On This Day In History (July 21st)

[Bill Schenley]

Philip "The Fair" IV's secret commission results in the
arrest and confiscation of all the goods and money of
every Jew in France (1306).

http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_IV_of_France

The Inquisition was established in Rome (1542). It must
have been the Christian thing to do.

http://es.rice.edu/ES/humsoc/Galileo/Student_Work/Trial96/loftis/proce
dure.html

http://es.rice.edu/ES/humsoc/Galileo/Things/inquisition.html

http://www.dimensional.com/~randl/tinq.htm

An Inquisition was created for the Portuguese navy (1571).
God moves in mysterious ways ... and He's no pacifist.

http://www.emory.edu/ENGLISH/Bahri/Jews.html

Robert Burns, Scottish poet, died (1796).

http://www.robertburns.org/

http://www.electricscotland.com/burns/

Fleeing Black Hawk (Sauk/Fox tribes) were overtaken by
General J.D. Henry; sixty-eight Indians were killed (1832).

http://www.usgennet.org/usa/mo/county/stlouis/native/clark-blackhawkwa
r.htm

Jesse James robs his first train (1873). It was also the first
train robbery west of the Mississippi River.

http://www.simpson.edu/~RITS/histories/jjstory/JJ.html

Twenty striking railroad workers were killed by state troopers
in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (1887).

Hart Crane, modernist and experimental poet, was born (1899).

http://www.lit.kobe-u.ac.jp/~hishika/crane.htm

Ernest Hemingway, author, was born (1899). Hemingway was
awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1954.

The so-called "Monkey Trial" ended in Dayton, Tennessee
(1925). John T. Scopes was convicted of violating state law
for teaching Darwin's theory of evolution. The conviction
was later overturned.

http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/big/0721.html#articl
e

"Stormy Weather" premieres in New York City with Lena
Horne, Bill "Bo Jangles" Robinson, Fats Waller and Cab
Calloway (1943).

Arshile Gorky, abstract expressionist, died (1948).

http://artscenecal.com/ArticlesFile/Archive/Articles1997/Articles0297/
AGorky.html

Geneva Accords signed, freeing Vietnam from French
colonial rule (1954). One of France's allies would soon
take their place.

Billboard called Elvis Presley "the most controversial
entertainer since Liberace" (1956). Billboard also noted: Ed
Sullivan, who said Presley would never appear on his show,
just signed him for three appearances.

François Mayoux, French pacifist, antimilitarist and anarchist,
died (1967). Mayoux was the son of Jehan Mayhoux and the
companion of Marie Mayoux.

http://www.eskimo.com/~recall/bleed/sinners/MayouxMarie.htm

Jimmy Foxx, baseball HoFer, died (1967).

http://www.baseball-reference.com/f/foxxji01.shtml

At 2:56:15 a.m., Mr. Gorsky's dream came true (1969). That
"kid next door" ... walked on the moon.

International Telephone and Telegraph Corporation (ITT),
facing a major antitrust action as the result of its takeover of
the Hartford Fire Insurance Company, allegedly pledged
$400,000 to defray costs of the 1972 Republican Convention
(1971).

http://www-sul.stanford.edu/depts/hasrg/german/exhibit/GDRposters/ITT.
html

George Carlin was charged with disorderly conduct and
profanity after performing his famous "Seven Words"
routine at Summerfest in Milwaukee, Wisconsin (1972).

http://georgecarlin.com/

Jim Fixx, runner/author, died (1984).

Navy divers found the bodies of John F. Kennedy Jr., his
wife, Carolyn, and sister-in-law, Lauren Bessette, in the
wreckage of Kennedy's plane in the Atlantic Ocean, off
Martha's Vineyard (1999).