ANDREWS MCMEEL ALMANAC
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Today is the 207th day of 2024 and the 36th day of summer.
TODAY'S HISTORY: In 1952, Puerto Rico became a self-governing U.S. commonwealth.
In 1978, Louise Joy Brown, the first baby to be born after being conceived via in vitro fertilization, was delivered in Greater Manchester, England.
In 2005, two major unions, the Teamsters and the Service Employees International Union, withdrew from the AFL-CIO.
In 2010, the website WikiLeaks released the "Afghan War Diary," containing more than 90,000 secret documents pertaining to the United States' war in Afghanistan.
TODAY'S BIRTHDAYS: Henry Knox (1750-1806), general/first U.S. secretary of war; Maxfield Parrish (1870-1966), painter/illustrator; Rosalind Franklin (1920-1958), chemist; Estelle Getty (1923-2008), actress; Walter Payton (1954-1999), football player; Iman (1955- ), model/actress; Thurston Moore (1958- ), musician; Geoffrey Zakarian (1959- ), chef/TV personality; Matt LeBlanc (1967- ), actor; Lauren Faust (1974- ), animator.
TODAY'S FACT: The Viking Orbiter 1 spacecraft, while searching for potential landing sites for the Viking 2 Lander, snapped the famous "Face on Mars" photo of the planet's surface on this day in 1976.
TODAY'S SPORTS: In 1976, American Edwin Moses ran in his first international track and field event at the Montreal Olympics -- the 400-meter hurdles -- and won a gold medal, with a record-setting time of 47.64 seconds.
TODAY'S QUOTE: "You really have to save yourself because the critic within you will eat you up. It's not the outside world -- it's your interior life, that critic within you, that you have to silence." -- Iman
TODAY'S NUMBER: 3.2 million -- approximate combined membership of the Teamsters and the Service Employees International Union in 2024.
TODAY'S MOON: Between full moon (July 21) and last quarter moon (July 27).