Cyrus Ingerson Scofield (August 19, 1843 – July 24, 1921)
Scofield was an American theologian, minister, and writer whose
best-selling annotated Bible popularized dispensationalism and
futurism among fundamentalist Christians.
Scofield died at his home on Long Island in 1921. He was 78.
1917 edition of the Scofield Bible.
ED DANAHUE
On July 23, 1885, just after completing his memoirs, Civil War
hero and former president Ulysses S. Grant died of throat
cancer.
The successes of Grant’s tenure while in office (March 4, 1869
– March 4, 1877) included passage of the Enforcement Act in
1870, which temporarily curtailed the political influence of the
Ku Klux Klan in the post-Civil War South, and the 1875 Civil
Rights Act, which attempted to desegregate public places
such as restrooms, “inns, public conveyances on land or
water, theaters, and other places of public amusement.”
On July 22, 1894, the world’s first-ever automobile race took
place, with 17 of 21 entrants completing the route from Paris
to Rouen, France, covering a distance of 78.3 miles.
The Concours Paris-Rouen—better known as the Paris-
Rouen Trial—paved the way not only for Le Mans, the
Indianapolis 500, and all the car races to come, but also
heralded the dawn of the motor age by showcasing the
automobile’s reliability.
The first-place prize of 5,000 francs—a value of around
$40,000 today—was shared equally between the French
manufacturers Panhard & Levassor and Les Fils de
Peugeot frères for hewing closest to the competition’s
ideals.
The real winner of the Paris-Rouen Trial, however, was
the automotive industry itself.
Robin McLaurin Williams was born in Chicago.
1993
A Comedic actor whose versatile range included "Aladdin’s"
Genie, an alien named Mork and Scottish nanny named "Mrs.
Doubtfire."
Williams received numerous accolades including an Academy
Award, two Primetime Emmy Awards, six Golden Globe Awards,
five Grammy Awards, and two Screen Actors Guild Awards. He
was awarded the Cecil B. DeMille Award in 2005.
1987
On July 21, 2011, NASA’s space shuttle program completed
its final, and 135th, mission, when the shuttle Atlantis landed
at Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
During the program’s 30-year history, its five orbiters—
Columbia, Challenger, Discovery, Atlantis and Endeavour—
carried more than 350 people into space and flew more than
500 million miles, and shuttle crews conducted important
research, serviced the Hubble Space Telescope and helped
in the construction of the International Space Station, among
other activities.
NASA retired the shuttles to focus on a deep-space exploration
program that could one day send astronauts to asteroids and
Mars.
