Today is Tuesday, July 20, the 201st day of 2010. There are 164 days left in the year.
1872 ― Mahlon Loomis receives patent for wireless ... the radio is born
1940 ― Singles record charts first published by Billboard _ Tommy Dorsey No. 11
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
1949 ― Israel's 19-month war of independence ends
1960 ― USSR recovered two dogs; first living organisms to return from space
1968 ― Iron Butterfly's ``In-a-gadda-da-vida" becomes the first heavy metal
song to hit the charts, it comes in at No. 117
1969 ― First men on Moon, Neil Armstrong and Edwin Aldrin, Apollo 11
1991 ― Mike Tyson is accused of raping a Miss Black America contestant