On July 11, 1914, in his major league debut, George Herman
“Babe” Ruth pitched seven strong innings to lead the Boston
Red Sox over the Cleveland Indians (now the Cleveland
Guardians), 4-3.
George Herman "Babe" Ruth
(February 6, 1895 – August 16, 1948)
To Kill a Mockingbird is a 1960 Southern Gothic novel by
American author Harper Lee. It was the 34-year-old novelist
first novel and became an instant success after its release;
in the United States, it is widely read in high schools and
middle schools.
Nelle Harper Lee (April 28, 1926 – February 19, 2016)
To Kill a Mockingbird won the Pulitzer Prize a year after its
release, and it has become a classic of modern American
literature.
Honda introduces its first Civic, a new breed of subcompact,
fuel-saving car. It arrives just in time for the energy crisis of
1973, which brought higher gas prices, long lines and
occasional fistfights at the pump.
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 the Butler Act, a Tennessee state law.
The law, passed in March, made it a misdemeanor punishable
by fine to “teach any theory that denies the story of the Divine
Creation of man as taught in the Bible, and to teach instead
that man has descended from a lower order of animals.”
The trial became a national spectacle, with prominent figures
like Clarence Darrow defending Scopes and William Jennings
Bryan assisting the prosecution.
John Thomas Scopes(1900 – 1970) the teacher
on trial for teaching evolution.
Defense attorney Clarence Darrow, left, and
prosecutor William Jennings Bryan speak
with each other during the trial.
(FOX NEWS) – A team of researchers recently discovered a
historic bow that was blown off a World War II U.S. Navy
ship during a historic battle that took place nearly 83 years
ago.
The long-lost bow — which was torn off the USS New Orleans
in the Battle of Tassafaronga in November 1942 — was found
around 2,200 feet underwater in the Solomon Islands’ Iron
Bottom Sound, according to a news release from the Ocean
Exploration Trust.
The bow of USS New Orleans sits on the seafloor of Iron
Bottom Sound in the Solomon Islands.
The structure and stamps on the base of the anchor helped researchers confirm the identity of the bow.
