What are the important events that happened on July 21? Here are historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.

July 21: Facts & Myths About This Day

July 21 is the 203^rd day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 163 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Sunday.

Under the Julian calendar, this day is July 8, 2024 – a Sunday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?

When this day started, 1,721,520,000 seconds has elapsed since midnight of January 1, 1970 – the Unix epoch.

Strange as it may, if we name this day after a polygon then it will be called ‘dihectatrigon’ day.

Cancer is the zodiac sign of a person born on this day. Ruby is the modern birthstone for this month. Ruby is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.

According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 192 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.

The ancient Maya civilization believes that the end of the world will happen on December 21, 2012. There are now 4,230 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.

July 21 Historical Events

• 230 –
  Pope Pontian succeeds Urban I as the eighteenth pope.
• 1718 –
  The Treaty of Passarowitz between the Ottoman Empire, Austria and the Republic of Venice is signed.
• 1861 –
  American Civil War: First Battle of Bull Run – at Manassas Junction, Virginia, the first major battle of the war begins and ends in a victory for the Confederate army.
• 1873 –
  At Adair, Iowa, Jesse James and the James-Younger Gang pull off the first successful train robbery in the American Old West.
• 1918 –
  SMU U-156 shells Nauset Beach, in Orleans, Massachusetts.
• 1944 –
  World War II: Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg and fellow conspirators are executed in Berlin, Germany for the July 20 plot to assassinate Adolf Hitler.
• 1969 –
  Space Race: Neil Armstrong and Edwin “Buzz” Aldrin become the first humans to walk on the Moon, during the Apollo 11 mission (July 20 in North America).
• 1983 –
  The world’s lowest temperature is recorded at Vostok Station, Antarctica at -89.2 °C.
• 1997 –
  The fully restored USS Constitution (aka Old Ironsides) celebrates her 200th birthday by setting sail for the first time in 116 years.
• 2005 –
  Four terrorist bombings, occurring exactly two weeks after the similar July 7 bombings, target London’s public transportation system. All four bombs fail to detonate and all four suspected suicide bombers are captured and later convicted and imprisoned for long terms.

Who were born on July 21?

• 1816 –
  Paul Reuter, German-born British journalist (d. 1899)
• 1928 –
  Marcel Gauthier, Canadian wrestler (d. 1998)
• 1930 –
  Anand Bakshi, Indian lyricist (d. 2002)
• 1935 –
  Kaye Stevens, singer and actress
• 1944 –
  Paul Wellstone, American politician (d. 2002)
• 1948 –
  Snooty, the oldest known Florida manatee
• 1968 –
  Brandi Chastain, American soccer player
• 1975 –
  Mike Sellers, American football player
• 1981 –
  Chrishell Stause, American actress
• 1989 –
  Rory Culkin, American actor

Who died on July 21?

• 1425 –
  Manuel II Palaeologus, Byzantine Emperor (b. 1350)
• 1798 –
  François Sebastien Charles Joseph de Croix, Count of Clerfayt, Austrian field marshal (b. 1733)
• 1889 –
  Nelson Dewey, American politician (b. 1813)
• 1943 –
  Charlie Paddock, American athlete (b. 1900)
• 1948 –
  Arshile Gorky, Armenian-born American artist (b. 1904)
• 1968 –
  Ruth St. Denis, American dancer and choreographer (b. 1878)
• 1972 –
  Jigme Dorji Wangchuck, Third king of Bhutan (b. 1928)
• 1991 –
  Paul Warwick, English racing driver (b. 1969)
• 2005 –
  Long John Baldry, British blues musician (b. 1941)
• 2011 –
  Lucian Freud, Realist painter (b. 1922)