July 21 in History

Historical Events on July 21

285 Diocletian appoints Maximian as Caesar and co-ruler.

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.

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.

1919 The dirigible Wingfoot Air Express crashes into the Illinois Trust and Savings Building in Chicago, killing 12 people.

1944 World War II: Battle of Guam: American troops land on Guam, starting a battle that will end on August 10.

1954 First Indochina War: The Geneva Conference partitions Vietnam into North Vietnam and South Vietnam.

1969 At 02:56 UTC, astronaut Neil Armstrong becomes the first person to walk on the Moon.

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.

2011 NASA's Space Shuttle program ends with the landing of Space Shuttle Atlantis on mission STS-135 at NASA's Kennedy Space Center.

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Famous Birthdays on July 21

1899 Ernest Hemingway

1911 Marshall McLuhan

1948 Cat Stevens

1951 Robin Williams

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Famous Deaths on July 21

1688 James Butler, 1st Duke of Ormonde

1796 Robert Burns

1998 Alan Shepard

2004 Jerry Goldsmith

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