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Events on the 21st of July in history

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21 Jul 0230 Pope Pontian succeeds Urban I as the eighteenth pope.
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21 Jul 0230 St Pontianus begins his reign as Catholic Pope
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21 Jul 0285 Diocletian appoints Maximian as Caesar and co-ruler.
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21 Jul 0356 The Temple of Artemis in Ephesus, one of the Seven Wonders of the World, is destroyed by arson.
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21 Jul 0365 Alexandria hit by Earthquake; about 50,000 die
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21 Jul 0365 A tsunami devastates the city of Alexandria, Egypt. The tsunami was caused by the Crete earthquake estimated to be 8.0 on the Richter scale. Five thousand people perished in Alexandria, and 45,000 more died outside the city.
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21 Jul 0866 John appointed Bishop of the kingdom
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21 Jul 0905 Holy Roman Catholic Emperor Louis III captured
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21 Jul 0976 Emperor Otto II gives Earl Leopold I, East Bavaria
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21 Jul 1242 Battle of Taillebourg : Louis IX of France puts an end to the revolt of his vassals Henry III of England and Hugh X of Lusignan.
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21 Jul 1320 Count Louis of Nevers marries 8-year old Daughter of Philips V
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21 Jul 1403 Battle of Shrewsbury: King Henry IV of England defeats rebels to the north of the county town of Shropshire, England.
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21 Jul 1542 Pope Paul III begins inquisition against Protestants (Sactum Officium)
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21 Jul 1545 The first landing of French troops on the coast of the Isle of Wight during the French invasion of the Isle of Wight.
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21 Jul 1568 Eighty Years' War: Battle of Jemmingen – Fernando Álvarez de Toledo, Duke of Alva defeats Louis of Nassau.
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21 Jul 1579 Mechelen surrenders to Duke of Parma
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21 Jul 1588 English fleet defeats Spanish armada
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21 Jul 1595 Alvara Mendana discovers Marquesas Island
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21 Jul 1645 Qing Dynasty regent Dorgon issues an edict ordering all Han Chinese men to shave their forehead and braid the rest of their hair into a queue identical to those of the Manchus.
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21 Jul 1656 The Raid on Malaga takes place during the Anglo-Spanish War.
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21 Jul 1669 John Lockes Constitution of English colony Carolina approved
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21 Jul 1718 The Treaty of Passarowitz between the Ottoman Empire, Austria and the Republic of Venice is signed.
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21 Jul 1730 States of Holland put death penalty on "sodomy"
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21 Jul 1749 Pieter Steyn becomes pension advisor of Holland
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21 Jul 1773 Pope Clemens XIV bans Jesuits
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21 Jul 1774 Russo-Turkish War (1768–1774): Russia and the Ottoman Empire sign the Treaty of Küçük Kaynarca ending the war.
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21 Jul 1798 Napoleon Bonaparte wins Battle of Pyramids in Egypt
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21 Jul 1825 Java Princess Dipo Negoro / Mangkubumi declare war on all non-islamics
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21 Jul 1831 Inauguration of Leopold I of Belgium, first king of the Belgians.
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21 Jul 1831 Belgium gains independence from Netherland, Leopold I made king
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21 Jul 1836 1st Canadian RR opens, between Laprairie & St John, Qu
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21 Jul 1846 Mormons found 1st English settlement in California (San Joaquin Valley)
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21 Jul 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.
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21 Jul 1861 1st major battle of Civil War ends (Bull Run), Va-South wins
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21 Jul 1865 In the market square of Springfield, Missouri, Wild Bill Hickok shoots and kills Davis Tutt in what is regarded as the first western showdown.
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21 Jul 1866 Cholera-epidemic kills hundreds in London
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21 Jul 1867 City Gardens on Folsom opens
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21 Jul 1873 At Adair, Iowa, Jesse James and the James-Younger Gang pull off the first successful train robbery in the American Old West.
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21 Jul 1873 Jesse James, 1st train robbery
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21 Jul 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.
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21 Jul 1880 Compressed air accident kills 20 workers on Hudson River tunnel, New York
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21 Jul 1896 National Federation of Afro-American Women & Colored Women's
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21 Jul 1897 Tate Gallery opens in England
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21 Jul 1898 Spain cedes Guam to US
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21 Jul 1900 Pope Leo XIII encyclical to the Greek-Melkite rite
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21 Jul 1902 Willis Carrier creates the first air conditioner in Buffalo, New York
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21 Jul 1904 After 13 years, the 4,607-mile Trans-Siberian railway is completed
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21 Jul 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.
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21 Jul 1904 Camille Jenatzy sets world auto speed record at 65.79 MPH
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21 Jul 1907 The passenger steamer SS Columbia collides with the steam schooner San Pedro off Shelter Cove, California, causing the Columbia to sink killing 88 people.
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21 Jul 1914 The Crown council of Romania decides for the country to remain neutral in World War I.
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21 Jul 1918 U-156 shells Nauset Beach, in Orleans, Massachusetts.
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21 Jul 1919 The dirigible Wingfoot Air Express crashes into the Illinois Trust and Savings Building in Chicago, Illinois, killing 12 people.
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21 Jul 1919 Dirigible crashes through bank skylight killing 13 (Chicago, Ill)
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21 Jul 1921 Indians (9) & Yankees (7) hit a record 16 doubles
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21 Jul 1923 Phillies score 12 in 6th & beat Cubs 17-4
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21 Jul 1925 Monkey Trial ends-John Scopes found guilty of teaching Darwinism
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21 Jul 1925 Scopes Trial: In Dayton, Tennessee, high school biology teacher John T. Scopes is found guilty of teaching evolution in class and fined $100.
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21 Jul 1925 Sir Malcolm Campbell, father of Donald Campbell, becomes the first man to break the 150 mph (241 km/h) land barrier at Pendine Sands in Wales. He drove a Sunbeam at a two-way average speed of 150.33 mph (242 km/h).
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21 Jul 1928 1st woman to win an olympic gold medal - Halina Knonpacka of Poland
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21 Jul 1928 H E Wood discovers asteroid #1096 Reunerta
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21 Jul 1930 US Veterans Administration forms
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21 Jul 1930 US Veterans Administration established
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21 Jul 1931 Reno race track, becomes 1st in US to use daily double wagering
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21 Jul 1933 Haifa Harbor in Palestine opens
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21 Jul 1934 113
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21 Jul 1935 C Jackson discovers asteroid #1358 Gaika
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21 Jul 1938 Paul Hindemith and Leonide Massines ballet premieres in London
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21 Jul 1940 VARA-management accepts Rost of Tonningens demands
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21 Jul 1940 Soviet Union annexes Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania
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21 Jul 1941 200 Jewish Torahs are burned in Ukraine
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21 Jul 1941 Himmler orders building of Majdanek concentration camp
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21 Jul 1942 8 die as coal waste heap slides in river valley near Oakwood, Virginia
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21 Jul 1944 British Premier Winston Churchill flies to France, meets Montgomery
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21 Jul 1944 General Koiso becomes Premier of Japan
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21 Jul 1944 US forces land on Guam to get rid of Japanese invaders
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21 Jul 1944 Von Kluge warns Hitler of impending collapse of front in Normandy
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21 Jul 1944 World War II: Battle of Guam – American troops land on Guam starting the battle. It would end on August 10.
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21 Jul 1944 World War II: Claus von Stauffenberg and fellow conspirators are executed in Berlin, Germany for the July 20 plot to assassinate Adolf Hitler.
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21 Jul 1944 US forces free Guam of Japanese invaders
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21 Jul 1945 Detroit Tigers and Philadelphia Athletics play 24 inning 1-1 tie
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21 Jul 1945 Detroit Tigers & Phila A's play 24 inning 1-1 tie
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21 Jul 1946 J
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21 Jul 1947 Indonesia begins 1st political election
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21 Jul 1948 WSPD TV channel 13 in Toledo, OH (NBC) begins broadcasting
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21 Jul 1949 Senate ratifies North Atlantic Treaty by a vote of 82-13 (NATO)
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21 Jul 1949 The United States Senate ratifies the North Atlantic Treaty.
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21 Jul 1951 Dalai Lama returns to Tibet
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21 Jul 1952 7.8 earthquake shakes Kern County California, 14 killed
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21 Jul 1952 Premier Ghavam es-Sultaneh of Persia, resigns
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21 Jul 1954 First Indochina War: The Geneva Conference partitions Vietnam into North Vietnam and South Vietnam.
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21 Jul 1954 At Geneva, France agrees to independence of North & South Vietnam
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21 Jul 1955 1st sub powered by liquid metal cooled reactor launched-Seawolf
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21 Jul 1956 Cin Red pitcher Brooks Lawrence loses after 13 straight wins
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21 Jul 1957 39th PGA Championship: Lionel Hebert at Miami Valley Golf Club - Dayton, Ohio
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21 Jul 1957 Marilynn Smith / Fay Crocker wins Hot Springs 4-Ball Golf Tournament
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21 Jul 1957 1st black to win a major US tennis tournament (Althea Gibson)
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21 Jul 1959 1st nuclear powered Merchant ship, NS Savannah, christened, Camden, New Jersey
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21 Jul 1959 Red Sox are last team to use a black player (Pumpsie Green)
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21 Jul 1959 NS Savannah, the first nuclear-powered cargo-passenger ship, is launched as a showcase for Dwight D. Eisenhower's "Atoms for Peace" initiative.
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21 Jul 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.
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21 Jul 1959 1st atomic powered merchant ship, Savannah, christened, Camden NJ
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21 Jul 1960 Francis Chichester arrive in New York aboard Gypsy Moth II, setting record of 40 days for a solo Atlantic crossing
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21 Jul 1960 The country of Katanga forms in Africa
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21 Jul 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).
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21 Jul 1961 Launch of Mercury 4 (Liberty Bell) with Grissom
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21 Jul 1962 160 civil right activists jailed after demonstration in Albany, Georgia
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21 Jul 1962 Battles on Chinese and Indies boundary
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21 Jul 1963 45th PGA Championship: Jack Nicklaus shoots a 279 at Dallas AC Dallas
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21 Jul 1964 Arnold Long takes 11 catches in the match for Surrey vs. Sussex
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21 Jul 1964 Mildred Simpson runs female world record marathon (3:19:33)
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21 Jul 1964 Netherlands last whaling ship Willem Barents Sea sold to Japan
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21 Jul 1965 Pakistan, Iran & Turkey sign Regional Co-Operation pact
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21 Jul 1966 Gemini X returns to Earth
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21 Jul 1968 50th PGA Championship: Julius Boros shoots a 281 at Pecan Valley, Texas
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21 Jul 1968 Carol Mann wins LPGA Buckeye Savings Golf Invitational
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21 Jul 1968 Jan Janssen wins Tour de France: 1st Dutchman
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21 Jul 1969 Neil Armstrong steps on the Moon at 2:56:15 AM (GMT)
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21 Jul 1969 Russia's Luna 15 impacts moon after 52 lunar orbits
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21 Jul 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 and Padres lose, 3-0
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21 Jul 1970 Huge Aswan Dam opens in Egypt
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21 Jul 1970 Libya orders confiscation of all Jewish property
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21 Jul 1970 After 11 years of construction, the Aswan High Dam in Egypt is completed.
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21 Jul 1972 27.5 cm rainfall at Fort Ripley, Minnesota (state record)
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21 Jul 1972 Bloody Friday: 22 IRA-bombs explode in Belfast
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21 Jul 1972 Dodgers release and end career of pitcher Hoyt Wilhelm
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21 Jul 1972 The Troubles: Bloody Friday – the Provisional IRA detonate 22 bombs in central Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom in the space of 80 minutes, killing nine and injuring 130.
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21 Jul 1972 2 passenger trains collide head-on killing 76 (Seville, Spain)
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21 Jul 1972 In New York, 57 murders occur in 24 hours
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21 Jul 1973 France performs nuclear Test at Muruora Atoll un the Pacific
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21 Jul 1973 In the Lillehammer affair in Norway, Israeli Mossad agents kill a waiter whom they mistakenly thought was involved in the 1972 Munich Olympics Massacre.
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21 Jul 1973 Hank Aaron becomes 2nd major leaguer to hit 700 HRs
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21 Jul 1973 USSR launches Mars 4 for fly-by (2600 km) of the red planet
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21 Jul 1974 Eddy Merckx wins his 5th Tour de France
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21 Jul 1974 House Judiciary approves 2 Articles of Impeachment against President Nixon
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21 Jul 1975 New York Met Felix Milan hits 4 singles; erased by Joe Torres 4 double plays
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21 Jul 1975 Billy Martin fired as Texas Rangers manager
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21 Jul 1976 "Guys & Dolls" opens at Broadway Theater NYC for 239 performances
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21 Jul 1976 Christopher Ewart-Biggs, the British ambassador to the Republic of Ireland, is assassinated by the Provisional IRA.
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21 Jul 1976 1st outbreak of "Legionnaire's Disease" kills 29 in Phila
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21 Jul 1977 Libyan-Egyptian border fights
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21 Jul 1977 Sri Lanka Premier Bandaranaike loses election
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21 Jul 1977 The start of the four-day-long Libyan–Egyptian War.
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21 Jul 1978 Bolivia milt coup under general Juan Pereda, President Hugo Banzer flees
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21 Jul 1978 US Postal Service & unions agree on a contract averting mail strike
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21 Jul 1978 World's strongest dog, 80-kg St Bernard, pulls 2909-kg load 27 m
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21 Jul 1979 108th British Golf Open: Seve Ballesteros shoots a 283 at Royal Lytham
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21 Jul 1979 N Chernykh discovers asteroids #2585 Irpedina & #3298
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21 Jul 1979 National Women's Hall of Fame (Seneca Falls, NY) dedicated
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21 Jul 1980 Jean-Claude Droyer climbs the Eiffel Tower in 2 hrs 18 mins
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21 Jul 1981 Australia set 130 to win, all out 111 at Headingley Willis 8-43
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21 Jul 1983 Polish government ends 19 months of martial law
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21 Jul 1983 The world's lowest temperature in an inhabited location is recorded at Vostok Station, Antarctica at −89.2 °C (−128.6 °F).
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21 Jul 1983 Storm cuts short Diana Ross' free concert in NY's Central Park
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21 Jul 1983 US announces Lebanon freed American hostage David Dodge
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21 Jul 1984 1st documented case of a robot killing a human in US
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21 Jul 1984 Marita Koch of E Germany sets world women's mark for 200m, 21.71s
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21 Jul 1985 "Leader of the Pack" closes at Ambassador Theater NYC after 120 performances
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21 Jul 1985 114th British Golf Open: Sandy Lyle shoots a 282 at Royal St. George
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21 Jul 1985 Amina Fakir (Detroit), 23, crowned 18th Miss Black America
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21 Jul 1985 Bernard Hinault wins his 5th and last Tour de France
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21 Jul 1985 Judy Clark wins LPGA Boston Five Golf Classic
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21 Jul 1986 Barbara Palacios Teyde, 22, of Venezuela, crowned 35th Miss Universe
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21 Jul 1986 Pleasure Island plans unveiled
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21 Jul 1987 Kristi Addis, of Mississippi, crowned 5th Miss Teen USA
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21 Jul 1988 Mass Gov Michael Dukakis accepts Democratic nomination for President
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21 Jul 1988 ESA's Ariane-3 launches 2 communications satellites (1 Indian)
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21 Jul 1989 Mike Tyson KOs Carl Williams in 1:33 for heavyweight boxing title
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21 Jul 1989 Eastern Airlines submits a reorganization plan to creditors
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21 Jul 1989 Greg LeMond (US) wins Tour de France in fastest time
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21 Jul 1989 Mike Tyson TKOs Carl "the Truth" Williams in 1:33 of 1st round
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21 Jul 1990 Goodwill Games opens in Seattle Washington
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21 Jul 1990 Pink Floyds' "The Wall" is performed where the Berlin Wall once stood
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21 Jul 1991 120th British Golf Open: Ian Baker-Finch shoots 272 at Royal Birkdale
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21 Jul 1991 Betsy King wins LPGA JAL Big Apple Golf Classic
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21 Jul 1991 Ferguson Jenkins, Gaylord Perry, Rod Carew, Tony Lazzeri, and Bill Veeck are elected into the Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, New York
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21 Jul 1991 Sharmell Sullivan (Gary Indiana), 20, crowned 23rd Miss Black America
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21 Jul 1993 Angela Kennedy swims world record 50 m butterfly stroke (26.93)
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21 Jul 1995 Brian Lara completes a pair for West Indians vs. Kent
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21 Jul 1995 Kansas City Royals set club-record of 22 singles in 15 innings
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21 Jul 1995 Third Taiwan Strait Crisis: The People's Liberation Army begins firing missiles into the waters north of Taiwan.
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21 Jul 1996 125th British Golf Open: Tom Lehman shoots a 271 at Royal Lytham
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21 Jul 1996 Wayne Gretzky signs a 2 year deal with New York Rangers
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21 Jul 1997 200-year-old USS Constitution sails under its own power
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21 Jul 1997 New York Yank Mike Whiton held in Milwaukee on charges of sexual assault
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21 Jul 2008 Ram Baran Yadav is declared the first president of Nepal.
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21 Jul 2011 NASA's Space Shuttle program ends with the landing of Space Shuttle Atlantis on mission STS-135.
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21 Jul 2012 Erden Eruç completes the first solo human-powered circumnavigation of the world.
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