Allied air forces raid Rome during WW II

1980 _ 22nd modern Olympic games opens in Moscow; U.S. and others boycott

1990 _ Richard Nixon library opens in Yorba Linda, Calif

1991 _ Miss Black America contestant accuses Mike Tyson of rape