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FRIDAY, JULY 20, 2007

Today is Friday, July 20, the 200th day of 2007. There are 165 days left in the year. 1810 _ Colombia declared independence from Spain 1868 _ 1st use of tax stamps on cigarettes 1871 _ British Columbia becomes 6th Canadian province 1878 _ 1st telephone introduced in Hawaii 1922 _ Togo made a mandate of the League of Nations 1938 _ Finland awarded 1940 Olympic games after Japan withdraws 1944 _ President FDR nominated for an unprecedented 4th term at Dem convention 1944 _ U.S. invades Japanese-occupied Guam in WW II 1949 _ Israel's 19 month war of independence ends 1956 _ France recognizes Tunisia's independence 1960 _ USSR recovered 2 dogs; 1st living organisms to return from space 1969 _ 1st men on Moon, Neil Armstrong & Edwin Aldrin, Apollo 11 1974 _ Turkey invades Cyprus 1976 _ U.S. Viking 1 lands on Mars at Chryse Planitia, 1st Martian landing 1996 _ 26th Olympic Summer games opens in Atlanta, Georgia

Jul 19, 2007

THURSDAY, JULY 19, 2007

Today is Thursday, July 19, the 199th day of 2007. There are 166 days left in the year. 514 _ St. Symmachus ends his reign as Catholic Pope 1848 _ First women's rights convention (Seneca Falls, N.Y.) 1860 _ First railroad reaches Kansas 1870 _ France declares war on Prussia; the Franco-Prussian war begins 1877 _ First Wimbledon tennis championships held 1941 _ British PM Winston Churchill launched his ``V for Victory’’ campaign 1949 _ Laos becomes associated state within French Union 1952 _ 15th modern Olympic games opens in Helsinki 1957 _ First rocket with nuclear warhead fired in Yucca Flat, Nevada 1969 _ Apollo 11 goes into Moon orbit 1979 _ Nicaragua Liberation Day; Sandinistas take over from Somoza 1986 _ Caroline Kennedy weds Edwin A Schlossberg in Centerville, Mass. 1991 _ Miss Black America contestant accuses Mike Tyson of rape

Jul 18, 2007

WEDNESDAY, JULY 18, 2007

Today is Tuesday, July 18, the 198th day of 2007. There are 167 days left in the year. 64 _ The Great Fire of Rome begins (Nero didn't fiddle) 1536 _ Pope’s authority declared void in England 1872 _ Britain introduces secret ballot voting 1918 _ U.S. and French forces launch Aisne-Marne offensive in WWI 1931 _ The first air-conditioned ship (Mariposa) launched 1936 _ Spanish Civil War begins, Gen. Francisco Franco led uprising 1947 _ The U.S. receives U.N. trusteeship over Pacific Islands 1951 _ Uruguay accepts its constitution 1955 _ The first electric power generated from atomic energy sold commercially 1959 _ The first black to win a major golf tournament (William Wright) 1967 _ Silver hits record $1.87 an ounce in NY 1969 _ Mary Jo Kopechne and Sen. Kennedy plunge off Chappaquiddick bridge 1974 _ The world's tallest structure, 646-m Polish radio mast, completed 1979 _ Gold hits record $303.85 an ounce in London 1980 _ Billy Joel's Glass Houses album tops charts 1986 _ Videotapes released showing Titanic's sunken remai

Jul 17, 2007

TUESDAY, JULY 17, 2007

Today is Tuesday, July 17, the 197th day of 2007. There are 168 days left in the year. 561 _ John III begins his reign as Catholic Pope 855 _ St. Leo IV ends his reign as Catholic Pope 1549 _ Jews are expelled from Ghent Belgium 1898 _ Spanish American War-Spaniads surrender to U.S. at Santiago Cuba 1948 _ Proclamation of the Constitution of the Republic of Korea 1959 _ Tibet abolishes serfdom 1968 _ Beatle's animated film ``Yellow Submarine’’ premiers in London 1968 _ Revolt in Iraq 1984 _ Soyuz T-12 carries 3 cosmonauts to space station Salyut 7 1989 _ Paul McCartney releases ``This One’’ 1990 _ Hussein's Revolutionary Day speech claims Kuwait stole oil from Iraq

Jul 16, 2007

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