Updated July 20, 2012, 2:28 pm
On July 21, 1925, the ”monkey trial” ended in Dayton, Tenn., with John T. Scopes convicted of violating state law for teaching Darwin’s theory of evolution. (The conviction was later overturned.)
On July 21, 1899, Ernest Hemingway, the American novelist and short story writer, was born. Following his death on July 2, 1961, his obituary appeared in The Times.
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1831 Belgium became independent as Leopold I was proclaimed King of the Belgians. 1861 The first Battle of Bull Run was fought at Manassas, Va., during the Civil War, resulting in a Confederate victory. 1899 Author Ernest Hemingway was born in Oak Park, Ill. 1944 The Democratic National Convention in Chicago nominated Sen. Harry S. Truman to be vice president. 1949 The U.S. Senate ratified the North Atlantic Treaty. 1954 France surrendered North Vietnam to the Communists. 1961 Capt. Virgil “Gus” Grissom became the second American to rocket into a sub-orbital pattern around the Earth, flying on the Liberty Bell 7. 1969 Apollo 11 astronauts Neil Armstrong and Edwin “Buzz” Aldrin blasted off from the moon aboard the lunar module. 1988 Massachusetts Gov. Michael Dukakis accepted the Democratic presidential nomination at the party’s convention in Atlanta. 1998 Astronaut Alan Shepard died at age 74. 2002 Telecommunications giant WorldCom Inc. filed for bankruptcy protection after disclosing it had inflated profits by nearly $4 billion through deceptive accounting. 2007 “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows,” the final volume in the book series by J.K. Rowling, went on sale. 2008 Former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic, one of the world’s top war crimes fugitives, was arrested in a Belgrade suburb by Serbian security forces. 2010 President Barack Obama signed into law the most sweeping overhaul of U.S. lending and high finance rules since the 1930s. 2011 The space shuttle program came to an end after 30 years as Atlantis landed at Cape Canaveral, Fla.. Current Birthdays
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U.S. Rep. James Clyburn, D-S.C., turns 71 years old today.
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New York Yankees pitcher C.C. Sabathia turns 32 years old today.
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1922 Kay Starr, Singer, turns 90 1926 Norman Jewison, Director (“Moonstruck”), turns 86 1938 Janet Reno, Former attorney general, turns 74 1939 John Negroponte, Former national intelligence director, turns 73 1943 Edward Herrmann, Actor, turns 69 1948 Yusuf Islam (formerly Cat Stevens), Singer, songwriter, turns 64 1948 Garry Trudeau, Cartoonist (“Doonesbury”), turns 64 1951 Robin Williams, Actor, comedian, turns 61 1953 Eric Bazilian, Rock musician (The Hooters), turns 59 1955 Dan Malloy, Governor of Connecticut, turns 57 1957 Jon Lovitz, Actor, comedian (“Saturday Night Live”), turns 55 1968 Brandi Chastain, Soccer player, turns 44 1978 Sprague Grayden, Actress, turns 34 1978 Josh Hartnett, Actor, turns 34 1981 Blake Lewis, Singer (“American Idol”), turns 31 1983 Kellen Winslow, Football player, turns 29 1985 Vanessa Lengies, Actress (“American Dreams”), turns 27
Historic Birthdays
Ernest Hemingway 7/21/1899 – 7/2/1961 American Nobel Prize-winning (1954) novelist and short story writer.Go to obituary »
79 Saint Philip Neri 7/21/1515 – 5/26/1595
Italian priest and mystic87 John Weaver 7/21/1673 – 9/24/1760
English dancer73 Georg Brandt 7/21/1694 – 4/29/1768
Swedish chemist82 Paul Julius Reuter 7/21/1816 – 2/25/1899
German-born English founder of Reuters news agency80 Sir John Gilbert 7/21/1817 – 10/5/1897
English painter and illustrator57 Louise Blanchard Bethune 7/21/1856 – 12/18/1913
American architect66 Lovis Corinth 7/21/1858 – 7/12/1925
Russian-born German Impressionist painter59 Jacques Feyder 7/21/1888 – 5/25/1948
French film director32 Hart Crane 7/21/1899 – 4/27/1932
American poet69 Marshall McLuhan 7/21/1911 – 12/31/1980
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