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Today in History: Wednesday, July\u00a0 20, 2016<\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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AP Highlight in History:<\/span>
\nOn July 20, 1969, astronaut Neil Armstrong became the first man to walk on the moon.<\/p>\n

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On this date in:<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1810<\/td>\nColombia declared independence from Spain.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1861<\/td>\nThe Congress of the Confederate States began holding sessions in Richmond, Va.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1871<\/td>\nBritish Columbia joined the confederation as a Canadian province.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1881<\/td>\nSioux Indian leader Sitting Bull surrendered to federal troops.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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1917<\/td>\nThe World War I draft lottery began.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1944<\/td>\nAdolf Hitler was only slightly wounded when a bomb planted by would-be assassins exploded at the German leader’s Rastenburg headquarters.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1944<\/td>\nPresident Franklin D. Roosevelt was nominated for an unprecedented fourth term at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1976<\/td>\nAmerica’s Viking 1 robot spacecraft landed on Mars.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1977<\/td>\nA flash flood hit Johnstown, Pa., killing 80 people and causing $350 million in damage.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1990<\/td>\nA federal appeals court set aside Oliver North’s Iran-Contra convictions.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1993<\/td>\nWhite House deputy counsel Vince Foster was found shot to death in a park near Washington, D.C., in an apparent suicide.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1999<\/td>\nAfter 38 years at the bottom of the Atlantic, astronaut Gus Grissom’s Liberty Bell 7 Mercury capsule was recovered.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2007<\/td>\nThe Senate Judiciary Committee voted almost totally along party lines, 13-6, to approve Elena Kagan to be the Supreme Court’s fourth female justice.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
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Today’s Birthdays:<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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Sen. Barbara Mikulski, D-Md., turns 80 years old today.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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Diana Rigg<\/td>\nActress (“The Avengers”)<\/td>\n78<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
John Lodge<\/td>\nRock musician (The Moody Blues)<\/td>\n73<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Kim Carnes<\/td>\nRock singer<\/td>\n71<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Larry Craig<\/td>\nFormer U.S. senator, R-Idaho<\/td>\n71<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Carlos Santana<\/td>\nRock musician<\/td>\n69<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Josh Holloway<\/td>\nActor (“Lost”)<\/td>\n47<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Omar Epps<\/td>\nActor (“House M.D.”)<\/td>\n43<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Peter Forsberg<\/td>\nHockey player<\/td>\n43<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Judy Greer<\/td>\nActress<\/td>\n41<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Charlie Korsmo<\/td>\nActor<\/td>\n38<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Elliott Yamin<\/td>\nSinger (“American Idol”)<\/td>\n38<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Gisele Bundchen<\/td>\nModel<\/td>\n36<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Stephen Strasburg<\/td>\nBaseball player<\/td>\n28<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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Singer-dancer Julianne Hough (“Dancing with the Stars”) turns 28 years old today.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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