Today is Friday, July 22, the 203rd day of 2011. There are 162 days left in the year.
1775 ― George Washington takes command of the troops
1898 ― Belgica crew see first sunrise in 1600 hours; first to endure Antarctic winter
1918 ― Lightning kills 504 sheep in Utah's Wasatch National Park
1923 ― Walter Johnson becomes the first to strikeout 3,000
1933 ― Wiley Post completes first round-the-world solo flight
1962 ― First US Venus probe, Mariner 1, fails at lift-off
1967 ― Jimi Hendrix quits as opening act of the Monkees' tour
1983 ― Dick Smith makes first solo helicopter flight around the world
1988 ― 500 U.S. scientists pledge to boycott Pentagon germ-warfare research
1991 ― Jeffrey Dahmer confesses to killing 17 males in 1978