Post by farmgal on Jul 20, 2012 22:47:50 GMT -5
July 20 is the 203rd day of this leap year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 163 days remaining until the end of the year.
Days until Election Day, Tuesday November 6, 2012: 108
Countdown until Obama leaves Office www.obamaclock.org/
U.S. Debt Clock: www.usdebtclock.org/
Model of Temple of Artemis, Miniatürk Park, Istanbul, Turkey
356 BC The Temple of Artemis in Ephesus, one of the Seven Wonders of the World, is destroyed by arson.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temple_of_Artemis
230 Pope Pontian succeeds Urban I as the eighteenth pope.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_Pontian
365 A tsunami devastates the city of Alexandria, Egypt. The tsunami was caused by the Crete earthquake estimated to be 8.0 on the Richter Scale. 5,000 people perished in Alexandria, and 45,000 more died outside the city.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/365_Crete_earthquake#Tsunami
1773 Clement XIV issued the brief, 'Dominus ac redemptor noster,' officially dissolvingthe Society of Jesus (Jesuits). This politically-based suppression afterward left conspicuous gaps in Catholic education and foreign missions.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clement_XIV#Suppression_of_the_Jesuits
First Battle of Bull Run, chromolithograph by Kurz & Allison
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.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Battle_of_Bull_Run
1865 In the market square of Springfield, Missouri, Wild Bill Hickok shoots and kills Davis Tutt in what is regarded as the first western showdown.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wild_Bill_Hickok_%E2%80%93_Davis_Tutt_shootout
1873 At Adair, Iowa, Jesse James and the James-Younger Gang pull off the first successful train robbery in the American Old West.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adair,_Iowa
1877 After rioting by Baltimore and Ohio Railroad workers and
the deaths of nine rail workers at the hands of the Maryland militia, workers in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania stage a sympathy strike that is met with an assault by the state militia.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Railroad_Strike_of_1877#Pennsylvania
1886 The cardinal's hat was conferred upon Elzear Alexandre Taschereau, 66, archbishopof Quebec. He was the first Canadian to be made a cardinal in the Catholic Church.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elzear_Alexandre_Taschereau
1914 The Crown council of Romania decides the country shall remain neutral in World War I. When the Entente Powers promised Romania large territories of eastern Hungary (Transylvania and Banat) that had a large Romanian population in exchange for Romania's declaring war on the Central Powers, the Romanian government renounced its neutrality, and on 27 August 1916 the Romanian Army launched an attack against Austria-Hungary, with limited Russian support. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_I#Romanian_participation
1918 U-156 shells Nauset Beach, in Orleans, Massachusetts.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attack_on_Orleans
Wingfoot Air Express
1919 The dirigible Wingfoot Air Express crashes into the Illinois Trust and Savings Building in Chicago, Illinois, killing 12 people.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wingfoot_Air_Express_crash
1925 Scopes Trial: In Dayton, Tennessee, high school biology teacher John T. Scopes is found guilty of teaching evolution in class and fined $100.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_T._Scopes
Two U.S. officers plant the American flag on Guam eight minutes after U.S. Marines and Army assault troops landed
1944 World War II: Battle of Guam – American troops land on Guam starting the battle. It would end on August 10.
1944 World War II: Claus von Stauffenberg and fellow conspirators are executed in Berlin, Germany for the July 20 plot to assassinate Adolf Hitler.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claus_von_Stauffenberg
1949 The United States Senate ratifies the North Atlantic Treaty.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Atlantic_Treaty#U.S._ratification
1954 First Indochina War: The Geneva Conference partitions Vietnam into North Vietnam and South Vietnam.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geneva_Conference_(1954)
1959 Elijah Jerry "Pumpsie" Green becomes the first African-American to play for the Boston Red Sox, the last team to integrate. He came in as a pinch runner for Vic Wertz and stayed in as shortstop in a 2-1 loss to the Chicago White Sox.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pumpsie_Green
Launch of Mercury-Redstone 4
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).
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercury-Redstone_4
Aldrin bootprint; part of an experiment to test the properties of the lunar regolith
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).
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_11
1970 After 11 years of construction, the Aswan High Dam in Egypt is completed.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aswan_High_Dam
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.
1983 The world's lowest temperature is recorded at Vostok Station, Antarctica at -89.2 °C (-128.6 °F).
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vostok_Station
2001 At the conclusion of a fireworks display on Okura Beach in Akashi, Hyôgo, Japan, 11 people are killed and more than 120 are injured when a pedestrian footbridge connecting the beach to JR Asagiri railway station becomes overcrowded and people leaving the event fall down in a domino effect.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akashi,_Hy%C5%8Dgo#History
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.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/21_July_2005_London_bombings
2011 NASA's Space Shuttle program ends with the landing of Space Shuttle Atlantis on mission STS-135.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/STS-135
1762 Timothy Hinman, pioneer road builder
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timothy_Hinman
1829 Priscilla Jane Owens, public school teacher, a Methodist who remained in Baltimore all her life, she left behind two enduring hymns: 'We Have an Anchor' and 'Jesus Saves.'
www.hymntime.com/tch/bio/o/w/e/owens_pj.htm
www.hymnary.org/person/Owens_PJ
1851 Sam Bass, American train robber and outlaw (d. 1878)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Bass
1898 Sara Carter, Carter Family vocalist/guitarist (d. 1979)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sara_Carter
1899 Hart Crane, American poet (d. 1932)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hart_Crane
1899 Ernest Hemingway, American writer, Nobel laureate (d. 1961)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernest_Hemingway
Roy Neuberger (center, seated) receiving the National Medal of Arts from George W. Bush
1903 Roy Neuberger, American financier (d. 2010)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy_Neuberger
1908 Harold "Jug" McSpaden, American professional golfer (d. 1996)
1911 Marshall McLuhan, Canadian author and media theorist (d. 1980)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marshall_McLuhan
1920 Constance Dowling, American actress (d. 1969)
1922 Kay Starr, American singer
1924 Don Knotts, American actor (d. 2006)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Knotts
1925 Anne Meacham, American actress (d. 2006)
1926 Paul Burke, American actor (d. 2009)
1926 Norman Jewison, Canadian film director
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norman_Jewison
1929 Bob Orton Sr., American wrestler (d. 2006)
1930 Helen Merrill, American jazz vocalist
1933 John Gardner, American author (d. 1982)
1935 Kaye Stevens, singer and actress
1935 Moe Drabowsky, baseball player (d. 2006)
1938 Les Aspin, American politician (d. 1995)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Les_Aspin
1938 Janet Reno,79th United States Attorney General
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janet_Reno
1939 John Negroponte, 1st Director of National Intelligence
1942 Kim Fowley, American songwriter, musician, manager, and record producer
1943 Edward Herrmann, American actor
1944 Paul Wellstone, American politician (d. 2002)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Wellstone
1946 Ken Starr, American lawyer
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Starr
1948 Ed Hinton, American sportswriter
1948 Cat Stevens (Yusuf Islam), English singer-songwriter
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cat_Stevens
Trudeau at the 2012 Time 100 gala
1948 Garry Trudeau, American cartoonist
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garry_Trudeau
1948 Snooty, the oldest known Florida manatee
1949 Al Hrabosky, American baseball player
1951 Robin Williams, American comedian/actor
1952 John Barrasso, American politician
1955 Howie Epstein, American musician (d. 2003)
1956 Michael Connelly, American author
1957 Jon Lovitz, American comedian
1960 Lance Guest, American actor
1961 Jim Martin, American musician (Faith No More)
1963 Greg Behrendt, American comedian
1965 Mike Bordick, American baseball player
1966 Arija Bareikis, American actress
1968 Johnnie Barnes, American football player
1968 Brandi Chastain, American soccer player
1969 Godfrey, American comedian
1969 Emerson Hart, American musician (Tonic)
1970 Shawn Stasiak, American professional wrestler
1973 Ali Landry, American model and actress
1974 Geoff Jenkins, American baseball player
1975 Mike Sellers, American football player
1978 Justin Bartha, American actor
1978 Josh Hartnett, American actor
1979 David Carr, American football player
1979 Tamika Catchings, American basketball player
1980 CC Sabathia, American baseball player
1981 Blake Lewis, American musician
1981 Chrishell Stause, American actres
1983 Kellen Winslow II, American football player
1985 Von Wafer, American basketball player
1988 DeAndre Jordan, American basketball player
1989 Rory Culkin, American actor
1989 Chelsie Hightower, American professional dancer (Dancing with the Stars, former So You Think You Can Dance contestant)
1992 Rachael Flatt, American figure skater
1793 Bruni d'Entrecasteaux, (b 1739) French navigator who explored the Australian coast in 1792 while seeking traces of the lost expedition of La Pérouse.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruni_d%27Entrecasteaux
1796 Robert Burns, (b 1759) (also known as Rabbie Burns, Scotland's favourite son, the Ploughman Poet, Robden of Solway Firth, the Bard of Ayrshire and in Scotland as The Bard) Scottish poet and a lyricist. He is widely regarded as the national poet of Scotland, and is celebrated worldwide. He is the best known of the poets who have written in the Scots language, although much of his writing is also in English and a "light" Scots dialect, accessible to an audience beyond Scotland. He also wrote in standard English, and in these his political or civil commentary is often at its most blunt.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Burns
1878 Sam Bass, American train robber and outlaw (b. 1851)
1899 Robert G. Ingersoll, (d 1833) Civil War veteran, American political leader, and orator during the Golden Age of Freethought, noted for his broad range of culture and his defense of agnosticism. He was nicknamed "The Great Agnostic."
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_G._Ingersoll
1932 Bill Gleason, American baseball player (b. 1858)
1938 Owen Wister, American author (b. 1860)
1943 Charley Paddock, (b 1900) American athlete, he ran the 110 yd, which is slightly more than 100 m, in 10.2 seconds. It wasn't until 1956 that the World Record for the 100 m became lower than Paddock's time. In addition, he broke or equalled several other World Records.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charley_Paddock
1944 Claus von Stauffenberg, German military officer and head of the failed 20 July plot to assassinate Adolf Hitler (b. 1907)
1948 Arshile Gorky, Armenian-born American artist (b. 1904)
1967 Jimmie Foxx, American baseball player (b. 1907)
1967 Albert Lutuli, South African politician, Nobel Peace Prize laureate
1967 Basil Rathbone, English actor (b. 1892)
1968 Ruth St. Denis, (b. 1878) American dancer and choreographer (b. 1878)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruth_St._Denis
1972 Ralph Craig, American athlete (b. 1889)
1977 Lee Miller, American photographer (b. 1907)
1982 Dave Garroway, American television host (b. 1913)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave_Garroway
1986 Ernest Maas, American screenwriter (b. 1892)
1998 Alan Shepard, American astronaut (b. 1923)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Shepard
1998 Robert Young, (b 1907) American television, film, and radio actor, best known for his leading roles as Jim Anderson, the father character in Father Knows Best (NBC and then CBS), and the physician Marcus Welby in Marcus Welby, M.D. (ABC).
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Young_(actor)
2000 Marc Reisner, American writer (b. 1948)
2001 Steve Barton, American actor (b. 1954)
2003 Matt Jefferies, American film art director (b. 1921)
2004 Jerry Goldsmith, American composer (b. 1929)
2004 Edward B. Lewis, (b 1918) American geneticist, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine laureate
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_B._Lewis
2006 Mako Iwamatsu, Japanese-born American actor (b. 1933)
2006 Herbert "Herbie" Kalin, American singer (The Kalin Twins) (b. 1934)
Holidays and observances
Christian Feast Day:
Arbogast
Daniel (Catholic Church)
Lawrence of Brindisi
Praxedes
Victor of Marseilles
July 21 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
Saints
Venerable Simeon of Emessa, Fool-for-Christ, and with him St. John (590)
Prophet Ezekiel (6th century BC)
Venerable Onuphrius the Silent of Kiev Caves Monastery (13th century)
Venerable Onesimus, recluse of the Kiev Caves Monastery (13th century)
Martyr Victor of Marseilles
Saint Anna, mother of Saint Sebbas the Serbian
Martyr Justus
Martyr Matthias
Martyr Eugene
Martyr Theodore
Martyr George
Martyr Acacius of Constantinople
Saint Eleutherius of Dry Hill
Saint Parthenius of Radovizlios
Other commemorations
Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos of "Armatia"
Uncovering of the relics of Saint Anna of Kashin
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/July_21_(Eastern_Orthodox_liturgics)
www.hymntime.com/tch/index.htm
www.daysuntil.com/Election-Day/index.html
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/July_21
Days until Election Day, Tuesday November 6, 2012: 108
Countdown until Obama leaves Office www.obamaclock.org/
U.S. Debt Clock: www.usdebtclock.org/
Model of Temple of Artemis, Miniatürk Park, Istanbul, Turkey
356 BC The Temple of Artemis in Ephesus, one of the Seven Wonders of the World, is destroyed by arson.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temple_of_Artemis
230 Pope Pontian succeeds Urban I as the eighteenth pope.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_Pontian
365 A tsunami devastates the city of Alexandria, Egypt. The tsunami was caused by the Crete earthquake estimated to be 8.0 on the Richter Scale. 5,000 people perished in Alexandria, and 45,000 more died outside the city.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/365_Crete_earthquake#Tsunami
1773 Clement XIV issued the brief, 'Dominus ac redemptor noster,' officially dissolvingthe Society of Jesus (Jesuits). This politically-based suppression afterward left conspicuous gaps in Catholic education and foreign missions.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clement_XIV#Suppression_of_the_Jesuits
First Battle of Bull Run, chromolithograph by Kurz & Allison
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.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Battle_of_Bull_Run
1865 In the market square of Springfield, Missouri, Wild Bill Hickok shoots and kills Davis Tutt in what is regarded as the first western showdown.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wild_Bill_Hickok_%E2%80%93_Davis_Tutt_shootout
1873 At Adair, Iowa, Jesse James and the James-Younger Gang pull off the first successful train robbery in the American Old West.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adair,_Iowa
1877 After rioting by Baltimore and Ohio Railroad workers and
the deaths of nine rail workers at the hands of the Maryland militia, workers in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania stage a sympathy strike that is met with an assault by the state militia.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Railroad_Strike_of_1877#Pennsylvania
1886 The cardinal's hat was conferred upon Elzear Alexandre Taschereau, 66, archbishopof Quebec. He was the first Canadian to be made a cardinal in the Catholic Church.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elzear_Alexandre_Taschereau
1914 The Crown council of Romania decides the country shall remain neutral in World War I. When the Entente Powers promised Romania large territories of eastern Hungary (Transylvania and Banat) that had a large Romanian population in exchange for Romania's declaring war on the Central Powers, the Romanian government renounced its neutrality, and on 27 August 1916 the Romanian Army launched an attack against Austria-Hungary, with limited Russian support. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_I#Romanian_participation
1918 U-156 shells Nauset Beach, in Orleans, Massachusetts.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attack_on_Orleans
Wingfoot Air Express
1919 The dirigible Wingfoot Air Express crashes into the Illinois Trust and Savings Building in Chicago, Illinois, killing 12 people.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wingfoot_Air_Express_crash
1925 Scopes Trial: In Dayton, Tennessee, high school biology teacher John T. Scopes is found guilty of teaching evolution in class and fined $100.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_T._Scopes
Two U.S. officers plant the American flag on Guam eight minutes after U.S. Marines and Army assault troops landed
1944 World War II: Battle of Guam – American troops land on Guam starting the battle. It would end on August 10.
1944 World War II: Claus von Stauffenberg and fellow conspirators are executed in Berlin, Germany for the July 20 plot to assassinate Adolf Hitler.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claus_von_Stauffenberg
1949 The United States Senate ratifies the North Atlantic Treaty.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Atlantic_Treaty#U.S._ratification
1954 First Indochina War: The Geneva Conference partitions Vietnam into North Vietnam and South Vietnam.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geneva_Conference_(1954)
1959 Elijah Jerry "Pumpsie" Green becomes the first African-American to play for the Boston Red Sox, the last team to integrate. He came in as a pinch runner for Vic Wertz and stayed in as shortstop in a 2-1 loss to the Chicago White Sox.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pumpsie_Green
Launch of Mercury-Redstone 4
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).
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercury-Redstone_4
Aldrin bootprint; part of an experiment to test the properties of the lunar regolith
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).
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_11
1970 After 11 years of construction, the Aswan High Dam in Egypt is completed.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aswan_High_Dam
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.
1983 The world's lowest temperature is recorded at Vostok Station, Antarctica at -89.2 °C (-128.6 °F).
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vostok_Station
2001 At the conclusion of a fireworks display on Okura Beach in Akashi, Hyôgo, Japan, 11 people are killed and more than 120 are injured when a pedestrian footbridge connecting the beach to JR Asagiri railway station becomes overcrowded and people leaving the event fall down in a domino effect.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akashi,_Hy%C5%8Dgo#History
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.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/21_July_2005_London_bombings
upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/19/STS-135_Official_Crew_Photo.jpg/200px-STS-135_Official_Crew_Photo.jpg
Pictured in the STS-135 crew portrait are NASA astronauts Chris Ferguson (center right), commander; Doug Hurley (center left), pilot; Rex Walheim and Sandy Magnus, both mission specialists.
Pictured in the STS-135 crew portrait are NASA astronauts Chris Ferguson (center right), commander; Doug Hurley (center left), pilot; Rex Walheim and Sandy Magnus, both mission specialists.
2011 NASA's Space Shuttle program ends with the landing of Space Shuttle Atlantis on mission STS-135.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/STS-135
~~~~~~~BIRTHS~~~~~~~
1762 Timothy Hinman, pioneer road builder
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timothy_Hinman
1829 Priscilla Jane Owens, public school teacher, a Methodist who remained in Baltimore all her life, she left behind two enduring hymns: 'We Have an Anchor' and 'Jesus Saves.'
www.hymntime.com/tch/bio/o/w/e/owens_pj.htm
www.hymnary.org/person/Owens_PJ
1851 Sam Bass, American train robber and outlaw (d. 1878)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Bass
1898 Sara Carter, Carter Family vocalist/guitarist (d. 1979)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sara_Carter
1899 Hart Crane, American poet (d. 1932)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hart_Crane
1899 Ernest Hemingway, American writer, Nobel laureate (d. 1961)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernest_Hemingway
Roy Neuberger (center, seated) receiving the National Medal of Arts from George W. Bush
1903 Roy Neuberger, American financier (d. 2010)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy_Neuberger
1908 Harold "Jug" McSpaden, American professional golfer (d. 1996)
1911 Marshall McLuhan, Canadian author and media theorist (d. 1980)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marshall_McLuhan
1920 Constance Dowling, American actress (d. 1969)
1922 Kay Starr, American singer
1924 Don Knotts, American actor (d. 2006)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Knotts
1925 Anne Meacham, American actress (d. 2006)
1926 Paul Burke, American actor (d. 2009)
1926 Norman Jewison, Canadian film director
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norman_Jewison
1929 Bob Orton Sr., American wrestler (d. 2006)
1930 Helen Merrill, American jazz vocalist
1933 John Gardner, American author (d. 1982)
1935 Kaye Stevens, singer and actress
1935 Moe Drabowsky, baseball player (d. 2006)
1938 Les Aspin, American politician (d. 1995)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Les_Aspin
1938 Janet Reno,79th United States Attorney General
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janet_Reno
1939 John Negroponte, 1st Director of National Intelligence
1942 Kim Fowley, American songwriter, musician, manager, and record producer
1943 Edward Herrmann, American actor
1944 Paul Wellstone, American politician (d. 2002)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Wellstone
1946 Ken Starr, American lawyer
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Starr
1948 Ed Hinton, American sportswriter
1948 Cat Stevens (Yusuf Islam), English singer-songwriter
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cat_Stevens
Trudeau at the 2012 Time 100 gala
1948 Garry Trudeau, American cartoonist
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garry_Trudeau
1948 Snooty, the oldest known Florida manatee
1949 Al Hrabosky, American baseball player
1951 Robin Williams, American comedian/actor
1952 John Barrasso, American politician
1955 Howie Epstein, American musician (d. 2003)
1956 Michael Connelly, American author
1957 Jon Lovitz, American comedian
1960 Lance Guest, American actor
1961 Jim Martin, American musician (Faith No More)
1963 Greg Behrendt, American comedian
1965 Mike Bordick, American baseball player
1966 Arija Bareikis, American actress
1968 Johnnie Barnes, American football player
1968 Brandi Chastain, American soccer player
1969 Godfrey, American comedian
1969 Emerson Hart, American musician (Tonic)
1970 Shawn Stasiak, American professional wrestler
1973 Ali Landry, American model and actress
1974 Geoff Jenkins, American baseball player
1975 Mike Sellers, American football player
1978 Justin Bartha, American actor
1978 Josh Hartnett, American actor
1979 David Carr, American football player
1979 Tamika Catchings, American basketball player
1980 CC Sabathia, American baseball player
1981 Blake Lewis, American musician
1981 Chrishell Stause, American actres
1983 Kellen Winslow II, American football player
1985 Von Wafer, American basketball player
1988 DeAndre Jordan, American basketball player
1989 Rory Culkin, American actor
1989 Chelsie Hightower, American professional dancer (Dancing with the Stars, former So You Think You Can Dance contestant)
1992 Rachael Flatt, American figure skater
~~~~~~~DEATHS~~~~~~~
1793 Bruni d'Entrecasteaux, (b 1739) French navigator who explored the Australian coast in 1792 while seeking traces of the lost expedition of La Pérouse.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruni_d%27Entrecasteaux
1796 Robert Burns, (b 1759) (also known as Rabbie Burns, Scotland's favourite son, the Ploughman Poet, Robden of Solway Firth, the Bard of Ayrshire and in Scotland as The Bard) Scottish poet and a lyricist. He is widely regarded as the national poet of Scotland, and is celebrated worldwide. He is the best known of the poets who have written in the Scots language, although much of his writing is also in English and a "light" Scots dialect, accessible to an audience beyond Scotland. He also wrote in standard English, and in these his political or civil commentary is often at its most blunt.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Burns
1878 Sam Bass, American train robber and outlaw (b. 1851)
1899 Robert G. Ingersoll, (d 1833) Civil War veteran, American political leader, and orator during the Golden Age of Freethought, noted for his broad range of culture and his defense of agnosticism. He was nicknamed "The Great Agnostic."
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_G._Ingersoll
1932 Bill Gleason, American baseball player (b. 1858)
1938 Owen Wister, American author (b. 1860)
1943 Charley Paddock, (b 1900) American athlete, he ran the 110 yd, which is slightly more than 100 m, in 10.2 seconds. It wasn't until 1956 that the World Record for the 100 m became lower than Paddock's time. In addition, he broke or equalled several other World Records.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charley_Paddock
1944 Claus von Stauffenberg, German military officer and head of the failed 20 July plot to assassinate Adolf Hitler (b. 1907)
1948 Arshile Gorky, Armenian-born American artist (b. 1904)
1967 Jimmie Foxx, American baseball player (b. 1907)
1967 Albert Lutuli, South African politician, Nobel Peace Prize laureate
1967 Basil Rathbone, English actor (b. 1892)
1968 Ruth St. Denis, (b. 1878) American dancer and choreographer (b. 1878)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruth_St._Denis
1972 Ralph Craig, American athlete (b. 1889)
1977 Lee Miller, American photographer (b. 1907)
1982 Dave Garroway, American television host (b. 1913)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave_Garroway
1986 Ernest Maas, American screenwriter (b. 1892)
1998 Alan Shepard, American astronaut (b. 1923)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Shepard
1998 Robert Young, (b 1907) American television, film, and radio actor, best known for his leading roles as Jim Anderson, the father character in Father Knows Best (NBC and then CBS), and the physician Marcus Welby in Marcus Welby, M.D. (ABC).
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Young_(actor)
2000 Marc Reisner, American writer (b. 1948)
2001 Steve Barton, American actor (b. 1954)
2003 Matt Jefferies, American film art director (b. 1921)
2004 Jerry Goldsmith, American composer (b. 1929)
2004 Edward B. Lewis, (b 1918) American geneticist, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine laureate
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_B._Lewis
2006 Mako Iwamatsu, Japanese-born American actor (b. 1933)
2006 Herbert "Herbie" Kalin, American singer (The Kalin Twins) (b. 1934)
Holidays and observances
Christian Feast Day:
Arbogast
Daniel (Catholic Church)
Lawrence of Brindisi
Praxedes
Victor of Marseilles
July 21 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
Saints
Venerable Simeon of Emessa, Fool-for-Christ, and with him St. John (590)
Prophet Ezekiel (6th century BC)
Venerable Onuphrius the Silent of Kiev Caves Monastery (13th century)
Venerable Onesimus, recluse of the Kiev Caves Monastery (13th century)
Martyr Victor of Marseilles
Saint Anna, mother of Saint Sebbas the Serbian
Martyr Justus
Martyr Matthias
Martyr Eugene
Martyr Theodore
Martyr George
Martyr Acacius of Constantinople
Saint Eleutherius of Dry Hill
Saint Parthenius of Radovizlios
Other commemorations
Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos of "Armatia"
Uncovering of the relics of Saint Anna of Kashin
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/July_21_(Eastern_Orthodox_liturgics)
www.hymntime.com/tch/index.htm
www.daysuntil.com/Election-Day/index.html
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/July_21