Today is Tuesday, July 13, the 194th day of 2010. There are 171 days left in the year.
1898 ― Guglielmo Marconi patents the radio
1908 ― Fourth modern Olympic Games opens in London
1917 ― Vision of Virgin Mary appeared to children of Fatima, Portugal
1930 ― Sarnoff reports in NY Times ``TV would be a theater in every home"
1960 ― Democratic Notational convention nominates Sen. John F. Kennedy for president
1978 ― Alexander Ginzburg sentenced by Soviet court to eight years
1978 ― BBC bans Sex Pistols ``No One is Innocent"
1978 ― Lee Iacocca fired as Ford Motor Pres by chairman Henry Ford II
1984 ― Sergei Bubka of USSR pole vaults a record 5.89 m
1985 ― Live Aid, a rock concert in London, Philadelphia, Moscow and Sydney