What A Day It Was!

• Jesse Owens set or tied four world records, also in 1935

• John “Monkey Trial” Scopes was indicted, in 1925. 

• Cassius Clay (later Muhammad Ali) beat Sonny Liston in 1965.

• The film Midnight Cowboy, with Dustin Hoffman as Ratso Rizzo, was released in 1969.  It became the first (and only) X-rated film ever to win the Oscar as best picture.

OK, so a little bit of infamy there, for the Scopes indictment. How astonishing that Texas is still fighting that same battle today.