The king of fast-food fried chicken, KFC’s "Colonel Harland Sanders" sight-seeing during his trip to Egypt in the 1970s.
Archive for July 8th, 2023
FUNKY FASHION FOR MEN IN THE 1970s
Menswear in the J.C. Penney catalog.
James Cash Penney Jr.
(September 16, 1875 – February 12, 1971)
James Penny Jr. was a businessman and
entrepreneur who founded the JCPenney
stores in 1902.
J. C. Penney mother store in Kemmerer, Wyoming.
BOB’S BIG BOY STARTED OUT SMALL
Bob Wian (below) was the founder of the Big Boy restaurant
chain which began as a 10-stool hamburger stand in Glendale,
California, opening in 1936 with an investment of $300
raised from the sale of his car.
Robert C. Wian (June 15, 1914 – March 31, 1992)
FIRST PUBLIC READING OF U.S. DOCUMENT
On July 8, 1776, a 2,000-pound copper-and-tin bell now
known as the “Liberty Bell” rang out from the tower of
the Pennsylvania State House (now Independence Hall)
in Philadelphia, summoning citizens to the first public
reading of the Declaration of Independence. Four days
earlier, the historic document had been adopted by
delegates to the Continental Congress, but the bell did
not ring to announce the issuing of the document until
the Declaration of Independence returned from the
printer on July 8.
PERRY ARRIVED IN JAPAN ON THIS DAY
Commodore Matthew Calbraith Perry, representing the U.S.
government, sailed into Tokyo Bay, Japan, with a squadron
of four vessels on this day in 1853. For a time, Japanese
officials refused to speak with Perry, but under threat of
attack by the superior American ships they accepted letters
from President Millard Fillmore, making the United States
the first Western nation to establish relations with Japan
since it had been declared closed to foreigners two
centuries before.
Matthew Calbraith Perry
(April 10, 1794 – March 4, 1858)
Millard Fillmore
(January 7, 1800 – March 8, 1874)
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