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