On this date in

1847 Liberia became an independent republic.

1910 Mother Teresa was born.

1920, the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution went into effect. It's no coincidence that U.S. Sen. Hillary Clinton will commemorate the occasion with her speech tonight at the Democratic National Convention.

1939 The doubleheader between the Cincinnati Reds and the Brooklyn Dodgers at Ebbets Field became the first major league game to be televised.

1964 Lyndon B. Johnson became the Democratic Party's nominee for President (one day short of his 56th birthday).

1974 Charles Lindbergh died.

1978 Cardinal Albino Luciani was elected Pope of the Roman Catholic Church and took the name John Paul I.