Today is Tuesday, July 20, the 201st day of 2010. There are 164 days left in the year.
TODAY’S HIGHLIGHT
On July 20, 1969, Apollo 11 astronauts Neil Armstrong and Edwin “Buzz” Aldrin became the first men to walk on the moon after landing their lunar module.
ON THIS DATE
In 1871, British Columbia became a Canadian province.
In 1917, the draft lottery in World War I went into operation.
In 1944, an attempt by a group of German officials to assassinate Adolf Hitler with a bomb failed as the explosion at Hitler’s Rastenburg headquarters only wounded the Nazi leader.
In 1954, the Geneva Accords divided Vietnam into northern and southern entities.
In 1960, a pair of Polaris missiles were fired from the submerged USS George Washington off Cape Canaveral, Fla. at a target more than 1,100 miles away.
In 1976, America’s Viking 1 robot spacecraft made a successful, first-ever landing on Mars.
In 2005, actor James Doohan, who played Scotty the engineer in the original “Star Trek” TV series and several movies, died in Redmond at age 85.
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