July 21

July 21 is the 202nd day (203rd in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian Calendar, with 165 days remaining.

Events

• 1718 - Treaty of Passarowitz signed.
• 1831 - Inauguration of Leopold I of Belgium, first king of Belgium.
• 1861 - Battle of 1st Bull Run
• 1873 - The first train robbery was pulled off by Jesse James and his gang.
• 1925 - John T. Scopes, a high school biology teacher, is found guilty of teaching evolution in class in Dayton, Tennessee, and fined $100. (see: Scopes Trial).
• 1960 - Sirima Bandaranaike[?] of Sri Lanka (then Ceylon) became the world's first woman prime minister.
• 1970 - Aswan High Dam in Egypt completed.

Births

• 1858 - Lovis Corinth[?], painter and graphic artist (+ 1925)
• 1870 - Emil Orlik[?], painter and graphic artist (+ 1932)
• 1893 - Hans Fallada[?], writer (+ 1947)
• 1899 - Hart Crane[?], poet (+ 1932)
• 1899 - Ernest Hemingway, author (+ 1961)
• 1911 - Marshall McLuhan, author (+ 1980)
• 1920 - Isaac Stern, violinist (+ 2001)
• 1924 - Don Knotts[?], actor
• 1926 - Norman Jewison, film director
• 1935 - Norbert Blüm[?], politician
• 1938 - Janet Reno, former Attorney General of the United States
• 1944 - Paul Wellstone, U.S. Senator: A Democrat from Minnesota
• 1948 - Cat Stevens (Yusuf Islam), singer
• 1948 - Garry Trudeau, cartoonist
• 1952 - Robin Williams, comedian
• 1957 - Jon Lovitz[?], comedian
• 1968 - Brandi Chastain, American soccer player
• 1978 - Josh Hartnett, actor

Deaths

• 1425 - Manuel II Palaeologus, Byzantine Emperor
• 1796 - Robert Burns, poet
• 1870 - Joseph Strauss[?], composer
• 1938 - Owen Wister[?], author
• 1948 - David Wark Griffith, film director
• 1967 - Basil Rathbone, actor
• 1968 - Ruth St. Denis[?], dancer, choreographer
• 1982 - Dave Garroway[?], television host
• 1998 - Alan Shepard, astronaut
• 1998 - Robert Young, actor

Holidays and observances

• Belgium: National holiday (1831 - inauguration of Leopold I[?], first king of Belgium))
• Bolivia: Martyrs' Day
• Guam: Liberation Day (1944)

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