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July 21 Historical Events

The following events took place on July 21. The list is arranged in chronological order.

Found 42 events. Showing 31 - 42.

  • 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).
  • 1970
    After 11 years of construction, the Aswan High Dam in Egypt is completed.
  • 1972
    The Troubles: Bloody Friday: The Provisional IRA detonate 22 bombs in central Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom in the space of 80 minutes, killing nine and injuring 130.
  • 1973
    In the Lillehammer affair in Norway, Israeli Mossad agents kill a waiter whom they mistakenly thought was involved in the 1972 Munich Olympics Massacre.
  • 1976
    Christopher Ewart-Biggs, the British ambassador to the Republic of Ireland, is assassinated by the Provisional IRA.
  • 1977
    The start of the four-day-long Libyan–Egyptian War.
  • 1983
    The world’s lowest temperature in an inhabited location is recorded at Vostok Station, Antarctica at -89.2 °C.
  • 1995
    Third Taiwan Strait Crisis: The People’s Liberation Army begins firing missiles into the waters north of Taiwan.
  • 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 Station becomes overcrowded and people leaving the event fall down in a domino effect.
  • 2008
    Ram Baran Yadav is declared the first president of Nepal.
  • 2011
    NASA’s Space Shuttle program ends with the landing of Space Shuttle Atlantis on mission STS-135.
  • 2012
    Erden Eruç completes the first solo human-powered circumnavigation of the world.

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