DAY IN HISTORY

Wednesday, July 15, 2020

Today is the 197th day of 2020 and the 26th day of summer.

TODAY’S HISTORY: In 1799, French Lieutenant Pierre-francois Bouchard found the Rosetta Stone in Rosetta, Egypt.

In 1903, Ford Motor Co. took its first order, a Model A automobile for a dentist in Chicago, Illinois.

In 1971, President Richard Nixon announced his intent to visit China in search of a “normalization of relations.”

In 2002, “American Taliban” John Walker Lindh pleaded guilty to having fought as a soldier with the Taliban in Afghanistan.

In 2006, the social media platform Twitter was launched.

TODAY’S BIRTHDAYS: Rembrandt van Rijn (1606-1669), painter; Clement Clarke Moore (17791863), author/poet; St. Frances Xavier Cabrini (1850-1917), founder of charitable religious order; Clive Cussler (1931-2020), author;

Vivian Malone Jones (1942-2005), civil rights activist; Linda Ronstadt (1946- ), singersongwriter; Arianna Huffington (1950- ), internet publisher; Jesse Ventura (1951- ), wrestler/former governor; Forest Whitaker (1961), actor; Adam Savage (1967- ), designer/tv personality; Damian Lillard (1990- ), basketball player.

TODAY’S FACT: The Nintendo Entertainment System debuted in Japan on this day in 1983.

TODAY’S SPORTS: In 2007, the Philadelphia

Phillies baseball team became the first professional sports franchise to record its 10,000th loss.

TODAY’S QUOTE: “I went through two schools of acting, but I learned more about acting from meditating and from my martial arts teacher.” — Forest Whitaker

TODAY’S NUMBER: $850 — price of the first automobile sold by Ford Motor Co.

TODAY’S MOON:

Between last quarter moon (July 12) and new moon (July 20).