July 21st Events |
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| July 21st, 2005 (July 21 2005) | Event | Four terrorist bombings, occurring exactly two weeks after the similar July 7 bombings, target London s public transportation system. All four bombs fail to detonate and all four suspected suicide bombers were captured, convicted and imprisoned for long terms. | |
| July 21st, 2004 (July 21 2004) | Event | The United Kingdom government publishes Delivering Security in a Changing World, a paper detailing wide-ranging reform of the country s armed forces. | |
| July 21st, 2002 (July 21 2002) | Event | Telecom giant WorldCom files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in the largest such filing in United States history. | |
| July 21st, 1997 (July 21 1997) | Event | The fully restored USS Constitution (aka "Old Ironsides") celebrates her 200th birthday by setting sail for the first time in 116 years. | |
| July 21st, 1995 (July 21 1995) | Event | Third Taiwan Strait Crisis: The People s Liberation Army begins firing missiles into the waters north of Taiwan. | |
| July 21st, 1994 (July 21 1994) | Event | Tony Blair is declared the winner of the leadership election of the British Labour Party, paving the way to him becoming Prime Minister in 1997. | Tony Blair Quotes |
| July 21st, 1983 (July 21 1983) | Event | The world s lowest temperature is recorded at Vostok Station, Antarctica at ?89.2øC (?129øF). | |
| July 21st, 1977 (July 21 1977) | Event | Start of a four day long Libyan-Egyptian War. | |
| July 21st, 1976 (July 21 1976) | Event | Christopher Ewart-Biggs British ambassador to the Republic of Ireland is assassinated by the Provisional IRA. | |
| July 21st, 1973 (July 21 1973) | Event | In the Lillehammer affair in Norway, Israeli Mossad agents kill a waiter whom they mistakenly thought was involved in 1972 s Munich Olympics Massacre. | |
| July 21st, 1972 (July 21 1972) | Event | Bloody Friday bombing by the Provisional Irish Republican Army (PIRA) around Belfast, Northern Ireland22 bomb explosions, 9 people killed and 130 people seriously injured. | |
| July 21st, 1970 (July 21 1970) | Event | After 11 years of construction, the Aswan High Dam in Egypt is completed. | |
| July 21st, 1969 (July 21 1969) | Event | Neil A. Armstrong and Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin become the first men to walk on the Moon, during the Apollo 11 mission. | Neil Armstrong Quotes |
| July 21st, 1961 (July 21 1961) | Event | Mercury program: Mercury-Redstone 4 MissionGus Grissom piloting "Liberty Bell 7" becomes the second American to go into space (in a suborbital mission). | |
| July 21st, 1960 (July 21 1960) | Event | Sirimavo Bandaranaike becomes the first woman prime minister in the world, making her the first elected female national leader in the world (Sri Lanka). | |
| July 21st, 1954 (July 21 1954) | Event | First Indochina War: The Geneva Conference partitions Vietnam into North Vietnam and South Vietnam. | |
| July 21st, 1944 (July 21 1944) | Event | World War II: Battle of GuamAmerican troops land on Guam starting the battle (ends on August 10). | |
| July 21st, 1931 (July 21 1931) | Event | CBS s New York City station begins broadcasting the first regular seven days a week television schedule in the U.S. | |
| July 21st, 1925 (July 21 1925) | Event | Scopes Trial: In Dayton, Tennessee, high school biology teacher John T. Scopes is found guilty of teaching evolution in class and fined $100. | |
| July 21st, 1877 (July 21 1877) | Event | After rioting by Baltimore and Ohio Railroad workers and the deaths of nine 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. | |
| July 21st, 1873 (July 21 1873) | Event | At Adair, Iowa, Jesse James and the James-Younger gang pull off the first successful train robbery in the American West. | |
| July 21st, 1865 (July 21 1865) | Event | In the market square of Springfield, Missouri, Wild Bill Hickok shoots Dave Tutt dead in what is regarded as the first true western showdown. | |
| July 21st, 1861 (July 21 1861) | Event | American Civil War: First Battle of Bull RunAt Manassas Junction, Virginia, the first major battle of the war begins (Confederate victory). | |
| July 21st, 1831 (July 21 1831) | Event | Inauguration of Leopold I of Belgium, first king of the Belgians. | |
| July 21st, 1774 (July 21 1774) | Event | Russo-Turkish War, 1768-1774: Russia and the Ottoman Empire sign the Treaty of Kuchuk-Kainarji ending the war. | |
| July 21st, 1718 (July 21 1718) | Event | Treaty of Passarowitz between the Ottoman Empire, Austria and the Republic of Venice is signed. | |
| July 21st, 1568 (July 21 1568) | Event | Eighty Years War: Battle of JemmingenFernando Alvarez de Toledo, Duke of Alva defeats Louis of Nassau | Al Alvarez Quotes |
| July 21st, 1545 (July 21 1545) | Event | The first landing of French troops onto the coast of the Isle of Wight during the French invasion of the Isle of Wight occurs. | |
| July 21st, 1403 (July 21 1403) | Event | Battle of Shrewsbury: King Henry IV of England defeats rebels to the north of the county town of Shropshire, England | |
| July 21st, 0356 (July 21 0356) | Event | A young man called Herostratus set fire to the Temple of Artemis in Ephesus, one of the Seven Wonders of the World. | |
| July 21st, 0285 (July 21 0285) | Event | Diocletian appoints Maximian as Caesar, co-ruler. | |
