What events in history happened on July 21st?

Answer 1

356 BC - Herostratus sets fire to the Temple of Artemis in Ephesus, one of the Seven Wonders of the World.

230 -St Pontianus begins his reign as Catholic Pope

285 -Diocletian appoints Maximian as Caesar, co-ruler.

365 -Crete Earthquake followed by tsunami around the Eastern Mediterranean allegedly destroys Alexandria

866 -John appointed bishop of the kingdom

905 -Holy Roman Catholic emperor Louis III captured

976 -Emperor Otto II gives earl Leopold I, East Bavaria

1542 - Pope Paul III begins inquisition against Protestants (Sactum Officium)

1545 - The first landing of French troops onto the coast of the Isle of Wight during the French invasion of the Isle of Wight occurs.

1568 - Battle at Jemmingen: Alva's troops beat Dutch rebellion

1579 - Mechelen surrenders to duke of Parma

1588 - First engagement between the English fleet and the Spanish Armada off the Eddystone Rocks

1595 - Alvara Mendana discovers Marquesas Island

1669 - John Lockes Constitution of English colony Carolina approved

1718 - The Treaty of Passarowitz between the Ottoman Empire, Austria and the Republic of Venice is signed.

1730 - States of Holland put death penalty on "sodomy"

1749 - Pieter Steyn becomes pension advisor of Holland

1773 - Pope Clemens XIV bans Jesuits

1774 - Russo-Turkish War, 1768-1774: Russia and the Ottoman Empire sign Treaty of Kuchuk-Kainarji ending the war.

1798 - Napoleon Bonaparte wins Battle of Pyramids in Egypt

1825 - Java princess Dipo Negoro/Mangkubumi declare war on all non-islamics

1831 - Belgium gains independence from Netherlands, Leopold I made king

1836 - 1st Canadian RR opens, between Laprairie & St John, Quebec

1846 - Mormons found 1st English settlement in California (San Joaquin Valley)

1861 - 1st major battle of Civil War ends (Bull Run), Va - South wins

1865 - In the market square of Springfield, Missouri, Wild Bill Hickok shoots and kills Davis Tutt in what is regarded as the first true western showdown.

1866 - Cholera epidemic kills hundreds in London

1867 - City Gardens on Folsom opens

1873 - Jesse James & James Younger gang's 1st train robbery (Adair Iowa)

1877 - -27] US army breaks railroad strike

1880 - Compressed air accident kills 20 workers on Hudson River tunnel, NY

1884 - 1st Test Cricket match played at Lord's

1896 - National Federation of Afro-American Women & Colored Women's

1896 - 13th Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Charlotte Sterry beats A Pickering (6-2 6-3)

1896 - 20th Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Harold Mahony beats W Baddeley (6-2 6-8 5-7 8-6 6-3)

1897 - Tate Gallery opens in England

1898 - Spain cedes Guam to US

1900 - Pope Leo XIII encyclical to Greek-Melkite rite

1904 - After 13 years, the 4,607-mile Trans-Siberian railway is completed

1904 - Camille Jenatzy sets world auto speed record at 65.79 MPH

1918 - U-156 shells Nauset Beach, in Orleans, Massachusetts.

1919 - Anthony Fokker's establishes airplane factory at Hamburg & Amsterdam

1919 - Dirigible crashes through bank skylight killing 13 (Chicago, Ill)

1921 - Indians (9) & Yankees (7) hit a record 16 doubles

1923 - Phillies score 12 in 6th & beat Cubs 17-4

1925 - Monkey Trial ends-John Scopes found guilty of teaching Darwinism

1930 - 110°F (43°C) at Millsboro, Delaware (state record)

1930 - US Veterans Administration forms

1931 - Reno race track, becomes 1st in US to use daily double wagering

1933 - Haifa Harbor in Palestine opens

1934 - 113°F (45°C), near Gallipolis, Ohio (state record)

1938 - Paul Hindemith & Leonide Massines ballet premieres in London

1940 - Soviet Union annexes Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania

1940 - VARA-management accepts Rost of Tonningens demands

1941 - 200 Jewish Torahs are burned in Ukraine

1941 - Himmler orders building of Majdanek concentration camp

1942 - 8 die as coal waste heap slides in river valley near Oakwood, Va

1944 - British premier Winston Churchill flies to France, meets Montgomery

1944 - General Koiso becomes premier of Japan

1944 - US forces land on Guam to get rid of Japanese invaders

1944 - Von Kluge warns Hitler of impending collapse of front in Normandy

1945 - Detroit Tigers & Phila A's play 24 inning 1-1 tie

1946 - Jesus T Pinerol becomes 1st native born Puerto Rican governor

1947 - Indonesia begins 1st political election

1948 - WSPD TV channel 13 in Toledo, OH (NBC) begins broadcasting

1949 - Senate ratifies North Atlantic Treaty by a vote of 82-13 (NATO)

1951 - Dalai Lama returns to Tibet

1952 - 7.8 earthquake shakes Kern County California, 14 killed

1952 - Premier Ghavam es-Sultaneh of Persia, resigns

1954 - At Geneva, France agrees to independence of North & South Vietnam

1955 - 1st sub powered by liquid metal cooled reactor launched-Seawolf

1956 - Cin Red pitcher Brooks Lawrence loses after 13 straight wins

1956 - US performs atmospheric nuclear Test at Enwetak

1957 - 1st black to win a major US tennis tournament (Althea Gibson)

1957 - 39th PGA Championship: Lionel Hebert at Miami Valley GC Dayton Ohio

1957 - Marilynn Smith/Fay Crocker wins Hot Springs 4-Ball Golf Tournament

1959 - 1st nuclear powered merchant ship, NS Savannah, christened, Camden NJ

1959 - Red Sox are last team to use a black player (Pumpsie Green)

1960 - Country of Katanga forms in Africa

1960 - In Sri Lanka (then Ceylon) Sirima Bandaranaike is world's 1st woman PM

1960 - Francis Chichester arrive in NY aboard Gypsy Moth II, setting record of 40 days for a solo Atlantic crossing

1961 - Launch of Mercury 4 (Liberty Bell) with Grissom

1962 - 160 civil right activists jailed after demonstration in Albany Ga

1962 - Battles on Chinese & Indies boundary

1963 - 45th PGA Championship: Jack Nicklaus shoots a 279 at Dallas AC Dallas

1964 - Arnold Long takes 11 catches in the match for Surrey v Sussex

1964 - Mildred Simpson runs female world record marathon (3:19:33)

1964 - Neth last whaling ship Willem Barents Sea sold to Japan

1965 - Pakistan, Iran & Turkey sign Regional Co-Operation pact

1966 - Gemini X returns to Earth

1966 - USSR performs nuclear Test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR

1968 - 50th PGA Championship: Julius Boros shoots a 281 at Pecan Valley TX

1968 - Carol Mann wins LPGA Buckeye Savings Golf Invitational

1968 - Jan Janssen wins Tour de France: 1st Dutchman

1969 - Neil Armstrong steps on Moon at 2:56:15 AM (GMT)

1969 - Russia's Luna 15 impacts moon after 52 lunar orbits

1970 - Huge Aswan Dam opens in Egypt

1970 - Libya orders confiscation of all Jewish property

1970 - USSR performs nuclear Test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR

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 & Padres lose, 3-0

1971 - US performs nuclear Test at Nevada Test Site

1972 - 2 passenger trains collide head-on killing 76 (Seville, Spain)

1972 - 27.5 cm rainfall at Fort Ripley, Minnesota (state record)

1972 - Bloody Friday: 22 IRA-bombs explode in Belfast

1972 - Dodgers release & end career of pitcher Hoyt Wilhelm

1972 - In NY, 57 murders occur in 24 hours

1973 - Braves Hank Aaron hits Ken Brett's fastball for his 700th HR

1973 - France performs nuclear Test at Muruora Atoll un the Pacific

1973 - USSR launches Mars 4 for fly-by (2600 km) of red planet

1974 - 29th US Women's Open Golf Championship won by Sandra Haynie

1974 - Eddy Merckx wins his 5th Tour de France

1974 - House Judiciary approves 2 Articles of Impeachment against Pres Nixon

1975 - Billy Martin fired as Texas Rangers manager

1975 - NY Met Félix Millán hits 4 singles; erased by Joe Torres 4 double plays

1976 - "Guys & Dolls" opens at Broadway Theater NYC for 239 performances

1976 - 1st outbreak of "Legionnaire's Disease" kills 29 in Phila

1976 - Christopher Ewart-Biggs British ambassador to the Republic of Ireland is assassinated by the Provisional IRA.

1977 - Libyan-Egyptian border fights

1977 - Sri Lanka premier Bandaranaike loses election

1978 - Bolivia milt coup under general Juan Pereda, pres Hugo Banzer flees

1978 - US Postal Service & unions agree on a contract averting mail strike

1978 - World's strongest dog, 80-kg St Bernard, pulls 2909-kg load 27 m

1979 - 108th British Golf Open: Seve Ballesteros shoots a 283 at Royal Lytham

1979 - National Women's Hall of Fame (Seneca Falls, NY) dedicated

1980 - Jean-Claude Droyer climbs Eiffel Tower in 2 hrs 18 mins

1981 - Australia set 130 to win, all out 111 at Headingley Willis 8-43

1982 - France performs nuclear Test at Muruora Island

1983 - Polish government ends 19 months of martial law

1983 - Storm cuts short Diana Ross' free concert in NY's Central Park

1983 - US announces Lebanon freed American hostage David Dodge

1984 - 1st documented case of a robot killing a human in US

1984 - Marita Koch of E Germany sets world women's mark for 200m, 21.71s

1984 - USSR performs underground nuclear Test

1985 - "Leader of the Pack" closes at Ambassador Theater NYC after 120 perfs

1985 - 114th British Golf Open: Sandy Lyle shoots a 282 at Royal St George

1985 - Amina Fakir (Detroit), 23, crowned 18th Miss Black America

1985 - Bernard Hinault wins his 5th & last Tour de France

1985 - Judy Clark wins LPGA Boston Five Golf Classic

1986 - Barbara Palacios Teyde, 22, of Venezuela, crowned 35th Miss Universe

1986 - Pleasure Island plans unveiled

1987 - Kristi Addis, of Mississippi, crowned 5th Miss Teen USA

1988 - ESA's Ariane-3 launches 2 communications satellites (1 Indian)

1988 - Mass Gov Michael Dukakis accepts Democratic nomination for president

1989 - Eastern Airlines submits a reorganization plan to creditors

1989 - Greg LeMond (US) wins Tour de France in fastest time

1989 - Mike Tyson KOs Carl Williams in 1:33 for heavyweight boxing title

1990 - Goodwill Games opens in Seattle Wash

1990 - Pink Floyds' "Wall" is performed where Berlin Wall once stood

1991 - 120th British Golf Open: Ian Baker-Finch shoots 272 at Royal Birkdale

1991 - Betsy King wins LPGA JAL Big Apple Golf Classic

1991 - Sharmell Sullivan (Gary Indiana), 20, crowned 23rd Miss Black America

1991 - Ferguson Jenkins, Gaylord Perry, Rod Carew, Tony Lazzeri, & Bill Veeck are elected into the Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, NY

1993 - Angela Kennedy swims world record 50 m butterfly stroke (26.93)

1994 - Tony Blair is declared the winner of the leadership election of the British Labour Party, paving the way for him to become Prime Minister in 1997.

1995 - Brian Lara completes a pair for West Indians v Kent

1995 - KC Royals set club-record of 22 singles in 15 innings

1996 - 125th British Golf Open: Tom Lehman shoots a 271 at Royal Lytham

1996 - Dottie Pepper wins LPGA Friendly's Golf Classic

1996 - Wayne Gretzky signs a 2 year deal with NY Rangers

1997 - 200-year-old USS Constitution sails under its own power

1997 - NY Yank Mike Whiton held in Milwaukee on charges of sexual assault

1997 - The fully restored USS Constitution (aka "Old Ironsides") celebrates her 200th birthday by setting sail for the first time in 116 years.

2002 - Telecom giant WorldCom files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in the largest such filing in United States history.

2002 - 131st British Golf Open: Ernie Els shoots a 278 at Muirfield Golf Links

2004 - The United Kingdom government publishes Delivering Security in a Changing World, a paper detailing wide-ranging reform of the country's armed forces.

2005 - Four terrorist bombings, occurring exactly two weeks after the similar July 7 bombings, target London's public transportation system. All four bombs fail to detonate and all four suspected suicide bombers are captured and later convicted and imprisoned for long terms.

2007 - Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, the final book in the bestselling Harry Potter series is released.

2008 - Bosnian-Serb war criminal Radovan Karadžić is arrested in Serbia and is indicted by the UN's ICTY tribunal.

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

2013 - 15 Egyptian Army soldiers are killed after their bus crashes into a truck on the Mediterranean Coast Highway

2013 - 12 people have been killed in a clash between two Muslim families in Lanao del Sur, Philippines

2013 - 142nd British Golf Open: Phil Mickelson shoots a 281 at Muirfield Golf Links