July 21
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July 21 is the 202nd day (203rd in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian Calendar, with 163 days remaining.
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Events
- 1298 - Battle of Falkirk (1298): England's King, Edward Longshank, defeats William Wallace's Scottish rebels
- 1403 - Battle of Shrewsbury: England's King Henry IV defeats rebels to the north of the county town of Shropshire, England
- 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, 1768-1774.
- 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.
- 1963 - Pope Paul VI elected by College of Cardinals.
- 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.
- 2005 - Clarence Richard Silva ordained to the episcopate as bishop of Honolulu.
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Births
- 1414 - Pope Sixtus IV (d. 1484)
- 1810 - Henri Victor Regnault, French chemist and physicist (d. 1878)
- 1858 - Lovis Corinth, German painter and graphic artist (d. 1925)
- 1870 - Emil Orlik, Czech painter and graphic artist (d. 1932)
- 1893 - Hans Fallada, German writer (d. 1947)
- 1899 - Hart Crane, American poet (d. 1932)
- 1899 - Ernest Hemingway, American author (d. 1961)
- 1903 - Roy Neuberger, American financier and art collector
- 1911 - Marshall McLuhan, Canadian author (d. 1980)
- 1920 - Isaac Stern, Ukrainian violinist (d. 2001)
- 1924 - Don Knotts, American actor
- 1925 - Anne Meacham, Broadway and television actress
- 1926 - Norman Jewison, film director
- 1932 - Ernie Warlick, American football player
- 1933 - John Gardner, American author (d. 1982)
- 1935 - Norbert Blüm, German politician
- 1938 - Janet Reno, former Attorney General of the United States
- 1941 - Martin Bandier, Chairman and CEO of EMI Music Publishing
- 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), English singer
- 1948 - Garry Trudeau, cartoonist
- 1952 - Robin Williams, American comedian
- 1957 - Jon Lovitz, comedian
- 1960 - Lance Guest, American actor
- 1968 - Brandi Chastain, American soccer player
- 1968 - Lyle Odelein, ice hockey player
- 1978 - Josh Hartnett, actor
- 1979 - David Carr, American football quarterback
- 1983 - Kellen Winslow Jr., American football player
- 1983 - Eivør Pálsdóttir, Faroese singer and composer
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Deaths
- 1425 - Manuel II Palaeologus, Byzantine Emperor (b. 1350)
- 1796 - Robert Burns, Scottish poet (b. 1759)
- 1870 - Josef Strauss, Austrian composer (b. 1827)
- 1899 - Robert G. Ingersoll, American political leader and orator, atheist, American Civil War Colonel (b. 1833)
- 1938 - Owen Wister, American author (b. 1860)
- 1943 - Charlie Paddock, American athlete (b. 1900)
- 1948 - David Wark Griffith, American film director (b. 1875)
- 1967 - Jimmie Foxx, Baseball Hall of Famer (b. 1907)
- 1967 - Basil Rathbone, English actor (b. 1892)
- 1968 - Ruth St. Denis, dancer, choreographer (b. 1878)
- 1970 - Bob Kalsu, American football player (b. 1945)
- 1972 - Ralph Craig, American athlete (b. 1889)
- 1982 - Dave Garroway, American television host (b. 1913)
- 1998 - Alan Shepard, astronaut (b. 1923)
- 1998 - Robert Young, American actor (b. 1907)
- 2001 - Steve Barton, actor
- 2003 - Walter M. "Matt" Jefferies, film art director
- 2003 - John Davies, president of the New Zealand Olympic Committee
- 2004 - Elder Neal A. Maxwell, member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
- 2004 - Jerry Goldsmith, film score composer
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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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External links
- BBC: On This Day (http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/july/21)
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