Today is Friday, July 20, the 200th day of 2007. There are 165 days left in the year.
1810 _ Colombia declared independence from Spain
1868 _ 1st use of tax stamps on cigarettes
1871 _ British Columbia becomes 6th Canadian province
1878 _ 1st telephone introduced in Hawaii
1922 _ Togo made a mandate of the League of Nations
1938 _ Finland awarded 1940 Olympic games after Japan withdraws
1944 _ President FDR nominated for an unprecedented 4th term at Dem convention
1944 _ U.S. invades Japanese-occupied Guam in WW II
1949 _ Israel's 19 month war of independence ends
1956 _ France recognizes Tunisia's independence
1960 _ USSR recovered 2 dogs; 1st living organisms to return from space
1969 _ 1st men on Moon, Neil Armstrong & Edwin Aldrin, Apollo 11
1974 _ Turkey invades Cyprus
1976 _ U.S. Viking 1 lands on Mars at Chryse Planitia, 1st Martian landing
1996 _ 26th Olympic Summer games opens in Atlanta, Georgia