Today is Tuesday, July 15, the 197th day of 2008. There are 169 days left in the year.
1815 - Napoleon Bonaparte captured
1869 - Margarine is patented in Paris, for use by French Navy
1888 - Bandai volcano (Japan) erupts for first time in 1,000 years
1937 - Japanese attack Marco Polo Bridge, invade China
1952 - First transatlantic helicopter flight begins
1954 - First commercial jet transport plane built in U.S. tested (Boeing 707)
1970 - Denmark beats Italy 2-0 in first world female soccer championship
1971 - U.S. President Nixon announces he would visit People's Rep of China
1975 - Soyuz 19 and Apollo 18 launched; rendezvous two days later
1991 - U.S. troops leave northern Iraq