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