Today is Friday, July 23, the 204th day of 2010. There are 161 days left in the year.
636 ― Arabs gain control of most of Palestine from the Byzantine Empire
1798 ― Napoleon captures Alexandria, Egypt
1829 ― William Austin Burt patents ``typographer" (typewriter)
1904 ― Ice cream cone created by Charles E. Menches during La Purchase Expo
1914 ― Austria-Hungary issues ultimatum to Serbia leading to WW I
1931 ― France announces they can't afford to send a team to 1932 L.A. Olympics
1966 ― Napoleon XIV releases ``They're Coming to Take Me Away, Ha! Ha!"
1967 ― 43 killed in racial rebellion in Detroit (2,000 injured, 442 fires)
1978 ― Israeli cabinet rejects Sadat's call for return of two Sinai areas
1984 ― Vanessa Williams, first black Miss America, resigns due to posing nude