Today is Thursday, July 19, the 201st day of 2012. There are 165 days left in the year.
2781 B.C. ― Presumed start of Egyptian calendar
1848 ― First women's rights convention (Seneca Falls, N.Y.)
1877 ― First Wimbledon tennis championships held
1939 ― First use of fiberglass sutures, R.P. Scholz, St. Louis, Mo.
1941 ― British P.M. Winston Churchill launched his ``V for Victory" campaign
1957 ― First rocket with nuclear warhead fired, Yucca Flat, Nev.
1961 ― First in-flight movie shown (TWA)
1975 ― Apollo & Soyuz linked in orbit for two days, separate
1976 ― Rock group Deep Purple disbands
1980 ― 22nd modern Olympic games opens in Moscow; U.S. and others boycott