Today is Saturday, July 20, the 201st day of 2013. There are 164 days left in the year.
1810 ― Colombia declared independence from Spain
1858 ― Fee first charged to see a baseball game (50 cents); N.Y. beats Brooklyn 22-18)
1871 ― British Columbia becomes sixth Canadian province
1881 ― Sioux Indian leader Sitting Bull, surrenders to federal troops
1922 ― Togo made a mandate of the League of Nations
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