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SATURDAY, JULY 18, 2009

Today is Saturday, July 18, the 199th day of 2009. There are 166 days left in the year. 390 B.C. _ Battle of Allia-Gauls inflict heavy casualties on Romans 64 _ Great Fire of Rome begins (Nero didn't fiddle) 1872 _ Britain introduces secret ballot voting 1936 _ Spanish Civil War begins, Gen. Francisco Franco led uprising 1955 _ First electric power generated from atomic energy sold commercially 1966 _ Carl Sagan turns 1 billion seconds old 1968 _ Intel incorporates 1978 _ Egyptian and Israeli officials begin two days of talks 1978 _ Billy Martin suspends Reggie Jackson for not bunting 1986 _ Videotapes released showing Titanic's sunken remains

Jul 16, 2009

FRIDAY, JULY 17, 2009

Today is Friday, July 17, the 198th day of 2009. 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 1898 _ Spanish American War ― Spaniards surrender to U.S. at Santiago Cuba 1948 _ Proclamation of the constitution of the Republic of Korea 1954 _ First major league game where majority of team is black (Dodgers) 1955 _ Disneyland opens its doors in rural Orange County, Calif. 1967 _ Monkees perform at Forest Hills, N.Y., Jimi Hendrix is opening act 1975 _ Apollo 18 and Soyuz 19 make first U.S.-USSR linkup in space 1990 _ Hussein's Revolutionary Day speech claims Kuwait stole oil from Iraq

Jul 16, 2009

THURSDAY, JULY 16, 2009

Today is Thursday, July 16, the 197th day of 2009. There are 168 days left in the year. 463 _ Start of Lunar Cycle of Hilarius 622 _ Origin of the Islamic Era (Muharram 1, 1 A.H.) 1212 _ Battle of Las Navas de Tolosa; end of Moslem power in Spain 1439 _ Kissing is banned in England 1926 _ National Geographic takes first natural-color undersea photos 1936 _ First x-ray photo of arterial circulation, Rochester, N.Y. 1945 _ First atomic bomb detonated, Trinity Site, Alamogordo, New Mexico 1951 _ Novel ``Catcher in the Rye" by J.D. Salinger published 1969 _ Apollo 11, carrying first men to land on the Moon, launched 1981 _ Shukuni Sasaki of Japan spins 72 plates simultaneously

Jul 15, 2009

WEDNESDAY, JULY 15, 2009

Today is Wednesday, July 15, the 196th day of 2009. There are 169 days left in the year. 1815 _ Napoleon Bonaparte captured 1869 _ Margarine is patented in Paris, for use by French Navy 1893 _ Commodore Perry arrives in Japan 1911 _ 46 inches of rain falls in Baguio, Philippines 1933 _ Wiley Post began first solo flight around the world 1937 _ Japanese attack Marco Polo Bridge, invade China 1954 _ First commercial jet transport plane built in U.S. tested (Boeing 707) 1971 _ President Nixon announces he would visit People's Republic of China 1987 _ John Poindexter testifies at Iran-Contra hearings 1991 _ U.S. troops leave northern Iraq

Jul 14, 2009

TUESDAY, JULY 14, 2009

Today is Tuesday, July 14, the 195th day of 2009. There are 170 days left in the year. 1789 _ Bastille Day-citizens of Paris storm Bastille prison 1850 _ First public demonstration of ice made by refrigeration 1853 _ Commodore Perry requests trade relations with Japan 1865 _ First ascent of 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 _ Steve Miller's star is unveiled on Hollywood's Walk of Fame 1987 _ Taiwan ends 37 years of martial law 1989 _ The 16th James Bond movies ``License to Kill" premiers

Jul 13, 2009

MONDAY, JULY 13, 2009

Today is Monday, July 13, the 194th day of 2009. There are 171 days left in the year. 432 B.C. _ Origin of Metonic Cycle 1836 _ U.S. patent No. 1 (after 9,957 unnumbered patents), for locomotive wheels 1865 _ Horace Greeley advises his readers to ``Go west young man" 1908 _ Fourth modern Olympic games opens in London 1917 _ Vision of Virgin Mary appeared to children of Fatima, Portugal 1969 _ Russia launches unmanned Luna 15 to Moon 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 president by chairman Henry Ford II 1985 _ Live Aid, a rock concert in London, Philadelphia, Moscow and Sydney

Jul 12, 2009

SATURDAY, JULY 11, 2009

Today is Saturday, July 11, the 192nd day of 2009. There are 173 days left in the year. 1533 _ Pope Clement VII excommunicates England's King Henry VIII 1798 _ U.S. Marine Corps created by an act of Congress 1804 _ V.P. Aaron Burr kills Alex Hamilton in a pistol duel near Weehawken 1921 _ Mongolia gains independence from China (National Day) 1962 _ First transatlantic TV transmission via satellite (Telstar I) 1969 _ David Bowie releases ``Space Oddity" 1977 _ Medal of Freedom awarded posthumously to Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. 1988 _ Mike Tyson hires Donald Trump as an advisor 1989 _ President Ronald Reagan sportscasts the All Star Game 1991 _ Total solar eclipse is seen in Hawaii

Jul 10, 2009

FRIDAY, JULY 10, 2009

Today is Friday, July 10, the 191st day of 2009. There are 174 days left in the year. 552 _ Origin of Armenian calendar 1866 _ Indelible pencil patented by Edson P. Clark, Northampton, Mass. 1892 _ First concrete-paved street built (Bellefountaine, Ohio) 1918 _ Russian Soviet Federal Socialist Republic established 1923 _ All non-fascist parties dissolved in Italy 1925 _ USSR's official news agency TASS established 1962 _ Martin Luther King Jr. arrested during demonstration in Georgia 1965 _ Rolling Stones score their first No. 1, ``I Can't Get No Satisfaction" 1985 _ Coca-Cola Co announces it will resume selling old formula Coke 1985 _ French agents sink Greenpeace's Rainbow Warrior in New Zealand

Jul 9, 2009

THURSDAY, JULY 9, 2009

Today is Thursday, July 9, the 190th day of 2009. There are 175 days left in the year. 1540 _ England 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 1872 _ Doughnut cutter patented by John Blondel, Thomaston, Maine 1893 _ Daniel H. Williams performs ``world's first successful heart operation" 1915 _ Germany surrenders South West Africa to Union of South Africa 1947 _ Britain's Princess Elizabeth and Lt. Philip Mountbatten's engagement 1955 _ Bill Haley & Comets' ``Rock Around the Clock" tops billboards chart 1957 _ Discovery of element 102 (Nobelium) announced 1982 _ Margaret Thatcher begins her second term as British prime minister

Jul 8, 2009

WEDNESDAY, JULY 8, 2009

Today is Wednesday, July 8, the 189th day of 2009. There are 176 days left in the year. 1870 _ Congress authorizes registration of trademarks 1876 _ White terrorists attack Black Republicans in Hamburg, S.C, killing five 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 1969 _ U.S. troop withdrawal begins in Vietnam 1981 _ Senate confirms Sandra Day O'Conner to Supreme Court (99-0) 1988 _ Stevie Wonder announces he will run for mayor of Detroit in 1992 1990 _ 12:34:56 on 7/8/90 (1234567890)

Jul 7, 2009

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