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MONDAY, JULY 19, 2010

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Today is Monday, July 19, the 200th day of 2010. There are 165 days left in the year.

2781 B.C. ― Presumed start of Egyptian calendar

1848 ― First women's rights convention (Seneca Falls, N.Y.)

1877 ― First Wimbledon tennis championships held

1913 ― Billboard publishes earliest known ``Last Week's 10 Best Sellers

among Popular Songs ``Malinda's Wedding Day is No. 1

1941 ― British P.M. Winston Churchill launched his ``V for Victory" campaign

1957 ― First rocket with nuclear warhead fired, Yucca Flat, Nev.

1976 ― Rock group Deep Purple disbands

1979 ― Two supertankers collide off Tobago _ 260,000 tons of oil spill

1980 ― 22nd modern Olympic Games opens in Moscow; U.S. and others boycott

1991 ― Miss Black America contestant accuses Mike Tyson of rape