July 21
Today is the 202nd day of 2021, there are 163 days left in the year.
1831 - Belgium became independent as Leopold I was proclaimed king of the Belgians.
1861 - Confederate forces defeated Union troops at the Battle of Bull Run at Manassas, Virginia, the first major battle of the Civil War.
1873 - The first train robbery west of the Mississippi River was pulled off by Jesse James and his gang.
1899 - Author Ernest Hemingway was born in Oak Park, Illinois.
1925 - In the "Monkey Trial," John T. Scopes was found guilty of violating Tennessee state law by teaching the theory of evolution. (The conviction was later overturned.)
1944 - Sen. Harry S. Truman was nominated for vice president at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago.
1944 - American forces landed on Guam during World War II, capturing it from the Japanese some three weeks later.
1949 - The U.S. Senate ratified the North Atlantic Treaty.
1954 - France surrendered North Vietnam to the Communists.
1961 - Capt. Virgil "Gus" Grissom became the second American to rocket into a sub-orbital pattern around the Earth, flying on the Liberty Bell 7.
1969 - Apollo 11 astronauts Neil Armstrong and Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin blasted off from the surface of the moon aboard the lunar module to begin their return journey home.
1970 - The Aswan High Dam was opened in Egypt.
1972 - The Irish Republican Army carried out 22 bombings in Belfast, Northern Ireland, killing nine people and injuring 130 in what became known as “Bloody Friday.”
1980 - Draft registration began in the United States for 19- and 20-year-old men.
1988 - Massachusetts Gov. Michael Dukakis accepted the Democratic presidential nomination at the party's convention in Atlanta.
1998 - Astronaut Alan Shepard died at age 74.
1999 - U.S. Navy divers found and recovered the bodies of John F. Kennedy Jr., his wife, Carolyn, and sister-in-law Lauren Bessette, in the wreckage of the Kennedy's plane in the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Martha's Vineyard.
2000 - Special Counsel John C. Danforth concluded "with 100 percent certainty" that the federal government was innocent of wrongdoing in the siege that killed 80 members of the Branch Davidian compound near Waco, Texas in 1993.
2002 - WorldCom filed for bankruptcy protection, then the largest bankruptcy in U.S. history.
2007 - "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows," the final volume in the book series by J.K. Rowling, went on sale.
2008 - Former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic, one of the world's top war crimes fugitives, was arrested in a Belgrade suburb by Serbian security forces. (He was sentenced by a U.N. court in 2019 to life imprisonment after being convicted of genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes.)
2010 - President Barack Obama signed into law the most sweeping overhaul of U.S. lending and high finance rules since the 1930s.
2011 - The space shuttle program officially came to an end after 30 years as Atlantis, the program's 135h flight, landed at Cape Canaveral, Florida.
2016 - Donald Trump accepted the Republican presidential nomination with a speech in which he pledged to cheering party members and still-skeptical voters that as president, he would restore the safety they feared they were losing, strictly curb immigration and save the nation from what he said was Hillary Clinton's record of "death, destruction, terrorism and weakness."
2020 - The Republican speaker of the Ohio House, Larry Householder, and four associates were arrested in a $60 million federal bribery case connected to a taxpayer-funded bailout of Ohio’s two nuclear power plants. (Householder, who has proclaimed his innocence, was expelled from the Ohio House by fellow lawmakers in June 2021.)
Birthdays
23 - Maggie Lindemann (singer)
29 - Rachael Flatt (figure skater)
29 - Jessica Barden (actress)
30 - Sara Sampaio (model)
32 - Rory Culkin (actor)
33 - DeAndre Jordan (basketball player)
35 - Betty Gilpin (actress)
35 - Diane Guerrero (actress)
35 - Rebecca Ferguson (singer)
36 - Vanessa Lengies (actress)
40 - Paloma Faith (singer)
40 - Chrishell Stause (actress)
40 - Blake Lewis (singer)
41 - CC Sabathia (baseball player)
43 - Brad Mates (country singer)
43 - Sprague Grayden (actor)
43 - Josh Hartnett (actor)
43 - Justin Bartha (actor)
47 - Steve Byrne (actor/comedian)
48 - Ali Landry (actress)
49 - Paul Brandt (country singer)
51 - Alysia Reiner (actress)
52 - Emerson Hart (singer)
53 - Brandi Chastain (soccer player)
61 - Matt Mulhern (actor)
61 - Lance Guest (actor)
64 - Jon Lovitz (actor/comedian)
73 - Cat Stevens (singer)
78 - Leigh Lawson (actress)
==========================================
Today in Sports History - July 21
1957 - Althea Gibson became the first black woman to win a major U.S. tennis title when she won the Women's National Clay Court singles competition.
1968 - Arnold Palmer became the first golfer to earn $1 million in career earnings.
1991 - Ferguson Jenkins, Gaylord Perry, Rod Carew, Tony Lazzeri and Bill Veeck are elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame.
1996 - Hockey great Wayne Gretzky signs a two-year contract to play for the New York Rangers.
1998 - Chinese gymnast Sang Lan, 17, was paralyzed after a fall while practicing for the women's vault competition at the Goodwill Games in New York. Spinal surgery 4 days later failed to restore sensation below her upper chest.
2006 - Alex Rodriguez of the New York Yankees became the youngest player to reach the 450 career home run mark.
2013 - Phil Mickelson wins his fifth career major with a three stroke victory at the British Open.
2013 - The 100th running of the Tour de France was won by Britain's Chris Froome.
2015 - After a nearly decade-long steroids prosecution, former baseball star Barry Bonds emerged victorious when federal prosecutors dropped what was left of their criminal case against the career home runs leader.
2016 - The NBA moved the 2017 All-Star Game out of Charlotte because of its objections to a North Carolina law that limited anti-discrimination protections for lesbian, gay and transgender people.
Today is the 202nd day of 2021, there are 163 days left in the year.
1831 - Belgium became independent as Leopold I was proclaimed king of the Belgians.
1861 - Confederate forces defeated Union troops at the Battle of Bull Run at Manassas, Virginia, the first major battle of the Civil War.
1873 - The first train robbery west of the Mississippi River was pulled off by Jesse James and his gang.
1899 - Author Ernest Hemingway was born in Oak Park, Illinois.
1925 - In the "Monkey Trial," John T. Scopes was found guilty of violating Tennessee state law by teaching the theory of evolution. (The conviction was later overturned.)
1944 - Sen. Harry S. Truman was nominated for vice president at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago.
1944 - American forces landed on Guam during World War II, capturing it from the Japanese some three weeks later.
1949 - The U.S. Senate ratified the North Atlantic Treaty.
1954 - France surrendered North Vietnam to the Communists.
1961 - Capt. Virgil "Gus" Grissom became the second American to rocket into a sub-orbital pattern around the Earth, flying on the Liberty Bell 7.
1969 - Apollo 11 astronauts Neil Armstrong and Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin blasted off from the surface of the moon aboard the lunar module to begin their return journey home.
1970 - The Aswan High Dam was opened in Egypt.
1972 - The Irish Republican Army carried out 22 bombings in Belfast, Northern Ireland, killing nine people and injuring 130 in what became known as “Bloody Friday.”
1980 - Draft registration began in the United States for 19- and 20-year-old men.
1988 - Massachusetts Gov. Michael Dukakis accepted the Democratic presidential nomination at the party's convention in Atlanta.
1998 - Astronaut Alan Shepard died at age 74.
1999 - U.S. Navy divers found and recovered the bodies of John F. Kennedy Jr., his wife, Carolyn, and sister-in-law Lauren Bessette, in the wreckage of the Kennedy's plane in the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Martha's Vineyard.
2000 - Special Counsel John C. Danforth concluded "with 100 percent certainty" that the federal government was innocent of wrongdoing in the siege that killed 80 members of the Branch Davidian compound near Waco, Texas in 1993.
2002 - WorldCom filed for bankruptcy protection, then the largest bankruptcy in U.S. history.
2007 - "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows," the final volume in the book series by J.K. Rowling, went on sale.
2008 - Former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic, one of the world's top war crimes fugitives, was arrested in a Belgrade suburb by Serbian security forces. (He was sentenced by a U.N. court in 2019 to life imprisonment after being convicted of genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes.)
2010 - President Barack Obama signed into law the most sweeping overhaul of U.S. lending and high finance rules since the 1930s.
2011 - The space shuttle program officially came to an end after 30 years as Atlantis, the program's 135h flight, landed at Cape Canaveral, Florida.
2016 - Donald Trump accepted the Republican presidential nomination with a speech in which he pledged to cheering party members and still-skeptical voters that as president, he would restore the safety they feared they were losing, strictly curb immigration and save the nation from what he said was Hillary Clinton's record of "death, destruction, terrorism and weakness."
2020 - The Republican speaker of the Ohio House, Larry Householder, and four associates were arrested in a $60 million federal bribery case connected to a taxpayer-funded bailout of Ohio’s two nuclear power plants. (Householder, who has proclaimed his innocence, was expelled from the Ohio House by fellow lawmakers in June 2021.)
Birthdays
23 - Maggie Lindemann (singer)
29 - Rachael Flatt (figure skater)
29 - Jessica Barden (actress)
30 - Sara Sampaio (model)
32 - Rory Culkin (actor)
33 - DeAndre Jordan (basketball player)
35 - Betty Gilpin (actress)
35 - Diane Guerrero (actress)
35 - Rebecca Ferguson (singer)
36 - Vanessa Lengies (actress)
40 - Paloma Faith (singer)
40 - Chrishell Stause (actress)
40 - Blake Lewis (singer)
41 - CC Sabathia (baseball player)
43 - Brad Mates (country singer)
43 - Sprague Grayden (actor)
43 - Josh Hartnett (actor)
43 - Justin Bartha (actor)
47 - Steve Byrne (actor/comedian)
48 - Ali Landry (actress)
49 - Paul Brandt (country singer)
51 - Alysia Reiner (actress)
52 - Emerson Hart (singer)
53 - Brandi Chastain (soccer player)
61 - Matt Mulhern (actor)
61 - Lance Guest (actor)
64 - Jon Lovitz (actor/comedian)
73 - Cat Stevens (singer)
78 - Leigh Lawson (actress)
==========================================
Today in Sports History - July 21
1957 - Althea Gibson became the first black woman to win a major U.S. tennis title when she won the Women's National Clay Court singles competition.
1968 - Arnold Palmer became the first golfer to earn $1 million in career earnings.
1991 - Ferguson Jenkins, Gaylord Perry, Rod Carew, Tony Lazzeri and Bill Veeck are elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame.
1996 - Hockey great Wayne Gretzky signs a two-year contract to play for the New York Rangers.
1998 - Chinese gymnast Sang Lan, 17, was paralyzed after a fall while practicing for the women's vault competition at the Goodwill Games in New York. Spinal surgery 4 days later failed to restore sensation below her upper chest.
2006 - Alex Rodriguez of the New York Yankees became the youngest player to reach the 450 career home run mark.
2013 - Phil Mickelson wins his fifth career major with a three stroke victory at the British Open.
2013 - The 100th running of the Tour de France was won by Britain's Chris Froome.
2015 - After a nearly decade-long steroids prosecution, former baseball star Barry Bonds emerged victorious when federal prosecutors dropped what was left of their criminal case against the career home runs leader.
2016 - The NBA moved the 2017 All-Star Game out of Charlotte because of its objections to a North Carolina law that limited anti-discrimination protections for lesbian, gay and transgender people.
