July 21<\/p>\n
356 BC \u2013 The Temple of Artemis in Ephesus, one of the Seven Wonders of the World in antiquity, is destroyed by arson.<\/p>\n
1798 \u2013 Napoleon’s forces defeat an moslem Ottoman-Mamluk army near Cairo in the Battle of the Pyramids.<\/p>\n
1861 \u2013\u00a0 At Manassas Junction, Virginia, the first major battle of the Civil War ends in a victory for the Confederate army.<\/p>\n
1865 \u2013 In the town square of Springfield, Missouri, James ‘Wild Bill’ Hickok and Davis Tutt engage in what is regarded as the first western showdown gun fight with Hickok killing Tutt with a single shot.<\/p>\n
1873 \u2013 At Adair, Iowa, Jesse James and the James\u2013Younger Gang pull off the first successful train robbery in the U.S.<\/p>\n
1904 \u2013 Louis Rigolly, a Frenchman, becomes the first man to break the 100 mph barrier on land, driving purpose built, 13.5-liter engine powered Gobron-Brilli\u00e9 <\/em>racing car in Ostend, Belgium to 103.561 mph.<\/p>\n 1907 \u2013 The Oregon Railway and Navigation Company’s passenger steamer SS Columbia<\/em> sinks after colliding with the Metropolitan Redwood Lumber Company’s steam schooner San Pedro<\/em> off Shelter Cove, California, killing 88 passengers and crew aboard Columbia<\/em><\/p>\n 1919 \u2013 The Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company’s dirigible Wingfoot Air Express<\/em> crashes into the Illinois Trust and Savings Building in Chicago, killing 3 passengers and crew aboard and 10 people in the building.<\/p>\n 1925 \u2013 In Dayton, Tennessee, high school biology teacher John T. Scopes is found guilty of teaching evolution in his school class and fined $100. 1944 \u2013 American troops land on Guam to retake it from the Japanese, starting a battle that will end on August 10. 1949 \u2013 The Senate ratifies the North Atlantic Treaty, creating NATO.<\/p>\n 1952 \u2013 The 7.3 Mw\u202f Kern County earthquake strikes Southern California with a maximum Mercalli intensity of XI (Extreme), killing 12 and injuring hundreds.<\/p>\n 1954 \u2013 The Geneva Conference partitions Vietnam into North Vietnam and South Vietnam.<\/p>\n 1959 \u2013 The U.S. government owned NS Savannah<\/em>, the first nuclear powered cargo\/passenger ship, is launched at Camden, New Jersey, as a showcase for President Eisenhower’s “Atoms for Peace” initiative.<\/p>\n 1961 \u2013 Mercury-Redstone 4 Mission astronaut Gus Grissom, piloting Liberty Bell 7<\/em> becomes the second American to go into space 1969 \u2013 At 02:56 UTC, at Tranquility Base, astronaut Neil Armstrong leaves the Lunar Lander Eagle<\/em> and becomes the first person to walk on the Moon. At 17:54 UTC, the Eagle<\/em> lifts off from the Moon to redock with the Command Module Columbia<\/em> at 21:35 UTC<\/p>\n 1970 \u2013 After 11 years of construction, the Aswan High Dam in Egypt is completed.<\/p>\n 1979 \u2013 Mohawk Jay Silverheels becomes the first Native American to have a star commemorated in the Hollywood Walk of Fame.<\/p>\n 1983 \u2013 The world’s lowest temperature in an inhabited location is recorded at Vostok Station, Antarctica at \u2212128.6 \u00b0F<\/p>\n 2011 \u2013 NASA’s Space Shuttle program ends with the landing of Space Shuttle Atlantis on mission STS-135.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" July 21 356 BC \u2013 The Temple of Artemis in Ephesus, one of the Seven Wonders of the World in antiquity, is destroyed by arson. 1798 \u2013 Napoleon’s forces defeat an moslem Ottoman-Mamluk army near Cairo in the Battle of the Pyramids. 1861 \u2013\u00a0 At Manassas Junction, Virginia, the first major battle of the Civil … Continue reading “”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-today"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57149","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=57149"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57149\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":94560,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57149\/revisions\/94560"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nMalcolm Campbell becomes the first man to exceed 150 mph on land, driving the Sunbeam 350HP<\/em> at Pendine Sands in Wales, at a 2 way average speed of 150.33 mph<\/p>\n
\nIn Berlin, 5 conspirators are executed for the plot to assassinate Adolf Hitler.<\/p>\n
\nAlaska Airlines Cargo Flight 779, a Douglas DC-6, crashes near Shemya Air Force Base in Shemya, Alaska killing all 6 crew aboard.<\/p>\n