1934 – Outside Chicago’s Biograph Theatre, “Public Enemy No. 1” John Dillinger is mortally wounded by FBI agents
1937 – Irish premier Eamon de Valera wins elections
1942 – Gasoline rationing using coupons begins
1942 – 4th Soviet army forms with 80 tanks
1959 – Benjamin Britten’s “Missa Brevis” in D premieres
1960 – Cuba nationalizes all US-owned sugar factories
1987 – Said Aouita of Morocco sets 5k record (12:58.39) in Rome
1994 – 23rd and last part of Comet Shoemaker-Levy hit Jupiter (since July 16th)
2005 – Jean Charles de Menezes is killed by police as the hunt begins for the London Bombers. See 7 July 2005 London bombings and 21 July 2005 London bombings
2019 – US President Donald Trump says US could win war in Afghanistan in a week “I just don’t want to kill 10 million people. If I wanted to win that war, Afghanistan would be wiped off the face of the earth”
Category: Historical Events
Historical Events for 21st July 2021
1669 – John Locke’s Constitution of English colony Carolina is approved
1919 – Anthony Fokker’s establishes airplane factory at Hamburg and Amsterdam
1930 – US Veterans Administration forms
1944 – Field Marshal Günther von Kluge warns Hitler of impending collapse of front in Normandy
1954 – Geneva Accords for Indochina signed, dividing French colonial territories into the countries of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (North Vietnam), the State of Vietnam (South Vietnam), Cambodia, and Laos
1956 – US performs atmospheric nuclear Test at Enwetak
1970 – Clay Kirby has a no-hitter going for 8 inn, but is lifted for a pinch hitter, Reliever Jack Baldschun gives up 3 hits and Padres lose, 3-0
1980 – Jean-Claude Droyer climbs Eiffel Tower in 2 hrs 18 mins
1985 – Amina Fakir (Detroit), 23, crowned 18th Miss Black America
1989 – Mike Tyson KOs Carl Williams in 1:33 for heavyweight boxing title
Historical Events for 20th July 2021
1619 – Gerardus Vossius resigns as Dutch regent States college leader
1712 – The Riot Act takes effect in Great Britain.
1866 – Sea battle of Lissa-Austria vs Italy
1907 – A train wreck on the Pere Marquette Railroad near Salem, Michigan kills thirty and injures seventy more
1944 – US 9th Air Force bombs railroad at Chaulnes Sable-sur-Sarthe/Dreux
1944 – Violent battles in Verrieres-hill (Normandy)
1956 – Confirmation of the first detection of the neutrino by Clyde Cowan, Frederick Reines, F. B. Harrison, H. W. Kruse, and A. D. McGuire published in “Science” (Cowan–Reines neutrino experiment)
1982 – Hyde Park and Regent’s Park bombings: 11 British soldiers and 7 military horses killed in Provisional Irish Republican Army bomb attacks during military ceremonies in London
1996 – In Spain an ETA bomb at an airport kills 35
1997 – British Open Men’s Golf, Royal Troon: American Justin Leonard recovers from 5 strokes back after 3 rounds; wins by 3 from Darren Clarke and Jesper Parnevik
Historical Events for 19th July 2021
1816 – Survivors of French frigate Medusa rescued off Senegal after 17 days
1850 – Airship Elizabeth leaves in storm for Fire Island, crashes (42 die)
1936 – Indians’ Bob Feller makes his major league debut in relief
1942 – German occupiers confiscate bicycles in Rotterdam and The Hague
1944 – Japanese aircraft carriers Taiho and Shokaku sink in Marianas
1964 – PGA Championship Men’s Golf, Columbus CC: Bobby Nichols wins his only major title by 3 strokes from ‘Big-2’ Jack Nicklaus and Arnold Palmer; leads wire-to-wire
1979 – Nicaragua Liberation Day; Sandinistas take over from Anastasio Somoza Debayle
1986 – Tim Witherspoon KOs Frank Bruno in 11 for heavyweight boxing title
2020 – Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler criticizes federal policing of protesters in his city, calling it unconstitutional
2020 – World Formula 1 drivers champion Lewis Hamilton wins a record 8th Hungarian Grand Prix in Budapest to equal Michael Schumacher’s record of wins at a single circuit (French GP)
Historical Events for 18th July 2021
1753 – Lemuel Haynes, escapes from slave holder in Framingham, Massachusetts
1857 – Louis Faidherbe, French governor of Senegal, arrives to relieve French forces at Kayes, effectively ending El Hajj Umar Tall’s war against the French
1878 – Wimbledon Men’s Tennis: Frank Hadow makes his lone Wimbledon appearance, and wins; beats defending champion Spencer Gore 7-5, 6-1, 9-7
1915 – Boston Braves start move from last place to become world series champs
1947 – British seize “Exodus 1947” ship of Jewish immigrants to Palestine
1963 – Failed military coup in Syria
1986 – MLB Kansas City Royals announce that manager Dick Howser, 50, has a brain tumor
1994 – “Kiss From a Rose” released by Seal (Grammy Record and Song of the Year)
1994 – Bomb attack on Jewish center AMIA in Buenos Aires, 86 killed
2018 – Seventeen men charged with the gang-rape of a 12-year old girl in Chennai, India
Historical Events for 17th July 2021
1203 – Siege of Constantinople begins during the fourth Crusade, Crusaders aboad a Venetian fleet attack the city
1863 – Māori forces are defeated by British troops at Koheroa, Waikato, in the New Zealand Wars between Maori tribes and British colonials
1867 – 1st US dental school, Harvard School of Dental Medicine, established
1974 – 1st quadrophonic studio in UK is open by Moody Blues
1979 – David Gower 200* in England score of 5-633 v India at Edgbaston
1981 – Glasdrumman ambush: the Provisional Irish Republican Army attack a British Army post in South Armagh, killing 1 soldier and injuring another
1994 – Hulk Hogan beats Ric Flair to win WCW wrestling championship
1995 – Forbes Magazine announces Bill Gates is the richest man in world with a net worth of $12.9 billion dollars
1997 – 30th San Diego Comic-Con International opens at San Diego Convention Center
2013 – 7 people are killed by a car bomb in Damascus, Syria
Historical Events for 16th July 2021
1897 – The South African Committee, investigating the Jameson Raid releases its report finding that it was conducted almost implicitly through the support and encouragement of Cecil Rhodes and the mining houses in the Transvaal
1920 – Gen Amos Fries appointed 1st US army chemical warfare chief
1940 – NSB’er Woudenberg appointed as NVV-trustee
1951 – King Leopold III of Belgium abdicates
1975 – Major League Baseball owners re-elect Commissioner Bowie Kuhn to a 7-year term
1985 – 56th All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 6-1 at Humphrey Metrodome, Minn
1990 – Civil trial by parents of Suicide victims against Judas Priest begins
1994 – Shreveport Pirates lose first CFL home game, 35-34 to the Toronto Argonauts at Independence Stadium in Shreveport, Louisiana
1995 – Senior Players Championship Men’s Golf, TPC of Michigan: J C Snead wins his lone career major title as he birdies first playoff hole against Jack Nicklaus
2014 – Hamas and Islamic Jihad offer Israel a 10-year truce with 10 conditions, which include lifting the blockade and the release of prisoners; it is rejected
Historical Events for 15th July 2021
1207 – King John of England expels Canterbury monks for supporting Archbishop of Canterbury Stephen Langton.
1783 – 1st steamboat, Pyroscaphe, 1st run in France
1787 – Parliament of Paris banished to Troyes
1806 – Zebulon Pike begins his journey to explore the American Southwest
1888 – Bandai volcano (Japan) erupts for 1st time in 1,000 years
1922 – US Open Men’s Golf, Skokie CC: Gene Sarazen wins the first of his 7 major titles, 1 stroke ahead of runners-up John Black and 20-year-old amateur Bobby Jones
1954 – 1st commercial jet transport plane built in US tested (Boeing 707)
2003 – AOL Time Warner disbands Netscape Communications Corporation. The Mozilla Foundation is established on the same day.
2014 – 85th All Star Baseball Game: AL wins 5-3 at Target Field, Minnesota
2017 – Wimbledon Women’s Tennis: Garbiñe Muguruza of Spain beats Venus Williams 7-5, 6-0 for her 2nd Grand Slam title
Historical Events for 14th July 2021
1535 – Emperor Charles V conquers Tunis
1853 – New Zealand holds its first general election
1934 – Philadelphia Phillies score 11 runs in an inning, beating Cincinnati 18-0
1938 – Benito Mussolini publishes anti-Jewish African manifesto
1951 – “Make a Wish” closes at Winter Garden Theater NYC after 102 performances
1976 – Democratic Convention in NYC nominates former Georgia governor Jimmy Carter for president and US Senator Walter Mondale, from Minnesota, for vice president
1987 – 58th All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 2-0 in 13 at Oakland-Alameda Stad
2008 – “The Dark Knight” directed by Christopher Nolan, starring Christian Bale and Heath Ledger, premieres in New York
2015 – Harper Lee’s 2nd novel “Go Set A Watchman”, an early 1957 version of “To Kill A Mocking Bird” goes on sale in 70 countries
2018 – Huge iceberg looming over Innaarsuit village, western Greenland prompts evacations in case it calves
Historical Events for 13th July 2021
1643 – Battle at Roundway Down: Royalists beat parliamentary armies
1668 – Van Marco Cesti’s opera “Il Pomo d’Oro” (the Golden Apple or Tomato) premieres in Vienna
1865 – P. T. Barnum’s museum burns down
1978 – Russian dissidents Ginsburg, Piatkus and Sjtsjaranki sentenced to work camps
1980 – USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1982 – Iran launches first attack into Iraq
1986 – Zola Budd and Annette Cowley are banned from the Commonwealth Games, a direct consequence of Britain’s refusal to support economic sanctions against the apartheid government of South Africa
1988 – Red Sox replace manager John McNamara with Joe Morgan
1996 – Cigar wins record 16th straight win, (ties Citation in 1940)
2015 – Sandra Bland is found dead in Waller County jail, Texas after spending weekend in jail after a traffic offence. Her family disputes her supposed suicide