1891: Carnegie Hall, "one of the most beautiful music halls in the world," opens at the corner of 57th and 7th Avenue in New York City.
1925: Schoolteacher John T. Scopes is charged in Tennessee with violating a state law that prohibited teaching the theory of evolution. (Scopes was found guilty, but his conviction was later set aside.)
1961: Astronaut Alan B. Shepard Jr. becomes America's first space traveler as he made a 15-minute suborbital flight in a capsule launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida.
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Today's Birthdays:
Danish philosopher Soren Kierkegaard (1813-1855)
Founder of communism Karl Marx (1818-1883)
U.S. baseball player Charles Bender (1883-1954)
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Something to Think About:
"Character and personal force are the only investments that are worth anything." ~ Walt Whitman
