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Today in History Today is Wednesday, July 21, the 202nd day of 2021. There are 163 days left in the …

Today in history

Today is Wednesday, July 21st, the 202nd day of the year 2021. There are still 163 days in the year.

Today’s highlight in history:

On July 21, 1944, American troops landed on Guam during World War II and captured it by the Japanese about three weeks later.

On this date:

In 1861, during the Civil War, the first Battle of Bull Run was fought in Manassas, Virginia, resulting in a Confederate victory.

In 1925, the so-called “Monkey Trial” ended in Dayton, Tennessee, when John T. Scopes was found guilty of violating state laws for teaching Darwin’s theory of evolution. (The conviction was later overturned for technical reasons.)

In 1954, the Geneva Conference concluded with agreements dividing Vietnam into northern and southern units.

In 1969, the Apollo 11 astronauts Neil Armstrong and Edwin “Buzz” Aldrin started aboard the lunar module’s ascent stage from the moon to dock with the command module.

In 1972 the Irish Republican Army carried out 22 bombings in Belfast, Northern Ireland, killing nine people and injuring 130 in what became known as Bloody Friday.

In 1980, the United States began convening registration for 19- and 20-year-old men.

In 1999, naval divers found the bodies of John F. Kennedy Jr., his wife Carolyn and sister-in-law Lauren Bessette (bih-SEHT ‘) in the wreck of Kennedy’s plane in Martha’s vineyard in the Atlantic Ocean.

In 2000, Special Counsel John C. Danforth concluded “with 100 percent certainty” that the federal government was not malpractice in the siege that killed 80 members of the Branch Davidian Compound near Waco, Texas in 1993 had committed.

In 2009, Cambridge, Massachusetts prosecutors dropped a misconduct charge against prominent black scholar Henry Louis Gates Jr., who was arrested by a white officer at his home near Harvard University after a burglary report .

In 2011, the 30-year-old space shuttle program ended when Atlantis landed in Cape Canaveral, Florida after the 135th shuttle flight.

In 2008, the former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic (RA’-doh-van KA’-ra-jich), one of the world’s leading war criminal refugees, was arrested by Serbian security forces in a suburb of Belgrade. (He was sentenced to life imprisonment by a UN court in 2019 after being convicted of genocide, crimes against humanity, and war crimes.)

In 2015, after nearly a decade of steroids indictment, ex-baseball star Barry Bonds emerged victorious when federal prosecutors dumped the remnants of their criminal case against the career homerun leader.

Ten years ago: The 30-year-old space shuttle program ended when Atlantis landed in Cape Canaveral, Florida after the 135th shuttle flight. The heads of state and government of the euro area agreed to a comprehensive agreement that would grant Greece a massive new bailout package and radically reshape the monetary union’s bailout fund.

Five years ago: Donald Trump accepted the GOP presidency nomination with a speech in which he promised the cheering Republicans and the still skeptical voters that, as President, he would restore the security they feared losing, strictly contain immigration and to save the nation from what he said was Hillary Clinton’s record of “death, destruction, terrorism and weakness”. The NBA moved the 2017 All-Star Game from Charlotte because of its objections to a law in North Carolina that restricted anti-discrimination protection for lesbians, gays and transgender people.

A year ago: Minnesota lawmakers approved a police accountability package that included a ban on neck braces, as applied to George Floyd before his death in Minneapolis. (Governor Tim Walz signed the law two days later.) After months of resisting wearing a mask in public, President Donald Trump told reporters that he was “getting used” to wearing a mask; When Trump returned from a three-month hiatus from daily virus briefings, he warned that the coronavirus in the United States would get worse before it got better. Ohio House Republican spokesman Larry Householder and four employees were arrested in a $ 60 million corruption case related to a taxpayer-funded bailout for Ohio’s two nuclear power plants. (Homeowner pleading innocence was expelled from Ohio House by other lawmakers in June 2021.) Jazz singer and actress Annie Ross died four days before her 90th birthday at her New York home.

Birthdays Today: Film director Norman Jewison is 95. Actor Leigh Lawson is 78. Singer Yusuf Islam (aka Cat Stevens) is 73. Cartoonist Garry Trudeau is 73. Actor Jamey Sheridan is 70. Rock singer and musician Eric Bazilian (The Hooters) is 68. Comedian Jon Lovitz is 64. Actor Lance Guest is 61. Actor Matt Mulhern is 61. Comedian Greg Behrendt is 58. Soccer player Brandi Chastain is 53. Rock singer Emerson Hart is 52. Rock soul singer Michael Fitzpatrick (Fitz and the Tantrums ) is 51. Actress Alysia Reiner is 51. Country singer Paul Brandt is 49. Christian rock musician Korey Cooper (Skillet) is 49. Actor Ali Landry is 48. Actor-comedian Steve Byrne is 47. Rock musician Tato Melgar (Luke Nelson & Promise of the Real) is 44. Actor Justin Bartha is 43. Actor Josh Hartnett is 43. Contemporary Christian singer Brandon Heath is 43. Actor Sprague Grayden is 43. Reggae singer Da mian Marley is 43. Country singer Brad Mates (Emerson.) Drive) is 43. Former MLB All-Star Pitcher CC Sabathia (s uh-BATH’-ee-uh) is 41. Singer Blake Lewis (“American Idol”) is 40. Latin singer Romeo Santos is 40. Rock musician Johan Carlsson (Carolina Liar) is 37. Actress Vanessa Lengies (LEHN’-jeez.)) is 36. Actor Betty Gilpin is 35. Actor Rory Culkin is 32. Actor Jamie Waylett (“Harry Potter” films) is 32. Figure skater Rachael Flatt is 29.

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