SATURDAY, JULY 20, 2013

Today is Saturday, July 20, the 201st day of 2013. There are 164 days left in the year.

1810 ― Colombia declared independence from Spain

1858 ― Fee first charged to see a baseball game (50 cents); N.Y. beats Brooklyn 22-18)

1871 ― British Columbia becomes sixth Canadian province

1881 ― Sioux Indian leader Sitting Bull, surrenders to federal troops

1922 ― Togo made a mandate of the League of Nations

1940 ― Singles record charts first published by Billboard; Tommy Dorsey is No. 1

1944 ― President FDR nominated for an unprecedented fourth term at Democratic convention

1944 ― U.S. invades Japanese-occupied Guam in WW II

1960 ― USSR recovered two dogs; first living organisms to return from space

1969 ― First men on Moon, Neil Armstrong and Edwin Aldrin, Apollo 11