WEDNESDAY, JULY 20, 2016

Today is Wednesday, July 20, the 203rd day of 2016. There are 163 days left in the year.

514 ― St Hormisdas begins his reign as Catholic Pope

1773 ― Scottish settlers arrive at Pictou, Nova Scotia (Canada)

1810 ― Colombia declared independence from Spain

1858 ― Fee 1st charged to see a baseball game (50) (NY beats Bkln 22-18)

1861 ― Confederate state’s congress began holding sessions in Richmond, Va

1864 ― Battle of Peachtree Creek-Atlanta Campaign

1868 ― 1st use of tax stamps on cigarettes

1871 ― British Columbia becomes 6th Canadian province

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

1876 ― 1st US intercollegiate track meet held, Saratoga, NY; Princeton wins

1878 ― 1st telephone introduced in Hawaii

1881 ― Sioux Indian leader Sitting Bull, surrenders to federal troops

1890 ― Snow & hail in Calais, ME

1894 ― 2000 fed troops recalled from Chicago, having ended Pullman strike

1903 ― Giuseppe Sarto elected Pope Pius X

1906 ― Bkln Dodger Mal Eason no-hits St Louis Cards, 2-0

1911 ― Boston Red Sox Smokey Joe Wood no-hits St Louis Browns, 5-0

1912 ― Phillies Sherry Magee steals home twice in 1 game

1917 ― WWI draft lottery held; #258 is 1st drawn

1922 ― Togo made a mandate of the League of Nations

1923 ― Yanks hit into a triple-play but beat A’s 9-2

1938 ― Finland awarded 1940 Olympic games after Japan withdraws

1940 ― Singles record charts 1st published by Billboard-Tommy Dorsey #1

1941 ― Yanks beat Tigers 12-6 in 17

1942 ― Legion of Merit Medal authorized by congress

1942 ― Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps began basic training at Fort Des Moines

1944 ― Pres FDR nominated for an unprecedented 4th term at Dem convention

1944 ― US invades Japanese-occupied Guam in WW II

1944 ― Von Stauffenberg fails on an attempt on Hitler’s life

1949 ― Israel’s 19 month war of independence ends

1950 ― “Arthur Murray Party” premiers on ABC TV (later DuMont, CBS, NBC)

1954 ― Tennis Champ Maureen Connolly’s right leg is crushed in an accident

1956 ― France recognizes Tunisia’s independence

1956 ― Yankee pitcher Whitey Ford ties AL record of 6 straight strike-outs

1960 ― 1st submerged submarine to fire Polaris missile (George Washington)

1960 ― USSR recovered 2 dogs; 1st living organisms to return from space

1964 ― 1st surfin’ record to go #1-Jan & Dean’s “Surf City”

1965 ― 46.18 cm (18.18”) of rainfall, Edgarton, Missouri (state 24-hr record)

1967 ― Race riots in Memphis Tenn

1968 ― Jane Asher breaks her engagement with Paul McCartney on live TV

Iron Butterfly's "In-a-gadda-da-vida" becomes the 1st heavy metal song to hit the charts, it comes in at #117

1969 ― 1st men on Moon, Neil Armstrong & Edwin Aldrin, Apollo 11

1970 ― 1st baby born on Alcatraz Island

1970 ― LA Angel Bill Singer no-hits Phillies, 5-0

1974 ― Turkey invades Cyprus

1976 ― US Viking 1 lands on Mars at Chryse Planitia, 1st Martian landing

1977 ― Flash flood hits Johnstown, Pa, kills 80 & causing $350 mil damage

1979 ― 44-kg Newfoundland dog pulls 2293-kg load, Bothell, Wash

1982 ― Bombs planted by Irish Republican Army explode in 2 London parks

1984 ― Uwe Hohn of East Germany throws javelin a record 104.8 m

1985 ― Divers find wreck of Spanish galleon Atocha

1987 ― Don Mattingly ties 1st base majors fielding record with 22 put-outs

1988 ― Michael Dukakis selected Democratic presidential nominee

1990 ― Justice William Brennan resigns from the Supreme Court after 36 years

1991 ― Kirk Cameron marries Growing Pains co-star Chelsea Noble in upstate NY

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

1996 ― 26th Olympic Summer games opens in Atlanta, Georgia