Today is Wednesday, July 8, the 189th day of 2009. There are 176 days left in the year.
1870 _ Congress authorizes registration of trademarks
1876 _ White terrorists attack Black Republicans in Hamburg, S.C, killing five
1889 _ Wall Street Journal begins publishing
1919 _ President Wilson returns to NYC from Versailles Peace Conference
1932 _ Depression low point of Dow Jones Industrial Average, 41.22
1950 _ Gen. Douglas MacArthur named commander-in-chief, U.N. forces in Korea
1969 _ U.S. troop withdrawal begins in Vietnam
1981 _ Senate confirms Sandra Day O'Conner to Supreme Court (99-0)
1988 _ Stevie Wonder announces he will run for mayor of Detroit in 1992
1990 _ 12:34:56 on 7/8/90 (1234567890)