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July 18, 2018 - 11:00 PM

Today is Thursday, July 19, the 200th day of 2018. There are 165 days left in the year.

Today’s Highlight in History:

On July 19, 1980, the Moscow Summer Olympics began, minus dozens of nations that were boycotting the games because of the Soviet military intervention in Afghanistan.

On this date:

In 1848, a pioneering women’s rights convention convened in Seneca Falls, New York.

In 1969, Apollo 11 and its astronauts, Neil Armstrong, Edwin “Buzz” Aldrin and Michael Collins, went into orbit around the moon. In 1979, the Nicaraguan capital of…

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