Millard Fillmore (January 7, 1800 – March 8, 1874)
On July 10, 1850, Vice President Millard Fillmore is sworn in
as the 13th president of the United States. President Zachary
Taylor had died the day before, five days after falling ill with
a severe intestinal ailment on the Fourth of July.
Zachary Taylor (November 24, 1784 – July 9, 1850)
Tom Selleck without his famous mustache as ‘Jed Andrews’
on the soap opera "The Young and the Restless" (1974-75).
Thomas(Tom) William Selleck is 78 years old.
Clarence Darrow, left, and William Jennings Bryan at the
Scopes trial in 1925. (AP)
July 10, 1925: In Dayton, Tennessee, the so-called Scopes
Monkey Trial began with John Thomas Scopes, a young
high school science teacher, accused of teaching evolution
in violation of a Tennessee state law.
William Jennings Bryan, left, and Judge John Raulston.
Schoolteacher John Thomas Scopes, 24, of Dayton,
Tenn., stands before Judge Raulston just before he
was found guilty of teaching evolution and fined
$100 on July 21, 1925, at the end of the Scopes
Monkey Trial held at the Rhea County Courthouse
in Dayton.
The jury reads a guilty verdict against John Scopes.
Sylvan Nathan Goldman (11-15-1898 – 11-25-1984)
The first shopping cart was introduced on June 4, 1937, the
invention of Sylvan Goldman, (above) owner of the Humpty
Dumpty supermarket chain in Oklahoma.
