Today is Monday, July 20, the 201st day of 2009. There are 164 days left in the year.
1810 _ Colombia declared independence from Spain
1868 _ First use of tax stamps on cigarettes
1881 _ Sioux Indian leader, Sitting Bull, surrenders to federal troops
1944 _ President FDR nominated for an unprecedented fourth term at Democratic convention
1944 _ U.S. invades Japanese-occupied Guam in WW II
1944 _ Von Stauffenberg fails on an attempt on Hitler's life
1960 _ USSR recovered two dogs; first living organisms to return from space
1969 _ First men on Moon, Neil Armstrong and Edwin Aldrin, Apollo 11
1991 _ Mike Tyson is accused of raping a Miss Black America contestant
1996 _ 26th Olympic Summer games opens in Atlanta, Ga.