Time Will Tell: July 22nd

Sunday, July 22, 2012

July 22nd

July 22 is the 204th day of the year. There are 162 days remaining until the end of the year.

1376 The Pied Piper comes to Hamelin (Hameln), a town in Lower Saxony, Germany, and leads the children out of town.

1916 In San Francisco, California, a bomb explodes on Market Street during a Preparedness Day parade killing 10 and injuring 40. Persons of interest were questioned about their whereabouts.

1967 Jimi Hendrix quits as opening act of the Monkees' tour and order is restored to the space-time continuum

1969 Aretha Franklin gets no r-e-s-p-e-c-t and is arrested for disturbing peace in Detroit because Church’s Fried Chicken was out of spicy wings

1976 "Let My People Come" opens at Morosco Theater New York City for 106 performances until the star can hold out no longer and wipes out the first 6 rows

1991 Jeffrey Dahmer confesses to blowing (off) 17 males in 1978 and snacking on a few

1992 Colombia drug baron Pablo Escobar escapes prison to avoid extradition to the US and the prospect of forcible rape of his juicy booty

1993 Great Flood of 1993: Levees near Kaskaskia, Illinois rupture, forcing the entire town to evacuate by barges operated by the Army Corps of Engineers. There’s news of a guy breaching one of the levees so he could spend more time with his mistress on the Illinois side of the river while his wife was on the Missouri side. Is this a great country, or what?

1994 O. J. Simpson pleads "Absolutely 100% Not Guilty" of murder. He is lying, of course.

1997 Fire breaks out at Palais de Chaillot in Paris, but a suspect is quickly apprehended

2011 Norway experiences twin terror attacks, the first being a bomb blast which targeted government buildings in central Oslo, the second being a massacre at a youth camp on the island of Utøya.