Today is Saturday, July 24, the 205th day of 2010. There are 160 days left in the year.
1704 ― Great Britain takes Gibralter from Spain
1783 ― Georgia becomes a protectorate of tsarist Russia
1847 ― Rotary-type printing press patented by Richard March Hoe, NYC
1948 ― Soviets blockades Berlin from the West
1959 ― V.P. Nixon argued with Khrushchev, known as ``Kitchen Debate"
1963 ― 124 Unification Church couples wed in Korea
1965 ― Bob Dylan release ``Like a Rolling Stone"
1969 ― Muhammad Ali is convicted for refusing induction in U.S. Army on appeal
1974 ― Supreme Court unanimously rules Nixon must turn over Watergate tapes
1991 ― University of Manchester scientist announce finding a planet outside of
the solar system