July 21
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[edit] Events
- 1861 - American Civil War: First Battle of Bull Run - At Manassas Junction, Virginia, the first major battle of the war begins (Confederate victory).
- 1925 - Scopes Trial: In Dayton, Tennessee, high school biology teacher John T. Scopes is found guilty of teaching evolution in class and fined $100.
- 1949 - The U.S. Senate ratifies the North Atlantic Treaty.
- 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).
- 1969 - Neil A. 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 (PIRA) 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.
- 1977 - Start of a four day long Libyan-Egyptian War.
[edit] Births
- 1899 - Ernest Hemingway, American writer, Nobel laureate (d. 1961)
- 1938 - Janet Reno, 79th United States Attorney General
- 1939 - John Negroponte, 1st United States Director of National Intelligence
- 1944 - Paul Wellstone, American politician (d. 2002)
- 1946 - Kenneth Starr, American lawyer
[edit] Deaths
- 1796 - Robert Burns, Scottish poet (b. 1759)
- 1944 - Claus von Stauffenberg, German, leader of failed plot to assassinate Adolf Hitler, by execution (b. 1907)
- 1944 - Ludwig Beck, German Chief of Staff (b. 1880)
- 1998 - Alan Shepard, astronaut (b. 1923)
