(Monday, July 22, 1861) — Reaction poured in today, one day after the First Battle of Manassas, also known as the First Battle of Bull Run (the name used by Union forces), resulted in a Confederate victory.
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0UulB1KOTwA China Beach Tribute
(Monday, July 22, 1991, 9/10 p.m. ET) — McMurphy agrees to attend a China Beach reunion planned by Boonie and recalls her last day in Vietnam on tonight’s final two episodes of the TV series China Beach.
(Friday, July 20, 2001) — Spirited Away, a Japanese animated fantasy-adventure film written and directed by Hayao Miyazaki and produced by Studio Ghibli, opened today in Japan. The film tells the story of Chihiro Ogino, a sullen ten-year-old girl who is in the process of moving to a new neighborhood.
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pXEU7H3ZXtI
Paul McCartney – Secret Gig 1991 interview
(Friday, July 19, 1991) — Paul McCartney performs at Cliffs Pavilion in Westcliff-on-Sea, England as part of his Unplugged 1991 Summer Tour, a European impromptu tour of six “secret” gigs scheduled to promote the release of the “Unplugged” live album.
(note: the video is intermixed with film from Friday, July 16, 1971, at another book signing. Lennon wore a solid dark coat on July 15, and a dark coat featuring small colored shapes on July 16)
(Thursday, July 15, 1971) — John Lennon and Yoko Ono attended a book-signing promotional appearance today at the London department store, Selfridges, for the re-publication of Yoko’s book, “Grapefruit.” It is shown over the song It’s So Hard in the documentary “Gimme Some Truth: The Making of John Lennon’s Imagine Album.”
(Sunday, July 14, 1861) — A week before the Battle of Bull Run, Sullivan Ballou, a major in the 2nd Rhode Island Volunteers, wrote home to his wife in Smithfield.
(Sunday, July 11, 1971) — White House Counsel John Dean flew to San Clemente, California, today to tell Chief Domestic Advisor John Ehrlichman that a plan to firebomb the Brookings Institution, which was conducting a study of American involvement in Vietnam thought to be another “Pentagon Papers” covering the Nixon years, should be abandoned. Ehrlichman called the operation off.
(Tuesday, July 9, 1861) — Civil War diarist Mary Chestnut expresses hope for “our battle summer. May it be our first and our last, so called. After all we have not had any of the horrors of war.”