July 3, 1898
Emperor Guangxu of China's Qing Dynasty issued an edict to establish Jingshi University Hall, or the Imperial University of Peking （京師大學堂）.
Jingshi University Hall was the first national comprehensive university in China and the precursor of Peking University.
W.A.P. Martin, an American missionary， translator, and Emperor Guangxu's English teacher was appointed the president of the university in August.
Today is
International Plastic Bag Free Day
Did you know?
· We use 5 trillion plastic bags per year! That’s 160,000 a second!
That’s over 700 per person per year.
• By 2050, the world's oceans could contain more plastic than fish measured by weight.
Costa Rica has become the first country in the world to eliminate plastic bags, bottles, cutlery, straws, and coffee stirrers as of 2021.
My wife drew the picture. It's our way of saying NO to the single-use plastic bags.
July 3, 1971
Jim Morrison, the American singer (lead vocalist of the rock band “The Door”), songwriter, and poet, died at age 27.
In 2011, a Rolling Stone readers' pick placed Jim Morrison in fifth position on the magazine's "Best Lead Singers of All Time."
To this day, Morrison is widely regarded as the prototypical rock star: surly, sexy, scandalous, and mysterious. (Wikipedia)