What are the important events that happened on July 21? Here are historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.
July 21: Facts & Myths About This Day
July 21 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.
Under the Julian calendar, this day is July 8, 2024 – a Sunday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?
When this day started, 28,692,000 minutes has elapsed since midnight of January 1, 1970 – the Unix epoch.
Strange as it may, if we name this day after a polygon then it will be called ‘dihectatrigon’ day.
Cancer is the zodiac 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.
The ancient Maya civilization believes that the end of the world will happen on December 21, 2012. There are now 4,230 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.
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July 21 Historical Events
- 285 –Diocletian appoints Maximian as Caesar and co-ruler.
- 1403 –Battle of Shrewsbury: King Henry IV of England defeats rebels to the north of the county town of Shropshire, England.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1925 –Scopes Trial: In Dayton, Tennessee, high school biology teacher John T. Scopes is found guilty of teaching evolution in class and fined $100.
- 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.
- 1969 –Space Race: Neil Armstrong and Edwin “Buzz” Aldrin become the first humans to walk on the Moon, during the Apollo 11 mission (July 20 in North America).
- 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.
- 2011 –NASA’s Space Shuttle program ends with the landing of Space Shuttle Atlantis on mission STS-135.
Who were born on July 21?
- 1710 –Paul Möhring, German physician (d. 1792)
- 1810 –Henri Victor Regnault, French chemist (d. 1878)
- 1923 –Rudolph A. Marcus, Canadian chemist, Nobel laureate
- 1935 –Moe Drabowsky, baseball player (d. 2006)
- 1935 –Norbert Blüm, German politician
- 1963 –Greg Behrendt, American comedian
- 1974 –Geoff Jenkins, American baseball player
- 1979 –Tamika Catchings, American basketball player
- 1981 –Blake Lewis, American musician
- 1988 –Chris Mitchell, Scottish footballer
Who died on July 21?
- 1796 –Robert Burns, Scottish poet (b. 1759)
- 1878 –Sam Bass, American train robber and outlaw (b. 1851)
- 1948 –Arshile Gorky, Armenian-born American artist (b. 1904)
- 1967 –Jimmie Foxx, American baseball player (b. 1907)
- 1977 –Lee Miller, American photographer (b. 1907)
- 1986 –Ernest Maas, American screenwriter (b. 1892)
- 2003 –Matt Jefferies, American film art director (b. 1921)
- 2004 –Jerry Goldsmith, American composer (b. 1929)
- 2005 –Alfred Hayes, British wrestling announcer (b. 1928)
- 2006 –Mako, Japanese-born American actor (b. 1933)
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