Today is Wednesday, July 24, the 205th day of 2013. There are 160 days left in the year.
1704 ― Great Britain takes Gibraltar from Spain
1783 ― Georgia becomes a protectorate of tsarist Russia
1847 ― Brigham Young and his Mormon followers arrive at Salt Lake City, Utah
1847 ― Rotary-type printing press patented by Richard March Hoe, NYC
1877 ― First time federal troops are used to combat strikers
1948 ― Soviets blockades Berlin from the West
1959 ― V.P. Nixon argued with Khrushchev, known as “Kitchen Debate”
1965 ― Bob Dylan release “Like a Rolling Stone”
1967 ― Beatles sign a petition in The Times to legalize marijuana
1991 ― University of Manchester scientist announce finding a planet outside of
the solar system