WEDNESDAY, JULY 24, 2013

Today is Wednesday, July 24, the 205th day of 2013. There are 160 days left in the year.

1704 ― Great Britain takes Gibraltar from Spain

1783 ― Georgia becomes a protectorate of tsarist Russia

1847 ― Brigham Young and his Mormon followers arrive at Salt Lake City, Utah

1847 ― Rotary-type printing press patented by Richard March Hoe, NYC

1877 ― First time federal troops are used to combat strikers

1948 ― Soviets blockades Berlin from the West

1959 ― V.P. Nixon argued with Khrushchev, known as “Kitchen Debate”

1965 ― Bob Dylan release “Like a Rolling Stone”

1967 ― Beatles sign a petition in The Times to legalize marijuana

1991 ― University of Manchester scientist announce finding a planet outside of

the solar system