Watkins Glen Summer Jam
It was at the Watkins Glen Raceway in New York that the concert Summer Jam at Watkins Glen took place on July 28, 1973. It was attended by many who hadn’t attended the Woodstock concert and they weren’t going to miss this one. Even though there were only 150,000 tickets sold for the event, ticket [...]
Happy Birthday Gracie
Grace Ethel Cecile Rosalie Allen, of the comic team Burns and Allen was born on July 26 in San Francisco. Her death record shows 1902 as does her grave marker as the year of her birth. This date was given by her husband George Burns, who had said he was never sure in what year [...]
Dead at 27
Amy Winehouse was discovered dead. Even though at the time of this writing (July 24, 2011) the cause of death has not been determined, it is fair to conclude with her history of drug and alcohol abuse that it may have been a contributing cause. Amy Winehouse was 27. The age of 27 and the [...]
The Lost Roanoke Colony
Jamestown, Virginia, which was established in 1607, was not the first English colony in America, but was the first successful one. In the later part of the 16th century, twice colonies were started in what is now Northern North Carolina. Sir Walter Raleigh had received a charter to colonize North America with 10 years to [...]
Mercury Seven
Freedom 7 Launched May 8, 1963 with Alan Shepard aboard. The flight put the first man in space. It lasted 15 minutes 28 seconds. The flight did not orbit the earth. Liberty Bell 7 Launched July 21, 1961 with Virgil (Gus) Grissom aboard. Second flight into space, but it too was a non-orbital flight lasting [...]
Top Albums of the 1970s
Tow years ago we posted the Top 10 Albums that were released in the 1970s (see below). There has been a few changes in the two years. Here is the current list. 10 – Beatles – 1962-1966 (The Red Album) (See all British Invasion Rock Music CDs) (21) 9 – Elton John – Elton John [...]
Adolf Hitler’s Mein Kampf
On July 18, 1925 the first volume of Adolf Hitler’s Mein Kampf was published. The work is a combination autobiography and political ideas of the young Hitler. It was originally titled Four Years of Struggle against Lies Stupidity and Cowardice. The publisher, Secker and Warburg, retitled the work Mein Kampf or My Struggle. This first [...]
Big Trial in the Summer of ’25
It was the summer of 1925 and in Dayton, Tennessee a trial took place that helped shaped the American culture. The trial lasted 11 days and it was on July 10 of that year that the State of Tennessee began its case against school teacher John Scopes for teaching Darwin’s Theory of Evolution to his [...]
Stephen King’s – The Stand
In 1978 Doubleday Books publishes Stephen Kings fourth novel The Stand. King believes that this fulfills a contract obligation and believes it would be his last at the publishing house. Later Doubleday would publish Pet Sematary. Synopsis: After an accident happens at a miltary biological weapon facility a guard escapes infected with adeadly virus known [...]
The First Game
Until 1933 the only time that Baseball’s National League faced the American League was in the World Series. That changed on July 6, 1933, at Chicago’s Comiskey Park when players from the two leagues came together to play the first All-Star Game. This first All-Star Game was held as part of the 1933 World’s Fair [...]
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