Today is the 199th day of 2012 and the 28th day of summer.

TODAY'S HISTORY: In 1815, Napoleon Bonaparte made his final surrender to Britain aboard the HMS Bellerophon, 27 days after his defeat at Waterloo.

In 1945, President Harry S. Truman, Soviet Premier Josef Stalin and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill met to discuss postwar Europe and the ongoing war in the Pacific, as the Potsdam Conference began in Germany.

In 1955, Disneyland opened in Anaheim, Calif.

In 1975, a U.S. Apollo spacecraft docked with a Soviet Soyuz spacecraft and astronauts from both countries held the first international meeting in space.

TODAY'S BIRTHDAYS: James Cagney (1899-1986), actor; Phyllis Diller (1917- ), comedian/actress; Diahann Carroll (1935- ), actress; Donald Sutherland (1935- ), actor; David Hasselhoff (1952- ), actor; Angela Merkel (1954- ), German chancellor.

TODAY'S SPORTS: In 1941, Joe DiMaggio's record hitting-streak ended at 56 games as he went hitless in a 4-3 Yankee victory over the Cleveland Indians.

TODAY'S FACT: On Disneyland's opening day, everything that could go wrong did: Power went out, wet paint ruined people's clothes, rides malfunctioned, eateries ran out of food, and many visitors found their shoes getting stuck in wet asphalt.

TODAY'S QUOTE: "All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them." -- Walt Disney

TODAY'S NUMBER: 4 -- days after the conclusion of the Potsdam Conference that the United States dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan.

TODAY'S MOON: Between last quarter moon (July 10) and new moon (July 19).

Today is the 198th day of 2012 and the 27th day of summer.

TODAY'S HISTORY: In 1790, President George Washington signed legislation designating the District of Columbia as the permanent capital of the United States.

In 1918, abdicated czar Nicholas II and his family were executed at Yekaterinburg, Russia.

In 1951, J.D. Salinger's "The Catcher in the Rye" was published.

In 1979, Saddam Hussein became the president of Iraq.

TODAY'S BIRTHDAYS: Andrea del Sarto (1486-1530), painter; Roald Amundsen (1872-1928), explorer; Barbara Stanwyck (1907-1990), actress; Ginger Rogers (1911-1995), dancer/actress; Tony Kushner (1956- ), playwright; Will Ferrell (1967- ), actor; Barry Sanders (1968- ), football player.

TODAY'S SPORTS: In 1932, Babe Didrikson singlehandedly won the Amateur Athletic Union's national women's team championship as the sole representative of Employers Casualty Co. of Dallas. She competed in eight of the 10 track and field events and set four world records over the course of the competition.

TODAY'S FACT: The world's first parking meter, installed on this day in 1935 in Oklahoma City, charged 5 cents per hour.

TODAY'S QUOTE: "When two people love each other, they don't look at each other; they look in the same direction." -- Ginger Rogers

TODAY'S NUMBER: 2 -- cities in which the U.S. Senate met formally before settling permanently in Washington, D.C., in 1800. The Senate convened in New York City from 1789 to 1790 and in Philadelphia from 1790 to 1800.

TODAY'S MOON: Between last quarter moon (July 10) and new moon (July 19).

Today is the 197th day of 2012 and the 26th day of summer.

TODAY'S HISTORY: In 1916, William Boeing incorporated Pacific Aero Products, later named the Boeing Co.

In 1971, President Richard Nixon announced his intent to visit China in search of a "normalization of relations."

In 2002, U.S. citizen John Walker Lindh pleaded guilty to having fought as a soldier with the Taliban in Afghanistan.

TODAY'S BIRTHDAYS: Rembrandt van Rijn (1606-1669), painter; Clement Clarke Moore (1779-1863), author/poet; St. Francesca Xavier Cabrini (1850-1917), founder of charitable religious order; Linda Ronstadt (1946- ), singer/songwriter; Arianna Huffington (1950- ), Internet publisher; Jesse Ventura (1951- ), wrestler/former governor; Terry O'Quinn (1952- ), actor; Forest Whitaker (1961- ), actor.

TODAY'S SPORTS: In 2007, the Philadelphia Phillies baseball team became the first professional sports franchise to record its 10,000th loss.

TODAY'S FACT: Clement Clarke Moore named his most famous poem "A Visit From St. Nicholas," but it is widely known by its first line, "'Twas the Night Before Christmas."

TODAY'S QUOTE: "What we have done is broken the ice. Now we have to test the water to see how deep it is." -- Richard Nixon

TODAY'S NUMBER: 171 -- total length (in miles) of wires found in one Boeing 747-400.

TODAY'S MOON: Between last quarter moon (July 10) and new moon (July 19).