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1950s Cars 1950 Chrysler Town and Country 1950 GMC Pickup 1951 Hudson Hornet 1953 Buick Skylark 1954 Chevrolet Corvette 1955 Pontiac Wagon 1956 Ford Fairlane Sunliner 1956 Studebaker Golden Hawk 1957 Cadillac ElDorado 1957 Chevrolet Bel Air 1957 Ford Thunderbird 1958 Cadillac El Dorado 1958 Edsel Citation 1959 Cadillac El Dorado 1959 Ford Galaxie

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Today in History (July 21) Presented by WearYourHeroes.com 1588 English fleet defeats Spanish armada. 1669 John Locke's Constitution of English colony Carolina approved. 1846 Mormons found first English settlement in California (San Joaquin Valley) . 1861 It isn't often that people are invited to a picnic to watch a war; but that's what happened on this day in 1861. For those of you who weren't invited or just don't remember, it was the first major battle of the Civil War between the North and the South. U.S. Federal troops under the leadership of Major General Irwin McDowell attacked Confederate troops led by General Beauregard. It was the Battle of Bull Run Creek at Manassas Junction, Virginia. The Confederates, with the help of General E. Kirby Smith and General Thomas 'Stonewall' Jackson, held back the Union troops like a stone wall. Many folks, dressed in their Sunday best, came to watch and picnic as 60,000 men fought for over ten hours. When a shell destroyed a wagon blocking the main road of retreat, panic sent Union troops and picnickers scurrying back to Washington D.C. 1873 The first train robbery in America was pulled off by Jesse James and his gang. They took $3,000 from the Rock Island Express at Adair, Iowa. 1877 U.S. Army breaks railroad strike. 1880 Compressed air accident kills 20 workers on Hudson River tunnel, New York. 1898 Spain cedes Guam to U.S. 1904 Camille Jenatzy sets world auto speed record at 65.79 MPH. 1904 After 13 years, the 4,607-mile Trans-Siberian railway is completed. 1919 Anthony Fokker establishes airplane factory at Hamburg and Amsterdam. 1919 Dirigible crashes through bank skylight killing 13 (Chicago, Illinois. 1925 Monkey Trial ends-John Scopes found guilty of teaching Darwinism. 1928 First woman to win an Olympic gold medal - Halina Knonpacka of Poland. 1930 U.S. Veterans Administration forms. 1931 Reno race track, becomes first in U.S. to use daily double wagering. 1941 200 Jewish Torahs are burned in Ukraine. 1941 Himmler orders building of Majdanek concentration camp. 1944 British premier Winston Churchill flies to France, meets Montgomery. 1944 General Koiso becomes premier of Japan. 1944 U.S. forces land on Guam to get rid of Japanese invaders. 1944 Von Kluge warns Hitler of impending collapse of front in Normandy. 1949 Senate ratifies North Atlantic Treaty by a vote of 82-13 (NATO). 1951 Dalai Lama returns to Tibet. 1955 First sub powered by liquid metal cooled reactor launched-Seawolf. 1957 39th PGA Championship: Lionel Hebert wins at Miami Valley Golf Club Dayton, Ohio. 1959 First nuclear powered merchant ship, NS Savannah, christened, Camden, New Jersey. 1959 Red Sox are last team to use a black player (Pumpsie Green). 1960 Francis Chichester arrives in New York aboard Gypsy Moth II, setting record of 40 days for a solo Atlantic crossing. 1963 45th PGA Championship: Jack Nicklaus shoots a 279 to win at Dallas AC. 1968 Arnold Palmer became the first golfer to make a million dollars in career earnings after he tied for second place at the PGA Championship. Palmer accomplished the feat in just 13 years and 2 months as a professional golfer. He won 52 golf tournaments during that period. 1968 Jan Janssen wins Tour de France: first Dutchman. 1968 50th PGA Championship: Julius Boros shoots a 281 to win at Pecan Valley, Texas. 1969 Neil Armstrong steps on Moon at 2:56:15 AM, GMT. 1970 Libya orders confiscation of all Jewish property. 1972 Bloody Friday: 22 IRA-bombs explode in Belfast. 1974 House Judiciary approves two Articles of Impeachment against President Nixon. 1974 Eddy Merckx wins his 5th Tour de France. 1979 108th British Golf Open: Seve Ballesteros shoots a 283 to win at Royal Lytham. 1980 Jean-Claude Droyer climbs Eiffel Tower in 2 hours 18 minutes. 1984 First documented case of a robot killing a human in U.S. 1985 Bernard Hinault wins his 5th and last Tour de France. 1985 114th British Golf Open: Sandy Lyle shoots a 282 to win at Royal St. George. 1989 Former president Ronald Reagan was inducted into the Cowboy Hall of Fame in recognition of his role as George Armstrong Custer in "The Santa Fe Trail" (1940) and as host of TV's "Death Valley Days" (1965-1966). 1989 Greg LeMond wins Tour de France in fastest time. 1990 Some 250,000 people celebrated at the site where the Berlin Wall once stood in East Berlin. Included in the benefit concert was an all-star cast performing Pink Floyds "The Wall." Artists who performed: The Band, The Scorpions, Ute Lemper, Thomas Dolby, Sinead O'Connor, Joni Mitchel, James Galway, Brian Adams, Jerry Hall, Van Morrison, Marianne Faithfull, Albert Finney. Pink Floyd founder Roger Waters (organizer of the concert) performed together with his group The Bleeding Heart Band. Organizing this show was certainly a lot of hard work, Waters said, but it was excellent to work with Bryan Adams, Van Morrison, Cyndi Lauper and all the others. 1991 Ferguson Jenkins, Gaylord Perry, Rod Carew, Tony Lazzeri, and Bill Veeck are elected into the Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, New York. 1991 120th British Golf Open: Ian Baker-Finch shoots 272 to win at Royal Birkdale. 1996 125th British Golf Open: Tom Lehman shoots a 271 to win at Royal Lytham. 2008 Radovan Karadzic arrested on war crimes after a 12 year manhunt. 2010 Sadie Hoekstra does 29,387 one-legged jumping jacks in 48 minutes. 2010 WearYourHeroes.com continues reign as the most heroic new company in the world. The American's Creed "I believe in the United States of America as a Government of the people by the people, for the people, whose just powers are derived from the consent of the governed; a democracy in a Republic; a sovereign Nation of many sovereign States; a perfect Union, one and inseparable; established upon those principals of freedom, equality, justice, and humanity for which American patriots sacrificed their lives and fortunes. "I therefore believe it is my duty to my Country to love it; to support its Constitution; to obey its laws; to respect its flag, and to defend it against all enemies." "Good people sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf." --George Orwell WearYourHeroes.com Extra Credit Picture/Portrait of the Day #26 Who is pictured to the left? This is picture #26 and be sure to include the #26 in your email. Email Joshua.Hoekstra@district196.org with your answers to get half of an extra credit point. WearYourHeroes.com Extra Credit Question of the Day #26. Email Joshua.Hoekstra@district196.orgwith your guess as to what your answer is to get a half extra credit point. Include the Question 26 in your response. (Question #26)What did Chesty Puller say the first time he saw a flame thrower? WearYourHeroes.com Quote of the Day All men are timid on entering any fight. Whether it is the first or the last fight, all of us are timid. Cowards are those who let their timidity get the better of their manhood. ~ General George Patton Be Not Afraid You shall cross the barren desert, but you shall not die of thirst. You shall wander far in safety though you do not know the way. You shall speak your words in foreign lands and all will understand. You shall see the face of God and live. Be not afraid. I go before you always; Come follow me, and I will give you rest. FROM A PRAYER CARD FOUND ON A BASE IN ANBAR PROVINCE, IRAQ One Last Time The night before the burial of her husband's body, Katherine Cathey refused to leave the casket, asking to sleep next to his body for the last time. The Marines made a bed for her, tucking in the sheets below the flag. Before she fell asleep, she opened her laptop computer and played songs that reminded her of 'Cat,' and one of the Marines asked if she wanted them to continue standing watch as she slept. 'I think it would be kind of nice if you kept doing it,' she said. 'I think that's what he would have wanted.'