Saturday History – The Albany Herald

Today is the 207th day of 2020 and the 36th day of summer.

In 1952, Puerto Rico became a self-governing U.S. commonwealth.

In 1978, Louise Joy Brown, the first baby to be conceived via in vitro fertilization, was born 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 75,000 secret documents from the United States war in Afghanistan.

TODAYS BIRTHDAYS: Henry Knox (1750-1806), first U.S. secretary of war; Maxfield Parrish (1870-1966), painter/illustrator; Eric Hoffer (1902-1983), philosopher; Rosalind Franklin (1920-1958), biophysicist; Estelle Getty (1923-2008), actress; Walter Payton (1954-1999), football player; Iman (1955-), model/actress; Thurston Moore (1958-), musician; Matt LeBlanc (1967-), actor; Lauren Faust (1974-), animator.

TODAYS 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 planets surface on this day in 1976.

TODAYS SPORTS: In 1976, American Edwin Moses ran in his first international track and field event at the Montreal Olympics the 400m hurdles and won a gold medal, with a record-setting time of 47.64 seconds.

TODAYS QUOTE: You really have to save yourself because the critic within you will eat you up. Its not the outside world its your interior life, that critic within you, that you have to silence. Iman

TODAYS NUMBER: 4.9 million approximate combined membership of the Teamsters and the Service Employees International unions in 2019.

TODAYS MOON: Between new moon (July 20) and first quarter moon (July 27).

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Saturday History - The Albany Herald