Today is Tuesday, July 22, the 204th day of 2008. There are 162 days left in the year.
1775 _ George Washington takes command of the troops
1812 _ Duke of Wellington defeats French at Battle of Salamanca, Spain
1912 _ 5th Olympic games in Stockholm closes
1917 _ Alexander Kerensky becomes Russian P.M.
1923 _ Walter Johnson becomes the first to strikeout 3,000
1939 _ First black woman judge (Jane Matilda Bolin-NYC)
1967 _ Jimi Hendrix quits as opening act of the Monkees' tour
1983 _ Poland's P.M. Jaruzelski lifts martial law
1983 _ Dick Smith makes first solo helicopter flight around the world
1988 _ 500 U.S. scientists pledge to boycott Pentagon germ-warfare research