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This Date in History - July 21st
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* 356 BC Herostratus sets fire to the Temple of Artemis in Ephesus, one of the Seven Wonders of the World.
* 285 Diocletian appoints Maximian as Caesar and co-ruler.
* 365 A tsunami devastates the city of Alexandria, Egypt. The tsunami is caused by an earthquake estimated to be 8.0 on the Richter Scale. 5,000 people perished in the Alexandria, and 45,000 more died outside of the city.
* 1403 Battle of Shrewsbury: King Henry IV of England defeats rebels to the north of the county town of Shropshire, England.
* 1545 The first landing of French troops on the coast of the Isle of Wight during the French invasion of the Isle of Wight occurs.
* 1568 Eighty Years' War: Battle of Jemmingen Fernando Αlvarez de Toledo, Duke of Alva defeats Louis of Nassau.
* 1718 The Treaty of Passarowitz between the Ottoman Empire, Austria and the Republic of Venice is signed.
* 1774 Russo-Turkish War, 1768-1774: Russia and the Ottoman Empire sign the Treaty of Kuchuk-Kainarji ending the war.
* 1831 Inauguration of Lιopold 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 and ends in a victory for the Confederate army.
* 1865 In the market square of Springfield, Missouri, Wild Bill Hickok shoots and kills Davis Tutt 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 Old West.
* 1877 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, Pennsylvania stage a sympathy strike that is met with an assault by the state militia.
* 1904 Louis Rigolly, a Frenchman, becomes the first man to break the 100 mph (161 km/h) barrier on land. He drove a 15-liter Gobron-Brille in Ostend, Belgium.
* 1918 U-156 shells Nauset Beach, in Orleans, Massachusetts. This is the first time that the United States is shelled since the Mexican-American War.
* 1919 The dirigible Wingfoot Air Express crashes into the Illinois Trust and Savings Building in Chicago, killing 12 people.
* 1925 Scopes Trial: In Dayton, Tennessee, high school biology teacher John T. Scopes is found guilty of teaching evolution in class and fined $100.
* 1925 Sir Malcolm Campbell becomes the first man to break the 150 mph (241 km/h) land barrier at Pendine Sands in Wales. He drove a Sunbeam to a two-way average of 150.33 mph (242 km/h).
* 1944 World War II: Battle of Guam American troops land on Guam starting the battle. It would end on August 10.
* 1944 World War II: Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg and fellow conspirators are executed in Berlin, Germany for the July 20 plot to assassinate Adolf Hitler.
* 1949 The United States Senate ratifies the North Atlantic Treaty.
* 1954 First Indochina War: The Geneva Conference partitions Vietnam into North Vietnam and South Vietnam.
* 1959 Elijah Jerry "Pumpsie" Green becomes the first African-American to play for the Boston Red Sox, the last team to integrate. He came in as a pinch runner for Vic Wertz and stayed in as shortstop in a 2-1 loss to the Chicago White Sox.
* 1960 Sirimavo Bandaranaike is elected prime minister of Sri Lanka and becomes the first woman prime minister in the world.
* 1961 Mercury program: Mercury-Redstone 4 Mission Gus Grissom piloting Liberty Bell 7 becomes the second American to go into space (in a suborbital mission).
* 1964 Singapore Race Riot every year since then, Racial Harmony Day is celebrated on this day.
* 1969 Neil Armstrong and Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin become the first men to walk on the Moon, during the Apollo 11 mission.
* 1970 After 11 years of construction, the Aswan High Dam in Egypt is completed.
* 1972 Bloody Friday bombing by the Provisional Irish Republican Army around Belfast, Northern Ireland 22 bomb explosions, 9 people killed and 130 people seriously injured.
* 1973 In the Lillehammer affair in Norway, Israeli Mossad agents kill a waiter whom they mistakenly thought was involved in 1972's Munich Olympics Massacre.
* 1976 Christopher Ewart-Biggs British ambassador to the Republic of Ireland is assassinated by the Provisional IRA.
* 1977 The start of a four day long Libyan-Egyptian War takes place.
* 1983 The world's lowest temperature is recorded at Vostok Station, Antarctica at −89.2°C (−129°F).
* 1994 Tony Blair is declared the winner of the leadership election of the British Labour Party, paving the way for him to become Prime Minister in 1997.
* 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.
* 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 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 are captured and later convicted and imprisoned for long terms.
* 2007 Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, the last installment of the international record breaking series, is released.
* 2008 Bosnian-Serb war criminal Radovan Karadić is arrested in Serbia and is indicted by the UN's ICTY tribunal.
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This Date in History - July 21st
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* 356 BC Herostratus sets fire to the Temple of Artemis in Ephesus, one of the Seven Wonders of the World.
* 285 Diocletian appoints Maximian as Caesar and co-ruler.
* 365 A tsunami devastates the city of Alexandria, Egypt. The tsunami is caused by an earthquake estimated to be 8.0 on the Richter Scale. 5,000 people perished in the Alexandria, and 45,000 more died outside of the city.
* 1403 Battle of Shrewsbury: King Henry IV of England defeats rebels to the north of the county town of Shropshire, England.
* 1545 The first landing of French troops on the coast of the Isle of Wight during the French invasion of the Isle of Wight occurs.
* 1568 Eighty Years' War: Battle of Jemmingen Fernando Αlvarez de Toledo, Duke of Alva defeats Louis of Nassau.
* 1718 The Treaty of Passarowitz between the Ottoman Empire, Austria and the Republic of Venice is signed.
* 1774 Russo-Turkish War, 1768-1774: Russia and the Ottoman Empire sign the Treaty of Kuchuk-Kainarji ending the war.
* 1831 Inauguration of Lιopold 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 and ends in a victory for the Confederate army.
* 1865 In the market square of Springfield, Missouri, Wild Bill Hickok shoots and kills Davis Tutt 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 Old West.
* 1877 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, Pennsylvania stage a sympathy strike that is met with an assault by the state militia.
* 1904 Louis Rigolly, a Frenchman, becomes the first man to break the 100 mph (161 km/h) barrier on land. He drove a 15-liter Gobron-Brille in Ostend, Belgium.
* 1918 U-156 shells Nauset Beach, in Orleans, Massachusetts. This is the first time that the United States is shelled since the Mexican-American War.
* 1919 The dirigible Wingfoot Air Express crashes into the Illinois Trust and Savings Building in Chicago, killing 12 people.
* 1925 Scopes Trial: In Dayton, Tennessee, high school biology teacher John T. Scopes is found guilty of teaching evolution in class and fined $100.
* 1925 Sir Malcolm Campbell becomes the first man to break the 150 mph (241 km/h) land barrier at Pendine Sands in Wales. He drove a Sunbeam to a two-way average of 150.33 mph (242 km/h).
* 1944 World War II: Battle of Guam American troops land on Guam starting the battle. It would end on August 10.
* 1944 World War II: Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg and fellow conspirators are executed in Berlin, Germany for the July 20 plot to assassinate Adolf Hitler.
* 1949 The United States Senate ratifies the North Atlantic Treaty.
* 1954 First Indochina War: The Geneva Conference partitions Vietnam into North Vietnam and South Vietnam.
* 1959 Elijah Jerry "Pumpsie" Green becomes the first African-American to play for the Boston Red Sox, the last team to integrate. He came in as a pinch runner for Vic Wertz and stayed in as shortstop in a 2-1 loss to the Chicago White Sox.
* 1960 Sirimavo Bandaranaike is elected prime minister of Sri Lanka and becomes the first woman prime minister in the world.
* 1961 Mercury program: Mercury-Redstone 4 Mission Gus Grissom piloting Liberty Bell 7 becomes the second American to go into space (in a suborbital mission).
* 1964 Singapore Race Riot every year since then, Racial Harmony Day is celebrated on this day.
* 1969 Neil Armstrong and Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin become the first men to walk on the Moon, during the Apollo 11 mission.
* 1970 After 11 years of construction, the Aswan High Dam in Egypt is completed.
* 1972 Bloody Friday bombing by the Provisional Irish Republican Army around Belfast, Northern Ireland 22 bomb explosions, 9 people killed and 130 people seriously injured.
* 1973 In the Lillehammer affair in Norway, Israeli Mossad agents kill a waiter whom they mistakenly thought was involved in 1972's Munich Olympics Massacre.
* 1976 Christopher Ewart-Biggs British ambassador to the Republic of Ireland is assassinated by the Provisional IRA.
* 1977 The start of a four day long Libyan-Egyptian War takes place.
* 1983 The world's lowest temperature is recorded at Vostok Station, Antarctica at −89.2°C (−129°F).
* 1994 Tony Blair is declared the winner of the leadership election of the British Labour Party, paving the way for him to become Prime Minister in 1997.
* 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.
* 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 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 are captured and later convicted and imprisoned for long terms.
* 2007 Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, the last installment of the international record breaking series, is released.
* 2008 Bosnian-Serb war criminal Radovan Karadić is arrested in Serbia and is indicted by the UN's ICTY tribunal.
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