Scopes Trial: In Dayton, Tennessee, high school biology teacher John T. Scopes is found guilty of teaching human evolution in class and fined $100. The…
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21 July 1944
Claus von Stauffenberg and four fellow conspirators are executed for the July 20 plot to assassinate Adolf Hitler. Claus von Stauffenberg was a German army…
21 July 1925
Scopes Trial: In Dayton, Tennessee, high school biology teacher John T. Scopes is found guilty of teaching human evolution in class and fined $100. The…
21 July 2011
NASA’s Space Shuttle program ends with the landing of Space Shuttle Atlantis on mission STS-135 at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center
21 July 1970
After 11 years of construction, the Aswan High Dam in Egypt is completed. [rdp-wiki-embed url=’https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aswan_Dam’]
21 July 1969
Astronaut Neil Armstrong becomes the first person to walk on the Moon. Neil Armstrong was a NASA astronaut most famous for being the first person…
21 July 2005
The London bombings occur. On Thursday 21 July 2005, four attempted bomb attacks disrupted part of London’s public transport system two weeks after the 7…
21 July 1983
The lowest temperature ever recorded in an inhabited location is recorded at Vostok Station in Antarctica at ?89.2 °C.