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, 478,200 hours 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
- 1568 –Eighty Years’ War: Battle of Jemmingen – Fernando Álvarez de Toledo, Duke of Alva defeats Louis of Nassau.
- 1718 –The Treaty of Passarowitz between the Ottoman Empire, Austria and the Republic of Venice is signed.
- 1914 –The Crown council of Romania decides the country shall remain neutral in World War I
- 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.
- 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).
- 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).
- 1983 –The world’s lowest temperature is recorded at Vostok Station, Antarctica at -89.2 °C.
- 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.
Who were born on July 21?
- 1922 –Mollie Sugden, British comedic actress (d. 2009)
- 1926 –Paul Burke, American actor (d. 2009)
- 1933 –John Gardner, American author (d. 1982)
- 1934 –Chandu Borde, former Indian cricketer
- 1934 –Jonathan Miller, British theatre director
- 1948 –Cat Stevens (Yusuf Islam), English singer/songwriter
- 1957 –Jon Lovitz, American comedian
- 1971 –Marcus Eoin, Scottish musician (Boards of Canada)
- 1975 –Cara Dillon, Irish folk singer
- 1978 –Gary Teale, Scottish footballer
Who died on July 21?
- 1425 –Manuel II Palaeologus, Byzantine Emperor (b. 1350)
- 1899 –Robert G. Ingersoll, American politician and military officer (b. 1833)
- 1948 –Arshile Gorky, Armenian-born American artist (b. 1904)
- 1972 –Jigme Dorji Wangchuck, Third king of Bhutan (b. 1928)
- 1972 –Ralph Craig, American athlete (b. 1889)
- 1982 –Dave Garroway, American television host (b. 1913)
- 1986 –Ernest Maas, American screenwriter (b. 1892)
- 1991 –Paul Warwick, English racing driver (b. 1969)
- 2001 –Sivaji Ganesan, Indian Tamil actor (b. 1927)
- 2004 –Edward B. Lewis, American geneticist, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine laureate (b. 1918)
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