Tag: Tennessee

Podcast

7th June 1982: Elvis Presley’s Graceland estate in Memphis, Tennessee, was opened to the public

7th June 2021
Tagged as: America, Culture, Elvis, Memphis, Music, Tennessee, United States, USA

Elvis Presley purchased Graceland for $102,500 in 1957 when he was 22 years old.

Podcast

28th November 1925: The Grand Ole Opry, the longest-running radio show in the USA, broadcast for the first time

28th November 2020
Tagged as: America, Culture, Music, Nashville, Radio, Tennessee, United States, USA

The Grand Ole Opry moved to its current home at the 4,000-seater Grand Ole Opry House in 1974.

Podcast

21st July 1925: ‘Monkey Trial’ finds John T. Scopes guilty of teaching evolution

21st July 2020
Tagged as: America, Christianity, Creationism, Darwin, Evolution, Law, Religion, Tennessee, Trial, USA

John Thomas Scopes, a substitute science teacher in Tennessee, was found guilty of teaching evolution in school.