Today is Thursday, July 22, the 203rd day of 2010. There are 162 days left in the year.
1898 ― Belgian crew see first sunrise in 1,600 hours _ first to endure Antarctic winter
1917 ― Alexander Kerensky becomes Russian P.M.
1923 ― Walter Johnson becomes the first to strikeout 3,000
1937 ― Senate rejects FDR proposal to enlarge Supreme Court
1967 ― Jimi Hendrix quits as opening act of the Monkees' tour
1969 ― Aretha Franklin arrested for disturbing the peace in Detroit
1983 ― Dick Smith makes first solo helicopter flight around the world
1984 ― Kathy Whitworth wins a record 85th pro golf tournament
1988 ― 500 U.S. scientists pledge to boycott Pentagon germ-warfare research
1991 ― Jeffrey Dahmer confesses to killing 17 males in 1978