Category Archives: Because I Can

56th Annual Street Rod Nationals

56th Annual Street Rod Nationals


Kentucky Exposition Center, Louisville, Kentucky
July 31st, August 1st – 3rd, 2025

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The 80th Annual Gerry Rodeo

Gerry Rodeo

OLDEST CONSECUTIVE RODEO EAST OF THE MISSISSIPPI

July 30 – August 2, 2025

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RIP Ozzy Osbourne

The glass is January 2nd

Brittany Force makes fastest run in NHRA history

Anniversary of STS-135 landing

Space shuttle Atlantis lands for the STS-135 mission marking the final mission of the Space Shuttle Program at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Time of landing was 5:57 a.m. (EDT) on July 21, 2011.

The “just at dawn” landing was one of the most memorable landings ever, as shown in this picture:

STS-135 Landing

 

56th Annual Street Rod Nationals

56th Annual Street Rod Nationals


Kentucky Exposition Center, Louisville, Kentucky
July 31st, August 1st – 3rd, 2025

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The 80th Annual Gerry Rodeo

Gerry Rodeo

OLDEST CONSECUTIVE RODEO EAST OF THE MISSISSIPPI

July 30 – August 2, 2025

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Chivalry

KISS Final Show Ever

Hammond & May drive the Top Gear Track one last time

Anniversary of STS-135 launch

Space shuttle Atlantis launches for the STS-135 mission to the International Space Station in the final mission of the Space Shuttle Program at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Liftoff was at 11:29 a.m. (EDT) on July 8, 2011. Astronauts Chris Ferguson, STS-135 commander; Doug Hurley, pilot; Sandy Magnus and Rex Walheim, both mission specialists, were on board.

STS-135 launch

 

The Genius Tricks Behind 1920s Movie Stunts

Now you see it, now you don’t (truck explodes)

Dancing Robot Dogs on AGT

Happy 4th of July!

40th Anniversary of Back to the Future

Back to the Future is a 1985 American science fiction film directed by Robert Zemeckis and written by Zemeckis and Bob Gale. It stars Michael J. Fox, Christopher Lloyd, Lea Thompson, Crispin Glover, and Thomas F. Wilson. Set in 1985, it follows Marty McFly (Fox), a teenager accidentally sent back to 1955 in a time-traveling DeLorean automobile built by his eccentric scientist friend Emmett “Doc” Brown (Lloyd), where he inadvertently prevents his future parents from falling in love – threatening his own existence – and is forced to reconcile them and somehow get back to the future.

July 3, 1985

RIP Andy Griffith

Andrew Samuel "Andy" Griffith (June 1, 1926 – July 3, 2012)
Andrew Samuel “Andy” Griffith (June 1, 1926 – July 3, 2012)

Andy Griffith was an American actor, director, producer, Grammy Award-winning Southern-gospel singer, and writer. He gained prominence in the starring role in director Elia Kazan’s epic film, A Face in the Crowd (1957) before he became better known for his television roles, playing the lead characters in the 1960–68 situation comedy, The Andy Griffith Show, and in the 1986–95 legal drama, Matlock. Griffith was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by US President George W. Bush on November 9, 2005. Griffith died on July 3, 2012 at the age of 86.

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6 Pallas’ cat kittens born

Arthur Treacher’s Fish & Chips

Arthur Treacher’s Fish & Chips is an American fast food seafood restaurant and former restaurant chain. At the peak of its popularity in the late 1970s, it had 826 stores.

The chain is the namesake of Arthur Treacher (1894–1975), an English character actor typecast as “the perfect butler” for his performances as Jeeves, a butler in several Shirley Temple films in addition to the role of Constable Jones in Mary Poppins from Walt Disney Productions.

Arthur Treacher (July 23, 1894 – December 14, 1975)

Cuyahoga Falls Mayor Don Walters designated June 30, 2021, as Arthur Treacher’s Day.