On this day, July 20

1917 The first draft lists were published; many Pittsburghers were destined to go overseas in the 28th and 80th divisions of the U.S. Army.

1944 An attempt by a group of German officials to assassinate Adolf Hitler with a bomb failed as the explosion only wounded the Nazi leader.

1948 United States Steel raised prices of finished steel product an average of $9.34 per ton.

1977 A flash flood hit Johnstown, Cambria County, killing more than 80 people and causing $350 million worth of damage. 1991 The Christian Buhl House, a restored 1805 house once occupied by the Buhl

family, opened to the public in Zelienople. 2010 The Senate Judiciary Committee voted almost totally along party lines, 13-6, to approve Elena Kagan to be the Supreme Court’s fourth female justice.

Some items are from Stefan Lorant’s “Pittsburgh: The Story of an American City” (digital.library.pitt.edu/chronology).

— Compiled by Rick Nowlin

Today’s birthdays: Author Cormac McCarthy, 87. Actress Diana Rigg, 82. Artist Judy Chicago, 81. Singer Kim Carnes, 75. Rock musician Carlos Santana, 73. Rock musician Jay Jay French (Twisted Sister), 68. Rock musician Paul Cook (The Sex Pistols, Man Raze), 64. Actress Donna

Dixon, 63. Country singer Radney Foster,

61. Actor Frank Whaley, 57. Actor Dean Winters, 56. Rock musician Stone Gossard (Pearl Jam), 54. Actor Josh Holloway, 51. Singer Vitamin C, 51. Actress Sandra Oh,

49. Actor Omar Epps, 47. Actor Simon Rex,

46. Actress Judy Greer, 45. Supermodel Gisele Bundchen, 40. Dancer-singer-actress Julianne Hough, 32. Washington Nationals pitcher Stephen Strasburg, 32. Thought for today: “Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.”

— Albert Einstein,German-American physicist (1879-1955)