Today is Saturday, July 17, the 198th day of 2010. There are 167 days left in the year.
1841 ― British humor magazine ``Punch" first published
1850 ― Harvard Observatory takes first photograph of a star (Vega)
1861 ― Congress authorizes paper money
1917 ― British Royal family changes its name from Hanover to Windsor
1945 ― Potsdam Conference (FDR, Stalin, Churchill) holds first meeting
1948 ― Proclamation of the constitution of the Republic of Korea
1954 ― Construction begins on Disneyland
1959 ― Tibet abolishes serfdom
1967 ― Monkees perform at Forest Hills, N.Y., Jimi Hendrix is opening act
1990 ― Hussein's Revolutionary Day speech claims Kuwait stole oil from Iraq