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WEDNESDAY, JULY 13, 2011

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Today is Wednesday, July 13, the 194th day of 2011. There are 171 days left in the year.

432 B.C. _ Origin of Metonic Cycle

1568 _ Dean of St. Paul's Cathedral perfects a way to bottle beer

1793 _ French revolutionary writer Jean Paul Marat murdered by Charlotte Corday

1836 _ U.S. patent No.1 (after 9,957 unnumbered patents), for locomotive wheels

1868 _ Oscar J Dunn, former slave, installed as lieutenant governor of Louisiana

1917 _ Vision of Virgin Mary appeared to children of Fatima, Portugal

1960 _ Democratic National convention nominates Sen. John F. Kennedy for president

1978 _ Alexander Ginsburg sentenced by Soviet court to eight years

1984 _ Sergei Bubka of USSR pole vaults a record 5.89 m

1985 _ Live Aid, a rock concert in London, Philadelphia, Moscow and Sydney