Friday, July 21, 2017

History for July 21

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History for July 21 - On-This-Day.com
Ernest Hemingway 1899 - Author, journalist, Marshall McLuhan 1911 - Educator, philosopher, scholar, Isaac Stern 1920 - Violinist 
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Don Knotts 1924 - Actor, Janet Reno 1938 - Attorney General of the U.S. (1993-2001), Yusuf Islam 1948 - Musician (Cat Stevens
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1831 - Belgium became independent as Leopold I was proclaimed King of the Belgians.
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1861 - The first major battle of the U.S. Civil War began. It was the Battle of Bull Run at Manassas Junction, VA. The Confederates won the battle.
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1925 - The "Monkey Trial" ended in Dayton, TN. John T. Scopes was convicted and fined $100 for violating the state prohibition on teaching Darwin's theory of evolution. The conviction was later overturned on a legal technicality because the judge had set the fine instead of the jury.
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1944 - American forces landed on Guam during World War II.
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1949 - The U.S. Senate ratified the North Atlantic Treaty.
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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.
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1961 - Captain Virgil "Gus" Grissom became the second American to rocket into a sub-orbital pattern around the Earth. He was flying on the Liberty Bell 7.
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2011 - Space Shuttle Atlantis landed at Kennedy Space Center in Florida. It was the last flight of NASA's space shuttle program.
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