Thursday’s History Lesson! 7/21/22
Thursday’s History Lesson: July 21st is the 202nd day of the year. There are 163 days remaining until the end of the year
Today is National Junk Food Day
There are 46 days left until Labor Day
There are 102 days left until Halloween
There are 108 days left until Daylight Saving Time ends
- On this date in 1873, The first successful train robbery occurs in Adair, Iowa when Jesse James and the James-Younger Gain rob the train
- On this date in 1899, Ernest Hemingway, American novelist, short story writer and journalist, was born (d. 1961)
- On this date in 1925, John T. Scopes was found guilty of violating Tennessee state law for teaching evolution
- On this date in 1951, Robin Williams was born (d. 2014)
- On this date in 1955, The Roy Rogers Show ended
- On this date in 1969, The Beatles started work on the John Lennon song ‘Come Together’ at Abbey Road studios in London.
- On this date in 1972, George Carlin was charged with disorderly conduct and profanity after he used the “seven dirty words” during a show in Milwaukee
- On this date in 1973, Jim Croce – Bad, Bad Leroy Brown hits #1