On This Day: Thursday July 21, 2005 This is the 202nd day of the year, with 163 days remaining in 2005.
Fact of the Day: Hemingway
American short-story writer and novelist Ernest Hemingway never went to college, was repeatedly rejected for military service because of a bad eye, but got into World War I as an ambulance driver. He received the Pulitzer Prize in fiction for The Old Man and the Sea (1952), a short heroic novel about an old Cuban fisherman who, after an extended struggle, hooks and boats a giant marlin only to have it eaten by voracious sharks during the long voyage home. This book played a role in gaining for Hemingway the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1954, after which he wrote very little. He shot himself on July 2, 1961, the victim of depression.
Holidays Feast day of St. Laurence of Brindisi, St. Victor of Marseilles, St. Arbogastes, and St. Praxedes.
Belgium: National Day.
Guam: Liberation Day.
Events 1733 - John Winthrop was granted the first honorary Doctor of Law degree in the U.S., by Harvard College.
1798 - The Battle of the Pyramids took place, in which Napoleon, soon after his invasion of Egypt, defeated an army of some 60,000 Mamelukes.
1831 - Belgium became independent as Leopold I was proclaimed king.
1861 - The first Battle of Bull Run was fought at Manassas, Virginia -- a Confederate victory.
1925 - John T. Scopes was convicted of violating state law for teaching Darwin's Theory of Evolution
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