Celebration Excuse
It’s July 25 and the bikini is an abomination to fashion, the Beatles are taking over, and Puerto Rico is like America’s kid brother, except, you know, without voting rights. Party hard, it’s Hurricane Supplication day in the Virgin Islands!
1814
The Americans defeat the British at the battle of Niagara Falls; tourists begin arriving approximately 10 minutes afterward.
1898
The U.S. invades Puerto Rico with land troops after several years of sea-based bombing.
1946
Legendary Rat Pack-ers Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis share a stage for the first time as a comedy team.
1946
Scandalous! The first bikini is shown at a Paris fashion show and is dramatically declared “the atom bomb of fashion” by the editor of Vogue.
1952
Commonwealth of Puerto Rico created, forced to endure constant reminders that it is not, in fact, a state.
1964
Rock on. The Beatles’ album “Hard Day’s Night” goes #1 and stays there for 14 weeks.
1984
Girl Power! Soviet cosmonaut Svetlana Savitskaya becomes the first woman to perform a space walk.
1999
Cycling powerhouse Lance Armstrong wins his first Tour de France.
Party like it’s your birthday
1954:Famed Chicago Bears running back, Walter Payton
1955: Star Trek actress, model, and David Bowie’s muse, Iman
1967: Everybody’s best Friend, Matt LeBlanc
1978: The world’s first “test tube baby,” Louise Brown
1982: Actor Brad Renfro
Daybook
El Presidente smiles for the camera, Congress rolls up its sleeves on the war, and Matt Damon’s on Leno (maybe he’ll give a nod to his project with CAPAF, ‘Clean My Ride’)
POTUS
9:55
President Bush gives a presentation of the Report by the President’s Commission on Care for America’s Returning Wounded Warriors.
3:30
The President capitalizes on a photo op with the 2007 Boys and Girls Nation Delegates.
STUMPIN’
Senator Barack Obama holds a private event in New York City.
Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton, Senator Barack Obama, and John Edwards attend a forum in St. Louis, MO.
Rep. Duncan Hunter appears on the Iowa talk radio show “The Right Balance.”
Gov. Bill Richardson shakes hands and kisses babies in Iowa.
Senator John McCain holds town hall meetings around New Hampshire.
Fred Thompson raises campaign cash in Houston, TX.
ON THE HILL
Senate
9:30 AM
Senate Veterans Affairs Committee hearing on VA Health Care Funding
10:00 AM
Senate Rules and Administration Committee hearing on Voter-verified Paper Voting Records
House
9:00 AM
House Appropriations Committee full committee markup of the FY2008 Defense Appropriations bill.
10:00 AM
House Armed Services Committee hearing on Alternatives for Iraq’s Future (Part III)
10:15 AM
House Judiciary Committee hearing on Miers-Bolton Contempt of Congress Citations
1:00 PM
House Armed Services Committee and House (Select) Intelligence Committee hearing on National Intelligence Estimate and Al-Qaeda
TV TIME
TIVO IT
Oprah: Behind the scenes with Oprah at work
The View: James Marsden,
Regis and Kelly: Aaron Eckhart, Katherine McPhee,
Ellen DeGeneres: (Repeat) Jennifer Lopez, Kym Douglas
STAY UP LATE
Stewart: Rob Gifford
Colbert: Charles Kaiser
Letterman: Catherine Zeta-Jones
Leno: Matt Damon, George Foreman
Conan: (Repeat) Julia Louis-Dreyfus
Last Call: Naomie Harris, Ben Kweller
Kimmel: Don Cheadle, Zac Efron, music from The Editors
Charlie Rose: Director Milos Foreman
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