July 21

July 21 is the 202nd day (203rd in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian Calendar, with 165 days remaining.

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Table of contents

1 Events
2 Births
3 Deaths
4 Holidays and observances

Events

1298 - Battle of Falkirk (1298): England's Edward Longshank defeats William Wallace's Scottish rebels
1568 - Battle of Jemmingen: Fernando Álvarez de Toledo, Duke of Alva defeats Louis of Nassau
1718 - Treaty of Passarowitz signed.
1774 - Russia and the Ottoman Empire sign the Treaty of Kuchuk-Kainarji ending the Russo-Turkish War, 1768-74.
1831 - Inauguration of Leopold I of Belgium, first king of the Belgians.
1861 - American Civil War: First Battle of Bull Run - At Manassas Junction, Virginia, the first major battle of the war begins (Confederate victory).
1865 - In the market square of Springfield, Missouri, Wild Bill Hickok shoots Dave Tutt dead in what is regarded as the first true western showdown.
1873 - At Adair, Iowa, Jesse James and the James-Younger gang pull off the first successful train robbery in the American West.
1877 - After rioting by Baltimore and Ohio Railroad workers and the deaths of 9 rail workers at the hands of the Maryland militia, workers in Pittsburgh stage a sympathy strike that is met with an assault by the state militia.
1925 - Scopes Trial: In Dayton, Tennessee, high school biology teacher John T. Scopes is found guilty of teaching evolution in class and fined $100.
1931 - CBS's New York City station begins broadcasting the first regular seven days a week television schedule in the U. S.
1944 - World War II: Battle of Guam - American troops land on Guam starting the battle (ends on August 10).
1954 - First Indochina War: The Geneva Conference partitions Vietnam into North Vietnam and South Vietnam.
1961 - Mercury program: Gus Grissom piloting the Mercury 4 capsule "Liberty Bell 7" becomes the second American to go into orbit around the Earth.
1970 - After 11 years of construction, the Aswan High Dam in Egypt is completed.
1984 - In Jackson, Michigan, a factory robot crushes a worker against a safety bar in apparently the first robot-related death in the United States.
1995 - Third Taiwan Strait Crisis: The People's Liberation Army begins firing missiles into the waters north of Taiwan.
1997 - The fully restored USS Constitution (aka "Old Ironsides") celebrates her 200th birthday by setting sail for the first time in 116 years.
2002 - Telecom giant WorldCom files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in the largest such filing in United States history.
2004 - The United Kingdom government publishes Delivering Security in a Changing World, a paper detailing wide-ranging reform of the country's armed forces.

Births

1414 - Pope Sixtus IV
1810 - Henri Victor Regnault, chemist and physicist
1858 - Lovis Corinth, painter and graphic artist (d. 1925)
1870 - Emil Orlik, painter and graphic artist (d. 1932)
1893 - Hans Fallada, writer (d. 1947)
1899 - Hart Crane, poet (d. 1932)
1899 - Ernest Hemingway, author (d. 1961)
1903 - Roy Neuberger, financier & art collector
1911 - Marshall McLuhan, author (d. 1980)
1920 - Isaac Stern, violinist (d. 2001)
1924 - Don Knotts, actor
1926 - Norman Jewison, film director
1935 - Norbert Blüm, German politician
1938 - Janet Reno, former Attorney General of the United States
1943 - Edward Herrmann, actor
1944 - Tony Scott, film director
1944 - Paul Wellstone, U.S. Senator: Democrat from Minnesota (d. 2002)
1948 - Ed Hinton, sportswriter
1948 - Cat Stevens (Yusuf Islam), singer
1948 - Garry Trudeau, cartoonist
1952 - Robin Williams, comedian
1957 - Jon Lovitz, comedian
1968 - Brandi Chastain, American soccer player
1968 - Lyle Odelein, Hockey Player
1978 - Josh Hartnett, actor

Deaths

1425 - Manuel II Palaeologus, Byzantine Emperor
1796 - Robert Burns, poet
1833 - Robert G. Ingersoll, American political leader and orator, atheist, American Civil War Colonel
1870 - Josef Strauss, composer
1938 - Owen Wister, author
1943 - Charlie Paddock, American athlete
1948 - David Wark Griffith, film director
1967 - Jimmie Foxx, Baseball Hall of Famer
1967 - Basil Rathbone, actor
1968 - Ruth St. Denis, dancer, choreographer
1972 - Ralph Craig, American athlete
1982 - Dave Garroway, television host
1998 - Alan Shepard, astronaut
1998 - Robert Young, actor
2004 - Elder Neal A. Maxwell, member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

Holidays and observances

Belgium: National holiday (1831 - inauguration of Leopold I, first king of the Belgians)
Bolivia: Martyrs' Day
Guam: Liberation Day (1944)
Singapore: Racial Harmony Day

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