HIstory and my Birthday

RedSoxpawn

Jul 21, 2009, 4:37 AM | 3

Today July 21st is my 18th birthday and this is a list of some of the things that has happened on my birthday

1925: Monkey Trial ends

1970: Aswan High Dam completed

2005: Bombers attempt to attack London transit system

1775: Battle of Brewster Island

1904: Rigolly breaks 100mph barrier

1987: Ferrari unveils F40

1861: First Battle of Bull Run

1955: Eisenhower presents his "Open Skies" plan

1925: The "Trial of the Century" draws national attention

365: Tsunami hits Alexandria, Egypt

1955: Roy Rogers Show ends

1967: Basil Rathbone dies

1899: Hart Crane is born in Garrettsville, Ohio

1865: Wild Bill Hickok fights first western showdown

1862: Former President Martin Van Buren lapses into a coma

1959: Pumpsie Green becomes first African American to play for Red Sox

1965: Johnson considers the options

1911: David Lloyd George delivers Mansion House speech

1944: Hitler to Germany: "I'm still alive."

And last but not least Buzz Aldrin and Neil Armstrong lifted off the moon in LM-5 "Eagle" leaving an inscription on a plaque that reads as "HERE MEN FROM THE PLANET EARTH FIRST SET FOOT UPON THE MOON JULY 1969 A.D. WE CAME IN PEACE FOR ALL MANKIND."