About July 21
July 21, 2025 is the 202nd day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 163 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Monday.
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Cancer is the sun 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 211 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On July 21
- 230 –Pope Pontian succeeds Urban I as the eighteenth pope.
- 285 –Diocletian appoints Maximian as Caesar and co-ruler.
- 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.
- 1403 –Battle of Shrewsbury: King Henry IV of England defeats rebels to the north of the county town of Shropshire, England.
- 1568 –Eighty Years’ War: Battle of Jemmingen – Fernando Álvarez de Toledo, Duke of Alva defeats Louis of Nassau.
- 1718 –The Treaty of Passarowitz between the Ottoman Empire, Austria and the Republic of Venice is signed.
- 1774 –Russo-Turkish War, 1768-1774: Russia and the Ottoman Empire sign the Treaty of Kuchuk-Kainarji ending the war.
- 1831 –Inauguration of Leopold I of Belgium, first king of the Belgians.
- 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.
- 1914 –The Crown council of Romania decides the country shall remain neutral in World War I
- 1918 –SMU U-156 shells Nauset Beach, in Orleans, Massachusetts.
- 1944 –World War II: Battle of Guam – American troops land on Guam starting the battle. It would end on August 10.
- 1949 –The United States Senate ratifies the North Atlantic Treaty.
- 1954 –First Indochina War: The Geneva Conference partitions Vietnam into North Vietnam and South Vietnam.
- 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.
- 1983 –The world’s lowest temperature is recorded at Vostok Station, Antarctica at -89.2 °C.
- 1995 –Third Taiwan Strait Crisis: The People’s Liberation Army begins firing missiles into the waters north of Taiwan.
- 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.
- 2011 –NASA’s Space Shuttle program ends with the landing of Space Shuttle Atlantis on mission STS-135.
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