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, 1,721,520,000 seconds 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.
- 1861 –American Civil War: First Battle of Bull Run – at Manassas Junction, Virginia, the first major battle of the war begins and ends in a victory for the Confederate army.
- 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.
- 1914 –The Crown council of Romania decides the country shall remain neutral in World War I
- 1919 –The dirigible Wingfoot Air Express crashes into the Illinois Trust and Savings Building in Chicago, killing 12 people.
- 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.
- 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).
- 1977 –The start of the four day long Libyan-Egyptian War.
- 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.
- 2011 –NASA’s Space Shuttle program ends with the landing of Space Shuttle Atlantis on mission STS-135.
Who were born on July 21?
- 1620 –Jean Picard, French astronomer (d. 1682)
- 1816 –Paul Reuter, German-born British journalist (d. 1899)
- 1930 –Anand Bakshi, Indian lyricist (d. 2002)
- 1948 –Cat Stevens (Yusuf Islam), English singer/songwriter
- 1953 –Brian Talbot, British footballer
- 1955 –Henry Priestman, British keyboardist and singer
- 1955 –Taco, Dutch singer
- 1961 –Amar Singh Chamkila, Punjabi folk singer
- 1963 –Greg Behrendt, American comedian
- 1988 –DeAndre Jordan, American basketball player
Who died on July 21?
- 1798 –François Sebastien Charles Joseph de Croix, Count of Clerfayt, Austrian field marshal (b. 1733)
- 1880 –Hiram Walden, American politician (b. 1800)
- 1932 –Bill Gleason, American baseball player (b. 1858)
- 1943 –Charlie Paddock, American athlete (b. 1900)
- 1946 –Gualberto Villarroel, Bolivian politician (b. 1908)
- 1970 –Bob Kalsu, American football player (b. 1945)
- 1970 –Mikhail Gerasimov, Russian anthropologist and sculptor (b. 1907)
- 1972 –Jigme Dorji Wangchuck, Third king of Bhutan (b. 1928)
- 2005 –Long John Baldry, British blues musician (b. 1941)
- 2006 –Mako, Japanese-born American actor (b. 1933)
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