Okay boys and girls, here is your history lesson for today, July 24. Can you believe there is only one week left in July already?
On July 24 in. . . .
1847 Brigham Young and his Mormon followers arrive at what would become Salt Lake City, Utah. (This one is for Jake who lives there now.)
1934 - 1st ptarmigan hatched and reared in captivity, Ithaca, New York. For that to make the memorable historical events list, it must have been hard to do?
1958 - Ted Williams is fined $250 for spitting at Boston fans. (Apparently wasn't the first time he had done that.)
1969 - Apollo 11 (Armstrong, Aldrin, Collins) returns to Earth. Ironically it was on the same day in 1975 that Apollo 18 returned to Earth, but Apollo 17 was the last moon mission. Starting with Apollo 18 through 20, all missions were low orbit missions setting up the Skylab Space Station. Of interest though, I found this: "Budget cuts - NOTE: The Apollo 15 designation was re-used as Apollo 16 became 15, 17 became 16, and 18 became 17." Now if you understand that, you must work for the government.
2013 - The scientific theory of supersymmetry is challenged after experiments with the Large Hadron Collider yield an incredibly rare particle decay event. I don't pretend to be up on supersymmetry theory or what the heck the Large Hadron Collider does, but when I read something like this, I am reminded that even among the scientific community and others of the most brilliant among us, we don't always know what we think we know.
