July 6, 1994
The movie Forrest Gump was released in the U.S.
It won 6 Oscar Awards the following year (1995).
Today is
National Fried Chicken Day
Since the Scottish immigrants brought the recipe to America, fried chicken had become one of the Americans’ favorite food.
But it was not until Colonel Harland David Sanders started cooking it fast that fried chicken became an iconic American fast food.
Sanders began selling his chicken at the age of 65, under the brand name “Kentucky Fried Chicken (KFC.)”
The moral of the story is: it’s never too late to find the thing you are passionate about:)
July 6, 1971
Louis Armstrong, the American trumpeter, and vocalist died at age of 69.
July 6, 1962
William Faulkner, the American writer, died at age 64. Faulkner won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1949, Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1955 and 1963, and National Book Award in 1951 and 1955.
July 6, 1893
Henri René Albert Guy de Maupassant (better known as Maupassant), the French author, the master of short stories, died at age 42.