Some very interesting history today. We all breathed a sigh of relief when Apollo 11 returned! 1925 Scopes guilty of teaching evolution in a Tn HS, fined $100 & costs 1937 Alabama drops charges against 5 blacks accused of rape in Scottsboro 1948 Soviets blockades Berlin from the west 1952 Pres Truman settles 53-day steel strike 1959 VP Nixon argued with Khrushchev, known as Kitchen Debate 1961 Beginning of a trend, a US commercial plane is hijacked to Cuba 1963 Sonny Liston KOs Floyd Patterson to retain heavyweight championship 1965 Bob Dylan release Like a Rolling Stone 1969 Apollo 11 returns to Earth
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