Today is Saturday, July 21, the 202nd day of 2018. There are 163 days left in the year.
Todays Highlight in History:
On July 21, 1925, the so-called Monkey Trial ended in Dayton, Tennessee, with John T. Scopes found guilty of violating state law for teaching Darwins Theory of Evolution. (The conviction was later overturned on a technicality.)
In 1930, President Herbert Hoover signed an executive order establishing the Veterans Administration (later the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs).
In 1949, the U.S. Senate ratified the North Atlantic Treaty.
In 1955, during a summit in Geneva, President Dwight D. Eisenhower presented his open skies proposal under which the U.S. and the Soviet Union would trade information on each others military facilities and allow aerial reconnaissance. (The Soviets rejected the proposal.)
In 1980, draft registration began in the United States for 19- and 20-year-old men.
In 1999, Navy divers found and recovered the bodies of John F. Kennedy Jr., his wife, Carolyn, and sister-in-law, Lauren Bessette, in the wreckage of Kennedys plane in the Atlantic Ocean off Marthas Vineyard.
