Today is Thursday, July 21, the 202nd day of 2011. There are 163 days left in the year.
Today’s Highlight:
On July 21, 1861, during the Civil War, the first Battle of Bull Run was fought at Manassas, Va., resulting in a Confederate victory.
On this date:
In 1899, author Ernest Hemingway was born in Oak Park, Ill.; poet Hart Crane was born in Garrettsville, Ohio.
In 1911, Canadian communications theorist Marshall McLuhan, who coined such expressions as “The medium is the message,” was born in Edmonton.
In 1925, the so-called “Monkey Trial” ended in Dayton, Tenn., with John Scopes convicted of violating state law for teaching Darwin’s Theory of Evolution. (The conviction was later overturned on a technicality.)
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