by Matilda Cruz | Jul 23, 2022 | History
On July 23, 1961, Grace Bumbry, a 24-year-old African American soprano from St. Louis, Missouri, displayed remarkable courage as she became the center of controversy in West Germany. She was the first black singer to perform at the Bayreuth Opera Festival, a historic...
by Sarah Zappitelli | Jul 22, 2022 | History
On Friday, July 22, 2011, Norway experienced a set of twin terrorist attacks. Anders Breivik, a 32-year-old Norwegian man, drove a van packed with a homemade fertilizer bomb and parked it in front of a government block in Oslo. A few minutes later, the bomb...
by Matilda Cruz | Jul 21, 2022 | History
On July 21, 1925, John T. Scopes was found guilty of teaching evolution in the “Scopes Monkey Trial” in Dayton, Tennessee, and he was subsequently fined $100 plus additional costs. Dayton’s “Monkey Trial” involved a lawsuit filed by the State...
by Matilda Cruz | Jul 20, 2022 | History
On July 20, 1881, in the aftermath of Lieutenant Colonel Custer’s defeat at Little Bighorn, Sioux Chief Sitting Bull, a symbol of resilience, surrendered to U.S. troops after being promised amnesty for himself and his people. The Sioux uprising of 1876 had...
by Matilda Cruz | Jul 19, 2022 | History
On July 19, 1843, the city of Bristol awoke to a rainy day. Still, the excitement that permeated the air could be felt by all the celebrities, onlookers and travelers gathering at the Great Western Dockyard. Here, Prince Albert would soon oversee the launch of the...
