Notable Historical Events on July 21st
July 21st Historical Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
356 |
Herostratus sets fire to the Temple of Artemis in Ephesus, one of the Seven Wonders of the World. |
BC AD | |
230 |
St Pontianus begins his reign as Catholic Pope |
285 |
Diocletian appoints Maximian as Caesar, co-ruler. |
365 |
Crete Earthquake followed by tsunami around the Eastern Mediterranean allegedly destroys Alexandria |
866 |
John appointed bishop of the kingdom |
905 |
Holy Roman Catholic emperor Louis III captured |
976 |
Emperor Otto II gives earl Leopold I, East Bavaria |
1403 |
Battle of Shrewsbury fought by Percys against King Henry IV |
1542 |
Pope Paul III begins inquisition against Protestants (Sactum Officium) |
1545 |
The first landing of French troops onto the coast of the Isle of Wight during the French invasion of the Isle of Wight occurs. |
1568 |
Battle at Jemmingen: Alva's troops beat Dutch rebellion |
1579 |
Mechelen surrenders to Duke of Parma |
1588 |
First engagement between the English fleet and the Spanish Armada off the Eddystone Rocks |
1595 |
Alvara Mendana discovers Marquesas Island |
1669 |
John Locke's Constitution of English colony Carolina approved |
1718 |
The Treaty of Passarowitz between the Ottoman Empire, Austria and the Republic of Venice is signed. |
1730 |
States of Holland put death penalty on "sodomy" |
1749 |
Pieter Steyn becomes pension advisor of Holland |
1773 |
Pope Clemens XIV bans Jesuits |
1774 |
Russo-Turkish War, 1768-1774: Russia and the Ottoman Empire sign Treaty of Kuchuk-Kainarji ending the war. |
1798 |
Napoleon Bonaparte wins Battle of Pyramids in Egypt |
1825 |
Java princess Dipo Negoro/Mangkubumi declare war on all non-islamics |
1831 |
Belgium gains independence from Netherlands, Leopold I made king |
1836 |
1st Canadian RR opens, between Laprairie & St John, Quebec |
1846 |
Mormons found 1st English settlement in California (San Joaquin Valley) |
1861 |
1st major battle of Civil War ends (Bull Run), Va - South wins |
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. |
1866 |
Cholera epidemic kills hundreds in London |
1867 |
City Gardens on Folsom opens |
1873 |
Jesse James & James Younger gang's 1st train robbery (Adair Iowa) |
1877 |
-27] US army breaks railroad strike |
1880 |
Compressed air accident kills 20 workers on Hudson River tunnel, NY |
1884 |
1st Test Cricket match played at Lord's |
1896 |
National Federation of Afro-American Women & Colored Women's |
1896 |
13th Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Charlotte Sterry beats A Pickering (6-2 6-3) |
1896 |
20th Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Harold Mahony beats W Baddeley (6-2 6-8 5-7 8-6 6-3) |
1897 |
Tate Gallery opens in England |
1898 |
Spain cedes Guam to USA |
1900 |
Pope Leo XIII encyclical to Greek-Melkite rite |
1904 |
After 13 years, the 4,607-mile Trans-Siberian railway is completed |
1904 |
Camille Jenatzy sets world auto speed record at 65.79 MPH |
1913 |
The Egyptian government announces a new constitutional system and electoral law |
1915 |
Wilson sends the third Lusitania note, warning Germany that future infringement of American rights will be deemed 'deliberately unfriendly' |
1917 |
Russian Revolution: Socialist Alexander Kerensky becomes Russian Prime Minister |
1918 |
U-156 shells Nauset Beach, in Orleans, Massachusetts. |
1919 |
Anthony Fokker's establishes airplane factory at Hamburg & Amsterdam |
1919 |
Dirigible crashes through bank skylight killing 13 (Chicago, Ill) |
1921 |
Indians (9) & Yankees (7) hit a record 16 doubles |
1923 |
Phillies score 12 in 6th & beat Cubs 17-4 |
1925 |
"Monkey Trial" ends - John Scopes found guilty of teaching Darwinism |
1930 |
110°F (43°C) at Millsboro, Delaware (state record) |
1930 |
US Veterans Administration forms |
1931 |
Reno race track, becomes 1st in US to use daily double wagering |
1933 |
Haifa Harbor in Palestine opens |
1934 |
113°F (45°C), near Gallipolis, Ohio (state record) |
1938 |
Paul Hindemith & Leonide Massines ballet premieres in London |
1940 |
Soviet Union annexes Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania |
1940 |
VARA-management accepts Rost of Tonningens demands |
1941 |
200 Jewish Torahs are burned in Ukraine |
1941 |
Himmler orders building of Majdanek concentration camp |
1942 |
8 die as coal waste heap slides in river valley near Oakwood, Va |
1944 |
British premier Winston Churchill flies to France, meets Montgomery |
1944 |
General Koiso becomes premier of Japan |
1944 |
US forces land on Guam to get rid of Japanese invaders |
1944 |
Field Marshal Günther von Kluge warns Hitler of impending collapse of front in Normandy |
1945 |
Detroit Tigers & Phila A's play 24 inning 1-1 tie |
1946 |
Jesus T Pinerol becomes 1st native born Puerto Rican governor |
1947 |
Indonesia begins 1st political election |
1948 |
WSPD TV channel 13 in Toledo, OH (NBC) begins broadcasting |
1949 |
Senate ratifies North Atlantic Treaty by a vote of 82-13 (NATO) |
1951 |
Dalai Lama returns to Tibet |
1952 |
7.8 earthquake shakes Kern County California, 14 killed |
1952 |
Premier Ghavam es-Sultaneh of Persia, resigns |
1954 |
At Geneva, France agrees to independence of North & South Vietnam |
1955 |
USS Seawolf launched, 1st submarine powered by liquid metal cooled nuclear reactor |
1956 |
Cin Red pitcher Brooks Lawrence loses after 13 straight wins |
1956 |
US performs atmospheric nuclear Test at Enwetak |
1957 |
1st black to win a major US tennis tournament (Althea Gibson) |
1957 |
39th PGA Championship: Lionel Hebert at Miami Valley GC Dayton Ohio |
1957 |
Marilynn Smith/Fay Crocker wins Hot Springs 4-Ball Golf Tournament |
1959 |
1st nuclear powered merchant ship, NS Savannah, named, Camden NJ |
1959 |
Red Sox are last team to use a black player (Pumpsie Green) |
1960 |
Country of Katanga forms in Africa |
1960 |
In Sri Lanka (then Ceylon) Sirima Bandaranaike is world's 1st woman PM |
1960 |
Francis Chichester arrive in NY aboard Gypsy Moth II, setting record of 40 days for a solo Atlantic crossing |
1961 |
Launch of Mercury 4 (Liberty Bell) with Grissom |
1962 |
160 civil right activists jailed after demonstration in Albany Ga |
1962 |
Battles on Chinese & Indies boundary |
1963 |
45th PGA Championship: Jack Nicklaus shoots a 279 at Dallas AC Dallas |
1964 |
Arnold Long takes 11 catches in the match for Surrey v Sussex |
1964 |
Mildred Simpson runs female world record marathon (3:19:33) |
1964 |
Last Dutch whaling ship Willem Barents Sea sold to Japan |
1965 |
Pakistan, Iran & Turkey sign Regional Co-Operation pact |
1966 |
Gemini X returns to Earth |
1966 |
USSR performs nuclear Test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
1968 |
50th PGA Championship: Julius Boros shoots a 281 at Pecan Valley TX |
1968 |
Carol Mann wins LPGA Buckeye Savings Golf Invitational |
1968 |
Jan Janssen wins Tour de France: 1st Dutchman |
1969 |
Neil Armstrong steps on Moon at 2:56:15 AM (GMT) |
1969 |
Russia's Luna 15 impacts moon after 52 lunar orbits |
1970 |
Huge Aswan Dam opens in Egypt |
1970 |
Libya orders confiscation of all Jewish property |
1970 |
USSR performs nuclear Test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
1970 |
Clay Kirby has a no-hitter going for 8 inn, but is lifted for a pinch hitter, Reliever Jack Baldschun gives up 3 hits & Padres lose, 3-0 |
1971 |
US performs nuclear Test at Nevada Test Site |
1971 |
Sam Giancana returns to the United States after spending seven years of exile in Mexico |
1972 |
2 passenger trains collide head-on killing 76 (Seville, Spain) |
1972 |
27.5 cm rainfall at Fort Ripley, Minnesota (state record) |
1972 |
Bloody Friday: within the space of seventy-five minutes, the Provisional Irish Republican Army explode twenty-two bombs in Belfast; six civilians, two British Army soldiers and one UDA volunteer were killed, 130 injured |
1972 |
Dodgers release & end career of pitcher Hoyt Wilhelm |
1972 |
In New York 57 murders occur in 24 hours |
1973 |
Braves Hank Aaron hits Ken Brett's fastball for his 700th HR |
1973 |
France performs nuclear Test at Muruora Atoll un the Pacific |
1973 |
USSR launches Mars 4 for fly-by (2600 km) of red planet |
1974 |
29th US Women's Open Golf Championship won by Sandra Haynie |
1974 |
Eddy Merckx wins his 5th Tour de France |
1974 |
US House Judiciary approves two Articles of Impeachment against President Richard Nixon |
1975 |
Billy Martin fired as Texas Rangers manager |
1975 |
NY Met Félix Millán hits 4 singles; erased by Joe Torres 4 double plays |
1976 |
"Guys & Dolls" opens at Broadway Theater NYC for 239 performances |
1976 |
1st outbreak of "Legionnaire's Disease" kills 29 in Philadelphia |
1976 |
Christopher Ewart-Biggs, British ambassador to the Republic of Ireland, is assassinated by the Provisional IRA. |
1976 |
Christopher Ewart Biggs (the British Ambassador to Ireland) and his secretary Judith Cook are assassinated by a bomb planted in Mr Biggs' car in Dublin |
1977 |
Libyan-Egyptian border fights |
1977 |
Sri Lanka premier Bandaranaike loses election |
1978 |
Bolivia military coup under general Juan Pereda, president Hugo Banzer flees |
1978 |
US Postal Service & unions agree on a contract averting mail strike |
1978 |
World's strongest dog, 80-kg St Bernard, pulls 2909-kg load 27 m |
1979 |
108th British Golf Open: Seve Ballesteros shoots a 283 at Royal Lytham |
1979 |
National Women's Hall of Fame (Seneca Falls, NY) dedicated |
1980 |
Jean-Claude Droyer climbs Eiffel Tower in 2 hrs 18 mins |
1981 |
Australia set 130 to win, all out 111 at Headingley Willis 8-43 |
1982 |
France performs nuclear Test at Muruora Island |
1983 |
Polish government ends 19 months of martial law |
1983 |
Storm cuts short Diana Ross' free concert in NY's Central Park |
1983 |
US announces Lebanon freed American hostage David Dodge |
1984 |
Marita Koch of E Germany sets world women's mark for 200m, 21.71s |
1984 |
USSR performs underground nuclear Test |
1985 |
"Leader of the Pack" closes at Ambassador Theater NYC after 120 perfs |
1985 |
114th British Golf Open: Sandy Lyle shoots a 282 at Royal St George |
1985 |
Amina Fakir (Detroit), 23, crowned 18th Miss Black America |
1985 |
Bernard Hinault wins his 5th & last Tour de France |
1985 |
Judy Clark wins LPGA Boston Five Golf Classic |
1986 |
Barbara Palacios Teyde, 22, of Venezuela, crowned 35th Miss Universe |
1986 |
Pleasure Island plans unveiled |
1987 |
Kristi Addis, of Mississippi, crowned 5th Miss Teen USA |
1988 |
ESA's Ariane-3 launches 2 communications satellites (1 Indian) |
1988 |
Massachusetts Governor Michael Dukakis accepts Democratic nomination for president |
1989 |
Eastern Airlines submits a reorganization plan to creditors |
1989 |
Greg LeMond (US) wins Tour de France in fastest time |
1989 |
Mike Tyson KOs Carl Williams in 1:33 for heavyweight boxing title |
1990 |
Goodwill Games opens in Seattle Wash |
1990 |
Pink Floyds' "Wall" is performed where Berlin Wall once stood |
1991 |
120th British Golf Open: Ian Baker-Finch shoots 272 at Royal Birkdale |
1991 |
Betsy King wins LPGA JAL Big Apple Golf Classic |
1991 |
Sharmell Sullivan (Gary Indiana), 20, crowned 23rd Miss Black America |
1991 |
Ferguson Jenkins, Gaylord Perry, Rod Carew, Tony Lazzeri, & Bill Veeck are elected into the Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, NY |
1993 |
Angela Kennedy swims world record 50 m butterfly stroke (26.93) |
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 |
Brian Lara completes a pair for West Indians v Kent |
1995 |
KC Royals set club-record of 22 singles in 15 innings |
1996 |
125th British Golf Open: Tom Lehman shoots a 271 at Royal Lytham |
1996 |
Dottie Pepper wins LPGA Friendly's Golf Classic |
1996 |
Wayne Gretzky signs a 2 year deal with NY Rangers |
1997 |
NY Yank Mike Whiton held in Milwaukee on charges of sexual assault |
1997 |
The fully restored USS Constitution (aka "Old Ironsides") celebrates her 200th birthday, 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. |
2002 |
131st British Golf Open: Ernie Els shoots a 278 at Muirfield Golf Links |
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 final book in the bestselling Harry Potter series is released. |
2008 |
Bosnian-Serb war criminal Radovan Karadžić is arrested in Serbia and is indicted by the UN's ICTY tribunal. |
2011 |
NASA's Space Shuttle program ends with the landing of Space Shuttle Atlantis on mission STS-135. |
2013 |
15 Egyptian Army soldiers are killed after their bus crashes into a truck on the Mediterranean Coast Highway |
2013 |
12 people are killed in a clash between two Muslim families in Lanao del Sur, Philippines |
2013 |
142nd British Golf Open: Phil Mickelson shoots a 281 at Muirfield Golf Links |
2016 |
Eighteen protesters arrested in Cleveland after scuffle with police |
2016 |
At least 5 arrested at flag-burning protest outside RNC |
2016 |
US election: Ted Cruz booed for failing to back Donald Trump |
2017 |
'Juice' will be loose: OJ Simpson granted parole in robbery |
2018 |
Seventeen dead after Missouri tourist boat sinks in storm |
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