Today is Saturday, July 31, the 212th day of 2010. There are 153 days left in the year.
1498 ― Christopher Columbus discovers island of Trinidad
1912 ― U.S. government prohibits movies and photos of prize fights (censorship)
1922 ― Eighteen-year-old Ralph Samuelson rides world's first water skis (Minn.)
1925 ― Unemployment Insurance Act passed in England
1938 ― NY Yanks suspend Jake Powell, after he said on Chicago radio he'd
``hit every colored person in Chicago over the head with a club"
1942 ― German SS gases 1,000 Jews in Minsk, Belorussia
1949 ― Lightning strikes a baseball field in Florida, kills the SS and third baseman
1962 ― Federation of Malaysia formed
1981 ― Forty two- day-old, second major league baseball strike ends
1990 ― Nolan Ryan becomes the 20th Major League pitcher to win 300 games