About July 21
July 21, 2024 is the 203rd day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 163 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Sunday.
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Cancer is the sun sign of a person born on this day. Ruby is the modern birthstone for this month. Ruby is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 192 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On July 21
- 356 BC –The Temple of Artemis in Ephesus, one of the Seven Wonders of the World, is destroyed by arson.
- 230 –Pope Pontian succeeds Urban I as the eighteenth pope.
- 285 –Diocletian appoints Maximian as Caesar and co-ruler.
- 1718 –The Treaty of Passarowitz between the Ottoman Empire, Austria and the Republic of Venice is signed.
- 1831 –Inauguration of Leopold I of Belgium, first king of the Belgians.
- 1873 –At Adair, Iowa, Jesse James and the James-Younger Gang pull off the first successful train robbery in the American Old West.
- 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.
- 1904 –Louis Rigolly, a Frenchman, becomes the first man to break the 100 mph barrier on land. He drove a 15-liter Gobron-Brille in Ostend, Belgium.
- 1918 –SMU U-156 shells Nauset Beach, in Orleans, Massachusetts.
- 1944 –World War II: Battle of Guam – American troops land on Guam starting the battle. It would end on August 10.
- 1944 –World War II: Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg and fellow conspirators are executed in Berlin, Germany for the July 20 plot to assassinate Adolf Hitler.
- 1949 –The United States Senate ratifies the North Atlantic Treaty.
- 1954 –First Indochina War: The Geneva Conference partitions Vietnam into North Vietnam and South Vietnam.
- 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.
- 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).
- 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.
- 1976 –Christopher Ewart-Biggs British ambassador to the Republic of Ireland is assassinated by the Provisional IRA.
- 1977 –The start of the four day long Libyan-Egyptian War.
- 1997 –The fully restored USS Constitution (aka Old Ironsides) celebrates her 200th birthday by setting sail for the first time in 116 years.
- 2001 –At the conclusion of a fireworks display on Okura Beach in Akashi, Hyōgo, Japan, 11 people are killed and more than 120 are injured when a pedestrian footbridge connecting the beach to JR Asagiri railway station becomes overcrowded and people leaving the event fall down in a domino effect.
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