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MONDAY, JULY 19, 2010

Today is Monday, July 19, the 200th day of 2010. 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 1913 ― Billboard publishes earliest known ``Last Week's 10 Best Sellers among Popular Songs ``Malinda's Wedding Day is No. 1 1941 ― British P.M. Winston Churchill launched his ``V for Victory" campaign 1957 ― First rocket with nuclear warhead fired, Yucca Flat, Nev. 1976 ― Rock group Deep Purple disbands 1979 ― Two supertankers collide off Tobago _ 260,000 tons of oil spill 1980 ― 22nd modern Olympic Games opens in Moscow; U.S. and others boycott 1991 ― Miss Black America contestant accuses Mike Tyson of rape

Jul 18, 2010

SATURDAY, JULY 17, 2010

Today is Saturday, July 17, the 198th day of 2010. There are 167 days left in the year. 1841 ― British humor magazine ``Punch" first published 1850 ― Harvard Observatory takes first photograph of a star (Vega) 1861 ― Congress authorizes paper money 1917 ― British Royal family changes its name from Hanover to Windsor 1945 ― Potsdam Conference (FDR, Stalin, Churchill) holds first meeting 1948 ― Proclamation of the constitution of the Republic of Korea 1954 ― Construction begins on Disneyland 1959 ― Tibet abolishes serfdom 1967 ― Monkees perform at Forest Hills, N.Y., Jimi Hendrix is opening act 1990 ― Hussein's Revolutionary Day speech claims Kuwait stole oil from Iraq

Jul 16, 2010

FRIDAY, JULY 16, 2010

Today is Friday, July 16, the 197th day of 2010. There are 168 days left in the year. 1439 ― Kissing is banned in England 1894 ― Treaty of Aoki-Kimberley signed between Japan and England 1912 ― Naval torpedo launched from an airplane patented by B.A. Fiske 1945 ― First atomic bomb detonated, Trinity Site, Alamogordo, New Mexico 1951 ― Novel ``Catcher in the Rye" by J.D. Salinger published 1960 ― 205,000 (record sports attend) see Brazil-Uruguay World Cup soccer 1969 ― Apollo 11, carrying first men to land on the Moon, launched 1981 ― Shukuni Sasaki spins 72 plates simultaneously 1988 ― Carl Lewis runs a wind-assisted 100 meters in 9.78 seconds 1988 ― Florence Joyner runs 100 meters in women's world record of 10.49 seconds

Jul 15, 2010

THURSDAY, JULY 15, 2010

Today is Thursday, July 15, the 196th day of 2010. There are 169 days left in the year. 1815 ― Napoleon Bonaparte captured 1869 ― Margarine is patented in Paris, for use by French Navy 1876 ― Baseballs first no-hitter, St. Louis' George W. Bradley no-hits Hartford 1888 ― Bandai volcano (Japan) erupts for first time in 1,000 years 1937 ― Japanese attack Marco Polo Bridge, invade China 1941 ― Florey and Heatley present freeze dried mold cultures (Penicillin) 1965 ― U.S. scientists display close-up photos of Mars from Mariner IV 1970 ― Denmark beats Italy 2-0 in first world female soccer championship 1971 ― President Nixon announces he would visit People's Republic of China 1991 ― U.S. troops leave northern Iraq

Jul 14, 2010

WEDNESDAY, JULY 14, 2010

Today is Wednesday, July 14, the 195th day of 2010. There are 170 days left in the year. 1789 ― Bastille Day ― citizens of Paris storm Bastille Prison 1832 ― Opium exempted from federal tariff duty 1850 ― First public demonstration of ice made by refrigeration 1853 ― Commodore Perry requests trade relations with Japan 1865 ― First ascent of Mt. Matterhorn 1914 ― Robert Hutchins Goddard patents a liquid-fuel rocket motor 1950 ― R.E. Wayne awarded first Distinguished Flying Cross in Korea 1958 ― Iraqi army overthrows monarchy; republic replaces Hashemite Dynasty 1987 ― Taiwan ends 37 years of martial law 1989 ― The 16th James Bond movies ``License to Kill" premiers

Jul 13, 2010

TUESDAY, JULY 13, 2010

Today is Tuesday, July 13, the 194th day of 2010. There are 171 days left in the year. 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 1930 ― Sarnoff reports in NY Times ``TV would be a theater in every home" 1960 ― Democratic Notational 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 Pres by chairman Henry Ford II 1984 ― Sergei Bubka of USSR pole vaults a record 5.89 m 1985 ― Live Aid, a rock concert in London, Philadelphia, Moscow and Sydney

Jul 12, 2010

MONDAY, JULY 12, 2010

Today is Monday, July 12, the 193rd day of 2010. There are 172 days left in the year. 1543 _ England's King Henry VIII weds Catherine Parr (sixth & last wife) 1817 _ First flower show held (Dannybrook, County Cork, Ireland) 1859 _ Paper bag manufacturing machine patented by William Goodale, Mass. 1906 _ Alfred Dreyfus found innocent in France 1914 _ Babe Ruth makes his baseball debut, pitches for the Red Sox 1933 _ Congress passes first minimum wage law (33 cents per hour) 1960 _ Congo, Chad and Central African Republic declare independence 1967 _ Blacks in Newark, riot, 26 killed, 1500 injured and over 1000 arrested 1970 _ Janis Joplin debuts in Kentucky 1977 _ First free flight test of space shuttle Enterprise

Jul 11, 2010

SATURDAY, JULY 10, 2010

Today is Saturday, July 10, the 191st day of 2010. There are 174 days left in the year. 1847 _ Urbain J.J. Leverrier and John Couch Adams, co-discoverers of Neptune, meet for first time 1866 _ Indelible pencil patented by Edson P. Clark, Northampton, Mass. 1914 _ Boston Red Sox purchase Babe Ruth from the Baltimore Orioles 1918 _ Russian Soviet Federal Socialist Republic established 1919 _ Pres Wilson personally delivers Treaty of Versailles to Senate 1923 _ All non-fascist parties dissolved in Italy 1940 _ Battle of Britain began as Nazi forces attacked by air 1962 _ Martin Luther King Jr. arrested during demonstration in Georgia 1965 _ Beatles' ``Beatles' VI," album goes No. 1 and stays No. 1 for six weeks 1965 _ Rolling Stones score their first No. 1, ``I Can't Get No Satisfaction"

Jul 9, 2010

FRIDAY, JULY 9, 2010

Today is Friday, July 9, the 190th day of 2010. There are 175 days left in the year. 1540 _ England's King Henry VIII's six-month marriage to Anne of Cleves annulled 1595 _ Johannes Kepler inscribes geometric solid construction of universe 1816 _ Argentina declares independence from Spain 1853 _ Admiral Perry and U.S. Navy visit Japan 1893 _ Daniel H Williams performs ``world's first successful heart operation" 1947 _ Britain's Princess Elizabeth and Lt. Philip Mountbatten's engagement 1976 _ Uganda asks U.N. to condemn Israeli hostage rescue raid on Entebbe 1978 _ American Nazi Party, holds a rally at Marquette Park, Chicago 1978 _ Nearly 100,000 demonstrators march on Washington, D.C. for ERA 1982 _ Margaret Thatcher begins her second term as British prime minister

Jul 8, 2010

THURSDAY, JULY 8, 2010

Today is Thursday, July 8, the 189th day of 2010. There are 176 days left in the year. 1889 ― Wall Street Journal begins publishing 1919 ― President Wilson returns to NYC from Versailles Peace Conference 1932 ― Depression low point of Dow Jones Industrial Average, 41.22 1950 ― Gen Douglas MacArthur named commander-in-chief, U.N. forces in Korea 1950 ― Leroy Deans awarded first Order of Purple Heart in Korea 1967 ― Billie Jean King concludes Wimbledon sweep (singles, doubles & mix) 1969 ― U.S. troop withdrawal begins in Vietnam 1977 ― Sabra Starr finishes longest recorded belly dance (100 hours) 1988 ― Stevie Wonder announces he will run for mayor of Detroit in 1992 1990 ― 12:34:56 on 7/8/90 (1234567890)

Jul 7, 2010

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