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Thursday, July 21, 2005

July 21

What's July 21st? I'm wracking my brain, and I can't figure it out! Birthday? Anniversary? Some other important event?

posted by Veev at 3:20 PM

11 Comments:

  • July 21
    1790 -- The dispute over the "Report on the Public Credit" written by Alexander Hamilton', the 1st Secretary of the Treasury, was settled.
    1905 -- David M. Kennedy , the 60th Secretary of the Treasury, was born in Randolph, Utah.
    1984 -- A symbolic medal honoring Americans missing in Southeast Asia was presented to the National League of Families.
    1693 Thomas Pelham-Holles born
    Events
    1861 Battle of Manassas I
    1863 Union General Edward Kirk dies of wounds from the battle of Stones River
    1944 Battle of Guam
    July 21 Events in History

    July 21, 1997 New York Yankee Mike Whiton held in Milwaukee on charges of sexual assault
    July 21, 1996 125th British Golf Open: Tom Lehman shoots a 271 at Royal Lytham
    July 21, 1996 Dottie Pepper wins LPGA Friendly's Golf Classic
    July 21, 1996 Wayne Gretzky signs a 2 year deal with New York Rangers
    July 21, 1995 Brian Lara completes a pair for West Indians vs. Kent
    July 21, 1995 Kansas City Royals set club-record of 22 singles in 15 innings
    July 21, 1993 Angela Kennedy swims world record 50 m butterfly stroke (26.93)
    July 21, 1991 120th British Golf Open: Ian Baker-Finch shoots 272 at Royal Birkdale
    July 21, 1991 Betsy King wins LPGA JAL Big Apple Golf Classic
    July 21, 1991 Sharmell Sullivan (Gary, Indiana), 20, crowned 23rd Miss Black America
    July 21, 1991 Ferguson Jenkins, Gaylord Perry, Rod Carew, Tony Lazzeri, and Bill Veeck are elected into the Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, New York
    July 21, 1990 Goodwill Games opens in Seattle, Washington
    July 21, 1990 Pink Floyds' "Wall" is performed where Berlin Wall once stood
    July 21, 1989 Eastern Airlines submits a reorganization plan to creditors
    July 21, 1989 Greg LeMond wins Tour de France in fastest time
    July 21, 1989 Mike Tyson KOs Carl Williams in 1:33 for heavyweight boxing title
    July 21, 1988 ESA's Ariane-3 launches 2 communications satellites (1 Indian)
    July 21, 1987 Kristi Addis, of Mississippi, crowned 5th Miss Teen USA
    July 21, 1986 Barbara Palacios Teyde, 22, of Venezuela, crowned 35th Miss Universe
    July 21, 1985 "Leader of the Pack" closes at Ambassador Theater New York City after 120 performances
    July 21, 1985 114th British Golf Open: Sandy Lyle shoots a 282 at Royal St. George
    July 21, 1985 Amina Fakir (Detroit), 23, crowned 18th Miss Black America
    July 21, 1985 Bernard Hinault wins his 5th and last Tour de France
    July 21, 1985 Judy Clark wins LPGA Boston Five Golf Classic
    July 21, 1984 1st documented case of a robot killing a human in U.S.
    July 21, 1984 Marita Koch of E Germany sets world women's mark for 200m, 21.71s
    July 21, 1984 U.S.S.R. performs underground nuclear Test
    July 21, 1983 Polish government ends 19 months of martial law
    July 21, 1983 Storm cuts short free Diana Ross concert in New York's Central Park
    July 21, 1983 U.S. announces Lebanon freed American hostage David Dodge
    July 21, 1982 France performs nuclear Test at Muruora Island
    July 21, 1981 Australia set 130 to win, all out 111 at Headingley Willis 8-43
    July 21, 1980 Jean-Claude Droyer climbs Eiffel Tower in 2 hours 18 mins
    July 21, 1979 108th British Golf Open: Seve Ballesteros shoots a 283 at Royal Lytham
    July 21, 1979 National Women's Hall of Fame (Seneca Falls, New York) dedicated
    July 21, 1978 Bolivia milt coup under general Juan Pereda, President Hugo Banzer flees
    July 21, 1978 U.S. Postal Service and unions agree on a contract averting mail strike
    July 21, 1978 World's strongest dog, 80-kg St. Bernard, pulls 2909-kg load 27 m
    July 21, 1977 Libyan-Egyptian border fights
    July 21, 1977 Sri Lanka premier Bandaranaike loses election
    July 21, 1976 "Guys and Dolls" opens at Broadway Theater New York City for 239 performances
    July 21, 1976 1st outbreak of "Legionnaire's Disease" kills 29 in Phila
    July 21, 1975 Billy Martin fired as Texas Rangers manager
    July 21, 1975 New York Met Felix Milan hits 4 singles; erased by Joe Torres 4 double plays
    July 21, 1974 29th U.S. Women's Open Golf Championship won by Sandra Haynie
    July 21, 1974 Eddy Merckx wins his 5th Tour de France
    July 21, 1974 House Judiciary approves 2 Articles of Impeachment against President Nixon
    July 21, 1973 Braves Hank Aaron hits Ken Brett's fastball for his 700th HR
    July 21, 1973 France performs nuclear Test at Muruora Atoll un the Pacific
    July 21, 1973 U.S.S.R. launches Mars 4 for fly-by (2600 km) of red planet
    July 21, 1972 2 passenger trains collide head-on killing 76, Seville, Spain
    July 21, 1972 27.5 cm rainfall at Fort Ripley, Minnesota, state record
    July 21, 1972 Bloody Friday: 22 IRA-bombs explode in Belfast
    July 21, 1972 Dodgers release and end career of pitcher Hoyt Wilhelm
    July 21, 1972 In New York, 57 murders occur in 24 hours
    July 21, 1971 U.S. performs nuclear Test at Nevada Test Site
    July 21, 1970 Huge Aswan Dam opens in Egypt
    July 21, 1970 Libya orders confiscation of all Jewish property
    July 21, 1970 U.S.S.R. performs nuclear Test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk U.S.S.R.
    July 21, 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
    July 21, 1969 Neil Armstrong steps on Moon at 2:56:15 AM, GMT
    July 21, 1969 Russia's Luna 15 impacts moon after 52 lunar orbits
    July 21, 1968 50th PGA Championship: Julius Boros shoots a 281 at Pecan Valley, Texas
    July 21, 1968 Carol Mann wins LPGA Buckeye Savings Golf Invitational
    July 21, 1968 Jan Janssen wins Tour de France: 1st Dutchman
    July 21, 1966 Gemini X returns to Earth
    July 21, 1966 U.S.S.R. performs nuclear Test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk U.S.S.R.
    July 21, 1965 Pakistan, Iran and Turkey sign Regional Co-Operation pact
    July 21, 1964 Arnold Long takes 11 catches in the match for Surrey vs. Sussex
    July 21, 1964 Mildred Simpson runs female world record marathon (3:19:33)
    July 21, 1964 Netherlands last whaling ship Willem Barents Sea sold to Japan
    July 21, 1963 45th PGA Championship: Jack Nicklaus shoots a 279 at Dallas AC Dallas
    July 21, 1962 160 civil right activists jailed after demonstration in Albany, Georgia
    July 21, 1962 Battles on Chinese and Indies boundary
    July 21, 1961 Launch of Mercury 4 (Liberty Bell) with Grissom
    July 21, 1960 Country of Katanga forms in Africa
    July 21, 1960 In Sri Lanka (then Ceylon) Sirima Bandaranaike is world's 1st woman PM
    July 21, 1960 Francis Chichester arrive in New York aboard Gypsy Moth II, setting record of 40 days for a solo Atlantic crossing
    July 21, 1959 1st nuclear powered merchant ship, NS Savannah, christened, Camden, New Jersey
    July 21, 1959 Red Sox are last team to use a black player (Pumpsie Green)
    July 21, 1957 1st black to win a major U.S. tennis tournament, Althea Gibson
    July 21, 1957 39th PGA Championship: Lionel Hebert at Miami Valley GC Dayton Ohio
    July 21, 1957 Marilynn Smith/Fay Crocker wins Hot Springs 4-Ball Golf Tournament
    July 21, 1956 Cincinnati Red pitcher Brooks Lawrence loses after 13 straight wins
    July 21, 1956 U.S. performs atmospheric nuclear Test at Enwetak
    July 21, 1955 1st sub powered by liquid metal cooled reactor launched-Seawolf
    July 21, 1954 At Geneva, France agrees to independence of North and South Vietnam
    July 21, 1952 7.8 earthquake shakes Kern County California, 14 killed
    July 21, 1952 Premier Ghavam es-Sultaneh of Persia, resigns
    July 21, 1951 Dalai Lama returns to Tibet
    July 21, 1949 Senate ratifies North Atlantic Treaty by a vote of 82-13 (NATO)
    July 21, 1948 WSPD TV channel 13 in Toledo, OH (NBC) begins broadcasting
    July 21, 1947 Indonesia begins 1st political election
    July 21, 1946 Jesus T. Pinerol becomes 1st native born Puerto Rican governor
    July 21, 1945 Detroit Tigers and Philadelphia A's play 24 inning 1-1 tie
    July 21, 1944 British premier Winston Churchill flies to France, meets Montgomery
    July 21, 1944 General Koiso becomes premier of Japan
    July 21, 1944 U.S. forces land on Guam to get rid of Japanese invaders
    July 21, 1944 Von Kluge warns Hitler of impending collapse of front in Normandy
    July 21, 1942 8 die as coal waste heap slides in river valley near Oakwood, Virginia
    July 21, 1941 200 Jewish Torahs are burned in Ukraine
    July 21, 1941 Himmler orders building of Majdanek concentration camp
    July 21, 1940 Soviet Union annexes Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania
    July 21, 1940 VARA-management accepts Rost of Tonningens demands
    July 21, 1938 Paul Hindemith and Leonide Massines ballet premieres in London
    July 21, 1934 113 degrees F (45 degrees C), near Gallipolis, Ohio (state record)
    July 21, 1933 Haifa Harbor in Palestine opens
    July 21, 1931 Reno race track, becomes 1st in U.S. to use daily double wagering
    July 21, 1930 110 degrees F (43 degrees C) at Millsboro, Delaware (state record)
    July 21, 1930 U.S. Veterans Administration forms
    July 21, 1928 1st woman to win an olympic gold medal - Halina Knonpacka of Poland
    July 21, 1925 Monkey Trial ends-John Scopes found guilty of teaching Darwinism
    July 21, 1923 Phillies score 12 in 6th and beat Cubs 17-4
    July 21, 1921 Indians (9) and Yankees (7) hit a record 16 doubles
    July 21, 1919 Anthony Fokker's establishes airplane factory at Hamburg and Amsterdam
    July 21, 1919 Dirigible crashes through bank skylight killing 13 (Chicago, Ill)
    July 21, 1904 After 13 years, the 4,607-mile Trans-Siberian railway is completed
    July 21, 1904 Camille Jenatzy sets world auto speed record at 65.79 MPH
    July 21, 1900 Pope Leo XIII encyclical to Greek-Melkite rite
    July 21, 1898 Spain cedes Guam to U.S.
    July 21, 1897 Tate Gallery opens in England
    July 21, 1896 National Federation of Afro-American Women and Colored Women's
    July 21, 1884 1st Test Cricket match played at Lord's
    July 21, 1880 Compressed air accident kills 20 workers on Hudson River tunnel, New York
    July 21, 1877 U.S. Army breaks railroad strike
    July 21, 1873 Jesse James and James Younger gang's 1st train robbery (Adair Iowa)
    July 21, 1867 City Gardens on Folsom opens
    July 21, 1866 Cholera-epidemic kills hundreds in London
    July 21, 1861 1st major battle of Civil War ends (Bull Run), Va-South wins
    July 21, 1846 Mormons found 1st English settlement in California (San Joaquin Valley)
    July 21, 1836 1st Canadian RR opens, between Laprairie and St. John, Quebec
    July 21, 1831 Belgium gains independence from Netherlands, Leopold I made king
    July 21, 1825 Java princess Dipo Negoro/Mangkubumi declare war on all non-islamics
    July 21, 1798 Napoleon Bonaparte wins Battle of Pyramids in Egypt
    July 21, 1774 Peace of Kutsjuk Kainardji (end Russian-Turkish War)
    July 21, 1773 Pope Clemens XIV bans Jesuits
    July 21, 1749 Pieter Steyn becomes pension advisor of Holland
    July 21, 1730 States of Holland put death penalty on "sodomy"
    July 21, 1669 John Lockes Constitution of English colony Carolina approved
    July 21, 1595 Alvara Mendana discovers Marquesas Island
    July 21, 1588 English fleet defeats Spanish armada
    July 21, 1579 Mechelen surrenders to duke of Parma
    July 21, 1568 Battle at Jemmingen: Alva's troops beat Dutch rebellion
    July 21, 1542 Pope Paul III begins inquisition against Protestants (Sactum Officium)
    July 21, 1320 Count Louis of Nevers marries 8-year old daughter of Philips V
    July 21, 976 Emperor Otto II gives earl Leopold I, East Bavaria
    July 21, 905 Holy Roman Catholic emperor Louis III captured
    July 21, 866 John appointed bishop of the kingdom
    July 21, 365 Alexandria hit by Earthquake; about 50,000 die
    July 21, 230 St. Pontianus begins his reign as Catholic Pope

    By Blogger stillruleall, at 4:18 PM  

  • Oh man, SRA! I wonder if Veev found what she was looking for on your list. I wonder if she will ever find my comment at the bottom of yours....
    Veev - did you check the family calender? Anything there?

    By Blogger DonutsMom, at 4:49 PM  

  • it's not my birthday, anniversary, or graduation...in case you were wondering.

    By Blogger 2R, at 7:21 PM  

  • Thanks, Dav. Not what I had in mind, though. Nat, it's not on the calendar, so maybe it's something from my family. And thanks, Sar, I was wondering. What date did Golda and Sim rip my nieces and nephews away from me?

    By Blogger Veev, at 8:07 PM  

  • Dav or SRA if you will, you have way to much time on your hands

    By Blogger DonutsMom, at 12:00 AM  

  • This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.

    By Blogger stillruleall, at 2:04 AM  

  • I didnt actually read it, just copy and paste. I thought it might help

    By Blogger stillruleall, at 2:04 AM  

  • yup that was it. Two years, Yay!!

    By Blogger Rolling hills of green, at 9:29 AM  

  • I knew it was familiar. Incidentally, a similar thing happened to me on July 13, 1987.

    By Blogger Veev, at 10:26 AM  

  • i know, i know. the kateses amde aliyah

    By Blogger Air Time, at 4:31 PM  

  • Thanks, Dear.

    By Blogger Veev, at 1:31 PM  

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