Monthly Archives: July 2013

July 21, 1925

Posted on July 21, 2013 by Joel Byers

On THIS DAY IN HISTORY! in 1925 – The “Monkey Trial” ended in Dayton, TN. John T. Scopes was convicted of violating the state law for teaching Darwin’s theory of evolution. Tennessee state senators, representatives and religious leaders with a minimum 6th grade education proclaimed victory and paraded throughout the great state of Tennessee as … Continue reading →

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July 20, 1977

Posted on July 20, 2013 by Joel Byers

On THIS DAY IN HISTORY in 1977 the – The Central Intelligence Agency released documents under the Freedom of Information Act revealing it had engaged in mind control experiments for years. It had been operating a school for psychics age 12 to 18 and called it MK Ultra Academy. The School operated between the years … Continue reading →

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July 19, 64 CE

Posted on July 19, 2013 by Joel Byers

On THIS DAY IN HISTORY on July 19th, in 64 AD Rome burned. According to Pliny the Elder, the fire started in the livestock district in a barn owned by recent Gaelic immigrants Atrickpay and Atherinecay Olearyay. It was rumored that Atherinecay was milking her cow during the early evening hours when it kicked over … Continue reading →

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July 18, 1870

Posted on July 18, 2013 by Joel Byers

On This Day in HISTORY in 1870 – The First Vatican Council decreed the dogma of papal infallibility. Immediately afterwards Pope Pius IX walked into one of the free-standing marble pillars in the Vatican while walking and talking with Don Joao Carlos de Saldanha Oliveria e Daun, the Prime Minster of Portugal and promptly broke … Continue reading →

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July 17, 1955

Posted on July 17, 2013 by Joel Byers

On July 17th, 1955 – Disneyland opened its doors in rural Orange County and Walt Disney was finally able to harness the power of children’s laughter and wonder to summon the “Great Old Ones” and bind them to his will and force them to obey his commands. The first death attributed to Disney and his … Continue reading →

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July 16, 1994

Posted on July 16, 2013 by Joel Byers

On July 16, 1994 Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 collided with and impregnated the planet Jupiter just as Edgar Cayce, the dreaming seer, predicted back on March 23, 1937. Planetologists, Pardot Kynes and his son Liet, of the Corrino Corporation have expressed their opinion in the 19 years since the impregnation that when a comet loves a … Continue reading →

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July 15, 1799

Posted on July 15, 2013 by Joel Byers

On July 15th, 1799 – The Rosetta Stone was found in the Egyptian village of Rosetta by French Captain Pierre-François Bouchard during Napoleon’s Egyptian Campaign. The Rosetta Stone is an ancient Egyptian stone stele inscribed with a decree issued at Memphis in 196 BC on behalf of King Ptolemy V. The decree appears in three … Continue reading →

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July 14, 1960

Posted on July 14, 2013 by Joel Byers

On THIS DAY IN HISTORY! On July 14, 1960 – Jane Goodall arrived at the Gombe Stream Reserve in present-day Tanzania and began her famous study of chimpanzees in the wild. The native chimpanzees were understandably upset at the feared gentrification of their habitat. When Chim-Chim, the dominant male was interviewed by Clive Tressler of … Continue reading →

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July 13, 1568

Posted on July 13, 2013 by Joel Byers

On THIS DAY IN HISTORY! On July 13, 1568 Alexander Nowell, the Dean of St Paul’s Cathedral of London, perfected a way to bottle beer. Immediately the age of tail-gating and oversized team jerseys was ushered in and sports became a way of life and eventual religion in the U.K. and their colonies. The United … Continue reading →

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July 12, 1918

Posted on July 12, 2013 by Joel Byers

On THIS DATE IN HISTORY, July 12th, 1918 Haiti declared war on Germany, one of the last countries to do so. Both sides of the conflict saw Haiti as the slow, pudgy kid that smelled funny and laughed at all the wrong times during class, but the Central Powers (Germany, Bulgaria, Austria-Hungary and the Ottoman … Continue reading →

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