The Almanac
Today is Friday, July 10, the 191st day of 2015 with 174 to follow. The
moon is waning. Morning stars are Mars, Mercury, Neptune and Uranus.
Evening stars are Jupiter, Saturn and Venus. Those born on this date
are under the sign of Cancer. They include Protestant theologian John
Calvin in 1509; British judge William Blackstone in 1723; painter James
Whistler in 1834; German brewer Adolphus Busch in 1839; inventor Nikola
Tesla in 1856; French novelist Marcel Proust in 1871; educator Mary
McLeod Bethune in 1875; TV news anchor/commentator David Brinkley in
1920; social activist Eunice Kennedy Shriver in 1921; boxer Jake
LaMotta in 1921 (age 94); author Jean Kerr in 1922; actor Fred Gwynne
in 1926; former New York City Mayor David Dinkins in 1927 (age 88);
musician Ronnie James Dio in 1942; tennis star Arthur Ashe in 1943;
actor Ron Glass in 1945 (age 70); actor Sue Lyon in 1946 (age 69);
folksinger Arlo Guthrie in 1947 (age 68); baseball Hall of Fame member
Andre Dawson in 1954 (age 61); actor Jessica Simpson in 1980 (age 35).
On this date in history: In 1925, the so-called Monkey Trial, in which
John Scopes was accused of teaching evolution in school, a violation of
state law, began in Dayton, Tenn., featuring a classic confrontation
between William Jennings Bryan, the three-time presidential candidate
and fundamentalist hero, and legendary defense attorney Clarence
Darrow. In 1962, the pioneer telecommunications satellite Telstar began
relaying TV pictures between the United States and Europe. In 1985,
Coca-Cola, besieged by consumers dissatisfied with the new Coke
introduced in April, dusted off the old formula and dubbed it Coke
Classic. In 1989, Mel Blanc, the voice of Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck and
countless other Warner Bros. cartoon characters and radio and TV comic
creations, died from complications of heart disease. He was 81. In
1991, Boris Yeltsin was inaugurated as the first freely elected
president of the Russian republic. In 1992, former Panamanian dictator
Manuel Noriega was sentenced to 40 years in prison for cocaine
racketeering. In 1999, the U.S. team won the Women's World Cup in
soccer, defeating China in the final on penalty kicks. In 2009, General
Motors completed its race through bankruptcy with the signing of a
contract with the U.S. government, which got 61 percent of the company.
The recovery plan included considerable shrinkage, including the
closing of factories and layoffs of 21,000 union workers. In 2011,
media mogul Rupert Murdoch's News of the World, Britain's best-selling
weekly newspaper, abruptly ceased publication amid allegations that its
reporters and investigators had hacked into telephones of royalty,
politicians, celebrities, homicide victims, families of fallen soldiers
and others to illegally gain material for stories. In 2012, An Israeli
court acquitted former Prime Minister Ehud Olmert of corruption but
found him guilty of breach of trust. The charges stemmed from a period
before he was PM. In 2014, Hamas, responding to Israeli airstrikes
against Palestinian militants in Gaza, released a video saying it would
carry out terrorist attacks in Israel. The narrator said, Wait for
suicide attacks on every bus, cafe and street. A thought for the day:
True champions aren't always the ones that win, but those with the most
guts. -- Mia Hamm .
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