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On this day - July 21
The Temple of Artemis in Ephesus, one of the Seven Wonders of the ...
230 — Pope Pontian succeeds Urban I as the eighteenth pope. After ...
285 — Diocletian appoints Maximian as Caesar and co-ruler.
365 — The 365 Crete earthquake affected the Greek island of Crete ...
905 — King Berengar I of Italy and a hired Hungarian army defeats the ...
1242 — Battle of Taillebourg: Louis IX of France puts an end to the ...
1403 — Battle of Shrewsbury: King Henry IV of England defeats rebels ...
1545 — The first landing of French troops on the coast of the Isle of ...
1568 — Eighty Years' War: Battle of Jemmingen: Fernando Álvarez ...
1645 — Qing dynasty regent Dorgon issues an edict ordering all Han ...
1656 — The Raid on Málaga takes place during the Anglo-Spanish War.
1674 — A Dutch assault on the French island of Martinique is repulsed ...
1718 — The Treaty of Passarowitz between the Ottoman Empire, Austria ...
1774 — Russo-Turkish War (1768–74): Russia and the Ottoman Empire ...
1798 — French campaign in Egypt and Syria: Napoleon's forces ...
1831 — Inauguration of Leopold I of Belgium, first king of the ...
1861 — American Civil War: First Battle of Bull Run: At Manassas ...
1865 — In the market square of Springfield, Missouri, Wild Bill ...
1873 — At Adair, Iowa, Jesse James and the James–Younger Gang pull ...
1877 — After rioting by Baltimore and Ohio Railroad workers and the ...
1904 — Louis Rigolly, a Frenchman, becomes the first man to break the ...
1907 — The passenger steamer SS Columbia sinks after colliding with ...
1919 — The dirigible Wingfoot Air Express crashes into the Illinois ...
1920 — The "Belfast Pogrom" begins two years of violence ...
1925 — Malcolm Campbell becomes the first man to exceed 150 mph (241 ...
1925 — Scopes Trial: In Dayton, Tennessee, high school biology ...
1936 — Spanish Civil War: The Central Committee of Antifascist ...
1944 — World War II: Claus von Stauffenberg and four fellow ...
1944 — World War II: Battle of Guam: American troops land on Guam, ...
1949 — The United States Senate ratifies the North Atlantic Treaty.
1951 — Canadian Pacific Air Lines Flight 3505 disappears while flying ...
1952 — The 7.3 Mw Kern County earthquake strikes Southern California ...
1954 — First Indochina War: The Geneva Conference partitions Vietnam ...
1959 — Elijah Jerry "Pumpsie" Green becomes the first ...
1959 — NS Savannah, the first nuclear-powered cargo-passenger ship, ...
1960 — Sirimavo Bandaranaike is sworn in as prime minister of Ceylon, ...
1961 — Alaska Airlines Flight 779 crashes near Shemya Air Force Base ...
1961 — Mercury program: Mercury-Redstone 4 Mission: Gus Grissom ...
1964 — A series of racial riots break out in Singapore. In the next ...
1969 — Apollo program: At 02:56 UTC, astronaut Neil Armstrong becomes ...
1970 — After 11 years of construction, the Aswan High Dam in Egypt is ...
1972 — The Troubles: Bloody Friday: The Provisional IRA detonate 22 ...
1973 — In Lillehammer, Norway, Mossad agents kill a waiter whom they ...
1976 — Christopher Ewart-Biggs, the British ambassador to the ...
1977 — The start of the four-day-long Libyan–Egyptian War.
1979 — Jay Silverheels, a Mohawk actor, becomes the first Native ...
1983 — The world's lowest temperature in an inhabited location ...
1990 — Taiwan's military police forces mainland Chinese illegal ...
1995 — Third Taiwan Strait Crisis: The People's Liberation Army ...
2001 — At the conclusion of a fireworks display on Okura Beach in ...
2005 — Four attempted bomb attacks by Islamist extremists disrupt ...
2008 — Ram Baran Yadav is declared the first President of Nepal.
2010 — U.S. President Barack Obama signs the Dodd–Frank Wall Street ...
2011 — NASA's Space Shuttle program ends with the landing of ...
2012 — Erden Eruç completes the first solo human-powered ...
2019 — Yuen Long attack or "721 incident" in Hong Kong. ...
2023 — The Barbenheimer phenomenon begins as two major motion ...
2024 — U.S. President Joe Biden announces he will no longer seek a ...
2025 — A Bangladesh Air Force Chengdu FT-7BGI crashes shortly after ...