Today is Friday, July 13, the 195th day of 2012. There are 171 days left in the year.
432 B.C. ― Origin of Metonic Cycle
1898 ― Guglielmo Marconi patents the radio
1908 ― Fourth modern Olympic Games opens in London
1917 ― Vision of Virgin Mary appeared to children of Fatima, Portugal
1934 ― Babe Ruth hits 700th homerun against Detroit
1960 ― Democratic National convention nominates Sen. John F. Kennedy for president
1978 ― Alexander Ginzburg sentenced by Soviet court to eight years
1978 ― BBC bans Sex Pistols ``No One is Innocent"
1978 ― Lee Iacocca fired as Ford Motor president by Chairman Henry Ford II
1985 ― Live Aid, a rock concert in London, Philadelphia, Moscow and Sydney