MONDAY, JULY 20, 2015

Today is Monday, July 20, the 201st day of 2015. There are 164 days left in the year.

1810 ― Colombia declares independence from Spain

1858 ― Fee first charged to see a baseball game (50 cents) (N.Y. beats Brooklyn 22-18)

1868 ― First use of tax stamps on cigarettes

1872 ― Mahlon Loomis receives patent for wireless ... the radio is born

1938 ― Finland awarded 1940 Olympic games after Japan withdraws

1940 ― Singles record charts first published by Billboard; Tommy Dorsey is No. 1

1944 ― President FDR nominated for an unprecedented fourth term at Democratic convention

1944 ― U.S. invades Japanese-occupied Guam in WW II

1960 ― USSR recovered two dogs; first living organisms to return from space

1969 ― First men on Moon, Neil Armstrong and Edwin Aldrin, Apollo 11

1976 ― U.S. Viking 1 lands on Mars at Chryse Planitia; first Martian landing

1991 ― Mike Tyson is accused of raping a Miss Black America contestant