Today in History, July 15

Drivers were practicing for the London Grand Prix at the Crystal Palace track in London, on July 15, 1937. B Bira ,Prince Birabongse of Siam, at practice. Crystal Palace tower is seen in background. (AP Photo)

Attorney William Jennings Bryan sits behind the microphone, in white shirt with rolled-up sleeves, during a radio broadcast of the landmark þÄúMonkey TrialþÄù of John Thomas Scopes in Dayton, Tenn., July 15, 1925. The controversial trial between religion and state determined how evolution would be taught in schools. Scopes, a high school biology teacher, was found guilty of teaching evolution and fined. (AP PHOTO)

An up to date Sappho, Hollywood film star Tina Louise, makes like a trumpet blower on the set of 'Sappho, Venus of Lesbos' in Rome, Italy, July 15, 1960. Actors in the parts of ancient soldiers play up to the off-camera bit. Tina plays the role of Sappho, the beautiful Greek poetess. (AP Photo)

An effort by San Francisco Women for Peace to call attention to their aims resulted in the releasing of large quantities of balloons in the Height Street District with the slogan ?Test Ban Now? on each one in San Francisco on July 15, 1963. A package they addressed to Moscow which contains a thousand paper cranes similar to those made by Japanese children injured by the A-bomb and which they felt was a good omen for recovery. (AP Photo)

This little pig will not go to market. As you can plainly see, this little day-old piggy has no hams. Born on the farm of Dr. F.C. Cooke, Elizabeth City, N.C., dentist, as one of a litter of 11, the animal is apparently normal in every other way, July 15, 1949. Dr. Cooke says the pig eats well and is about the same size as its brothers and sisters. It hasn?t yet, learned to walk balanced on its two front legs as the strange little pig is trying. Meanwhile, it has been taken from the litter and is being hand fed with bottle. (AP Photo)

The first party of Belgian children are seen off by their parents at Brussels when they leave for a three months? recuperation period in Switzerland, July 15, 1945. They are being sent to recover from the effects of undernourishment and bombing during the enemy occupation, by the Belgian Red Cross. (AP Photo)

Entertainer Al Jolson is seen as he arrives at Temple Emanu-El, in New York City, to attend the funeral of composer George Gershwin on July 15, 1937. (AP Photo)

The Diligenti quintuplets, born on July 15, 1943, in a Buenos Aires, Argentina, suburb to Franco Diligenti and his 42-year-old Italian wife, Vallota, wait for the sun to rise in the morning as they prepare for the dayþÄôs activities. From left to right they are: Maria Esther, Maria Cristina, Franco Jr., Carlos Alberto, and Maria Fernanda. This photo was made when the children were ten months old in May 1944. (AP Photo)

Edmund C. Bartholmey, left, and Alvin Karpis, right, are escorted by federal guards from jail to federal court at St. Paul, Mo., July 15, 1936. Bartholmey, a former postmaster from Besenville, Ill., and Karpis face charges of conspiracy in connection with the kidnapping of William Hamm, a St. Paul brewer, in 1936. Karpis pleaded guilty and will be sentenced after the trial of Bartholmey is concluded. (AP Phtoo)

Photographed is the Womens Swimming Team as they sailed July 15, 1936 on the Manhattan for Berlin and the Olympic Games. Left to right are; Edith Mobridge, Eleanor Holm Jarrett, Katherine Rawls, Dorothy Poynton Hill, Lenore Kight Wingard. (AP Photo)

5,000 young fascists assembled in the Mussolini Forum, in Rome, on July 15, 1936, to hear an address by their leader, Renato Ricci, on the occasion of the raising of sanctions against Italy. (AP Photo)

A bloodless bullfight on July 15, 1941. Location unknown. (AP Photo)

German prisoners of war marching through sheds in Quebec, Canada, on July 15, 1940, on their way to Canadian prison camps. They are part of the first shipload of prisoners transferred from England and are mainly soldiers, airmen, parachutists and sailors. (AP Photo)

Captain E.R. Owen, Canadian Air Force flyer, was made an honorary chief of the Blackfeet Indian tribe in Calgary, Alberta, Canada, July 15, 1941. Wearing a feathered headpiece, he stands with two young Indian women assigned as escorts, Margaret Crowfoot, 17, at left, and Virginia Yellowflower, 15. (AP Photo)

An American version of a sidewalk caf‡©, in fallen La Haye du Puits, France on July 15, 1944, as Robert McCurty, left, Newark, N.J. Sgt. Harold Smith, Brush Creek, Tenn., center and Sgt. Richard Bennett, Wilkes Barre, Pa., raise their glasses in a toast. (AP Photo)

After nearly six years of war-enforced darkness, the city lights of London, England, are bright again, July 15, 1945. Reflected in the River Thames are the lights of Big Ben, left, and the embankment, right. Waterloo Bridge is in the center. (AP Photo)

Among the celebrities attending the premiere of þÄúThe Story of Will RogersþÄù at the Beverly Hills Theatre in Hollywood, Ca., are, from left, Janet Leigh, Tony Curtis, Patti Lewis and Jerry Lewis on July 15, 1952. (AP Photo)

Dutch folk dancers performing in Hyde Park, London, England, at the opening of the International Folk Dance Festival on July 15, 1935. Seventeen European countries were represented at the event. (AP Photo/RID)

President Harry S. Truman is shown during his acceptance speech at the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia, July 15, 1948. (AP Photo)

The family of William Scranton joins in the hoopla after the Pennsylvania governor was nominated for President at the Republican convention in San Francisco, July 15, 1964. Mrs. Scranton at left applauds as the three children wave signs. They are from left: Joseph, 14; Susan 18; and William, 16. (AP Photo)

Trooper of the U.S. 1st division uses one hand to hang on to rope and the other to hold his M16 above the water as he is pulled across a stream in an area his unit was patrolling about 10 miles east of Saigon on July 15, 1968. (AP Photo)

Princess Grace of Monaco as she looks at portrait of herself and her children, Princess Caroline, age seven and a half, and Prince Albert, age six, in Monte Carlo on July 15, 1964. Portrait was painted by Vidal Quadras, in background behind Princess Grace. (AP Photo)

Band of CORE demonstrators cross the Brooklyn Bridge into Manhattan in New York City, July 17, 1965 during protest march to police headquarters. Group was protesting the fatal shooting of a black man by a rookie patrolman in Brooklyn?s Bedford Stuyvesant section on July 15. (AP Photo/Dave Pickoff)

Israeli self-propelled 155mm haubitzes returning fire in the El Qantara area on the east bank of the Suez Canal, Egypt, on July 15, 1967, during the War of Attrition. (AP Photo/Michel Lipchitz)

A stunned and burned gunner of a CH-46 Sea Knight helicopter walks from the jungle after being pinned down by enemy fire following the crash of his chopper in the bivouac area of a U.S. Marine unit about one mile (2000 meters) south of the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ), July 15, 1966. Troops had to fight off Viet Cong snipers before the wounded gunner could emerge from the cover of the brush. Two others survived, but 13 were reported dead in the crash and subsequent fire. (AP Photo/Horst Faas)

Members of the Illinois National Guard begin to arrive at the Armory in Chicago on July 15, 1966, after being summoned following two persons were killed in the third night of rioting. (AP Photo)

In this July 15, 1964 file photo, Lee Petty, center, and his sons Maurice, left, and Richard look into the empty engine well of a new race car in their garage in Level Cross, N.C. Petty Enterprises has sold majority ownership to the equity firm of Boston Ventures. Under the deal announced Wednesday June 11, 2008, NASCARþÄôs most storied race team gives up control of an organization that has been family run since 1949. (AP Photo)

View of 23rd St. in Havana, July 15, 1964. (AP Photo)

An Apollo-suited Manned Spacecraft Center technician as he deploys an Apollo Lunar Experiments Package on the moonscape at the Houston space center on July 15, 1966. The scientific instruments will be carried to the surface of the moon in a LEM similar to the mockup in the background. The scientific package weights about 170 pounds, but on the moon its weight is only about 30 pounds. (AP Photo/Ed Kolenovsky)

The Swastika hoisted over the British Channel Island Jersey after the occupation by German Troops, July 15, 1940. (AP Photo)

The majestic Arc de Triomphe gleams under golden spotlights as streams of automobile lights are visible in this time lapse photo taken in Paris, France, July 15, 1960. The Arc is one of many monuments in Paris to Napoleon, who dreamed of making the city the capital of Europe. (AP Photo)

The King of Swat, Babe Ruth, and his wife, Claire at the Astor Theater in New York on July 15, 1942, attend the world premiere of þÄúPride of the YankeesþÄù, Samuel GoldwynþÄôs film of the life of Lou Gehrig. The Babe and Lou were teammates and slugging rivals on the New York Yankees for many years. The Babe plays himself in the picture. (AP Photo)

General Sir Bernard L. Montgomery, commander of British ground forces in France,, July 15, 1944 pauses for a moment at his field headquarters to give a little attention to his mascots which accompany him during his battle campaigns. On the left, is 'Hitler,' a black and white fox terrior, and on the right, is 'Rommel,' a brown spaniel. The general also carries along his pet canaries, in the cage in the background, left. (AP Photo)

Navy, Army and Air Force are combining in coastal defense exercises which continued over a wide area of sea and land between Portsmouth and Plymouth, Devon. Among the innovations used, when an air raid black-out plunged Portsmouth into darkness was this new type of anti gas decontamination suit. It is absolutely air tight, and cannot be worn for more than 40 minutes. Ground engineers at an Air Force station near Portsmouth, Hampshire, on July 15, 1937, wearing the new decontamination suits in readiness for a raid. (AP Photo)

A jobless man, one of millions, is interviewed in a New York State Employment Office in New York City, July 15, 1963. Blacks' percentage among the unemployed is triple that of whites. (AP Photo/Eddie Adams)

Jimmy Carter with Sen. Walter Mondale of Minn., his vice presidential choice, on the final night of the national democratic convention in Madison Square Garden in New York July 15, 1976. (AP Photo)

Walter Scott þÄúDeath Valley Scotty,þÄù who shopped all over the state of California for five weeks and spent $4,500 for 15 mules, is with Barnum, his saddle mule, and two of his pack animals in Los Angeles on July 15, 1936. The other twelve mules are scattered throughout the state and will not be assembled until Scotty leaves for the desert. (AP Photo/Ira W. Guldner)

A Polaris submarine rocket separates and blows up after a range safety officer noted a maifunction of the test in Cape Canaveral, Fla. on July 15, 1959. (AP Photo)

New roads have enabled many miners to leave the coal camps, and to settle on subsistence homesteads in Dickenson County, Virginia, seen July 15, 1939. The Clintwood bank has financed hundreds of purchase loans. (AP Photo)

After 22 years German soldiers are again standing in the tower of the cathedral and gazing down upon the old German city of Strasburg, Germany on July 15, 1940. (AP Photo)

A general view of opening ceremonies at the 1924 Summer Olympics at Colombes Stadium, Paris, France, July 15, 1924. (AP Photo)

The heavily damaged church of St.Pierre stands amid rubble and debris in war-torn Caen, after British and Canadian troops captured the French city in the Normandy region from the Germans, July 15, 1944, during World War II. (AP Photo)

Professor Albert Einstein, the famous relativity author, at work in his simple country cottage ay Caputh, near Berlin, July 15, 1931. (AP Photo)

Breaking a strict personal rule, George Bernard Shaw, famous dramatist, appears for a 'Curtain call' at the television presentation of his play, 'how he lied to her husband' July 15, 1937 in London. (AP Photo)

Pulaski County, Arkansas Sheriff Tom Gulley pins a deputyþÄôs badge on Mike Hehaffy as Jimmie Flack, Jerry Kennedy and Otis Lee Bratton, (left to right) look on, July 15, 1947. This quartet added to the laurels of the junior policemen by taking part in the capture of a burglar. Boys between 9 and 16 have been organized by Sheriff Gulley in an effort to combat juvenile delinquency in the county. (AP Photo)

Wiley Post waves from an open car during a tickertape parade in his honor up Broadway from Battery Park to City Hall, where he will be greeted by the mayor, in New York City on July 26, 1933. Post made the first solo flight around the world, from July 15 to 22, setting a new record with a distance of 15,596 miles, 25,099 kilometer, in 7 days, 18 hours, 49 minutes. (AP Photo)

Howard Hughes waves to the crowd from the back seat of an open car, center, during a welcome parade for the aviator along Broadway in lower Manhattan, July 15, 1938. Hughes and his crew arrived yesterday after completing a flight around the world in less than four days. (AP Photo)

Along fashionable Via Veneto in Rome, July 15, 1952, movie actor Gregory Peck is intrigued by a picture of himself adorning the cover of an Italian magazine on sale at a news stand. (AP Photo/Remo Nassi)