Besides the release of the new HP book, what other significant events happened or will happen on July 21?

Question

Just curious about what significant historical events happened on the day.

As for will happen just curious about what events are happening in your local area. Over here it's the annual Food Festival.

Just realise this is my 30th Question.

Answer 1

Well hre in Honolulu this weekend is the Annual Korean Festival featuring stars from Korean TV Dramas, a Hottest KIm Chee eating contest, dancing and music that is this weekend as to your initial question, July 21 is one of those 'big' days with lots of stuff historic wise.. Will resort to Wikipedia..

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/July_21

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356 BC - A young man called Herostratus set fire to the Temple of Artemis in Ephesus, one of the Seven Wonders of the World.
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 - 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 Léopold I of Belgium, first king of the Belgians.
1861 - American Civil War: First Battle of Bull Run - At Manassas Junction, Virginia, the first major battle of the war begins (Confederate victory).
1865 - In the market square of Springfield, Missouri, Wild Bill Hickok shoots Dave Tutt dead in what is regarded as the first true western showdown.
1873 - At Adair, Iowa, Jesse James and the James-Younger gang pull off the first successful train robbery in the American West.
1877 - After rioting by Baltimore and Ohio Railroad workers and the deaths of 9 rail workers at the hands of the Maryland militia, workers in Pittsburgh stage a sympathy strike that is met with an assault by the state militia.
1925 - Scopes Trial: In Dayton, Tennessee, high school biology teacher John T. Scopes is found guilty of teaching evolution in class and fined $100.
1931 - CBS's New York City station begins broadcasting the first regular seven days a week television schedule in the U.S.
1944 - World War II: Battle of Guam - American troops land on Guam starting the battle (ends on August 10).
1954 - First Indochina War: The Geneva Conference partitions Vietnam into North Vietnam and South Vietnam.
1960 - Sirimavo Bandaranaike becomes the first woman prime minister in the world, making her the first elected female national leader in the world (Sri Lanka).
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).
1969 - Neil A. Armstrong and Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin become the first men to walk on the Moon, during the Apollo 11 mission.
1970 - After 11 years of construction, the Aswan High Dam in Egypt is completed.
1972 - Bloody Friday bombing by the Provisional Irish Republican Army (PIRA) around Belfast, Northern Ireland - 22 bomb explosions, 9 people killed and 130 people seriously injured.
1973 - In the Lillehammer affair in Norway, Israeli Mossad agents kill a waiter whom they mistakenly thought was involved in 1972's Munich Olympics Massacre.
1976 - Christopher Ewart-Biggs British ambassador to the Republic of Ireland is assassinated by the Provisional IRA.
1977 - Start of a four day long Libyan-Egyptian War.
1983 - The world's lowest temperature is recorded at Vostok Station, Antarctica at −89.2°C (−129°F).
1984 - In Jackson, Michigan, a factory robot crushes a worker against a safety bar in apparently the first robot-related death in the United States.
1987 - Guns N' Roses release their debut album, Appetite for Destruction.
1994 - Tony Blair is declared the winner of the leadership election of the British Labour Party, paving the way to him becoming Prime Minister in 1997.
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.
2002 - Telecom giant WorldCom files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in the largest such filing in United States history.
2004 - The United Kingdom government publishes Delivering Security in a Changing World, a paper detailing wide-ranging reform of the country's armed forces.
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 escaped.

Births
1414 - Pope Sixtus IV (d. 1484)
1515 - Philip Neri, Italian churchman (d. 1595)
1620 - Jean Picard, French astronomer (d. 1682)
1664 - Matthew Prior, English poet and diplomat (d. 1721)
1693 - Thomas Pelham-Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1768)
1710 - Paul Möhring, German physician (d. 1792)
1810 - Henri Victor Regnault, French chemist (d. 1878)
1858 - Lovis Corinth, German painter (d. 1925)
1858 - Maria Christina of Austria, queen of Spain (d. 1929)
1858 - Alfred Henry O'Keeffe, New Zealand artist (d. 1941)
1870 - Emil Orlik, Czech painter (d. 1932)
1882 - David Burliuk, Ukrainian artist (d. 1967)
1893 - Hans Fallada, German writer (d. 1947)
1899 - Hart Crane, American poet (d. 1932)
1899 - Ernest Hemingway, American writer, Nobel laureate (d. 1961)
1903 - Roy Neuberger, American financier
1911 - Marshall McLuhan, Canadian author (d. 1980)
1920 - Constance Dowling, American actress (d. 1969)
1920 - Isaac Stern, Ukrainian-born violinist (d. 2001)
1923 - Rudolph A. Marcus, Canadian chemist, Nobel laureate
1922 - Kay Starr, American singer
1924 - Don Knotts, American actor (d. 2006)
1925 - Anne Meacham, American actress
1926 - Norman Jewison, Canadian film director
1926 - Rahimuddin Khan, Pakistani general
1926 - Paul Burke, American actor
1929 - Bob Orton, Sr., wrestler (d. 2006)
1932 - Ernie Warlick, American football player
1933 - John Gardner, American author (d. 1982)
1935 - Norbert Blüm, German politician
1935 - Moe Drabowsky, baseball player (d. 2006)
1938 - Janet Reno, 79th United States Attorney General
1939 - John Negroponte, 1st United States Director of National Intelligence
1943 - Edward Herrmann, American actor
1944 - Tony Scott, British film director
1944 - Paul Wellstone, American politician (d. 2002)
1945 - John Lowe, English darts player
1946 - Kenneth Starr, American lawyer
1948 - Ed Hinton, American sportswriter
1948 - Yusuf Islam, English singer
1948 - Garry Trudeau, American cartoonist
1949 - Al Hrabosky, baseball player
1950 - Ubaldo Fillol, Argentinian footballer
1951 - Robin Williams, American comedian/actor
1953 - Brian Talbot, British footballer
1955 - Howie Epstein, American musician (d. 2003)
1955 - Taco Ockerse, Indonesian singer
1957 - Jon Lovitz, American comedian
1957 - George Landress, American songwriter, music producer and sound engineer
1959 - Paul "Fatty" Vautin, Australian rugby league player
1960 - Lance Guest, American actor
1960 - Fritz Walter, German footballer
1961 - Amar Singh Chamkila, Punjabi folk singer
1961 - "Big" Jim Martin, American musician (Faith No More)
1963 - Kevin Poole, English footballer
1964 - Jens Weißflog, German ski jumper
1965 - Gudni Bergsson, Icelandic footballer
1968 - Brandi Chastain, American soccer player
1968 - Lyle Odelein, Canadian hockey player
1969 - Emerson Hart, American musician (Tonic)
1970 - Shawn Stasiak, American professional wrestler
1971 - Nuno Markl, Portuguese comedian and radio host
1971 - Emmanuel Bangué, French long jumper
1978 - Josh Hartnett, American actor
1978 - Justin Bartha, American actor
1978 - Damian Marley, Jamacian musician
1979 - David Carr, American football player
1979 - Tamika Catchings, American basketball player
1980 - C.C. Sabathia, American baseball player
1981 - Titus Bramble, English footballer
1981 - Stefan Schumacher, German cyclist
1981 - Veronica Belmont, CNET TV personality
1981 - Blake Lewis, American Idol finalist
1981 - Joaquín Sánchez, Spanish footballer
1982 - Claudette Ortiz, American soul singer
1983 - Eivør Pálsdóttir, Faroese singer
1983 - Kellen Winslow II, American football player
1984 - Liam Ridgewell, English footballer
1985 - Von Wafer, American basketball player
1989 - Jamie Waylett, British actor
Deaths
1403 - Henry Percy, English soldier (killed in battle)
1425 - Manuel II Palaeologus, Byzantine Emperor (b. 1350)
1688 - James Butler, 1st Duke of Ormonde, English statesman and soldier (b. 1610)
1793 - Bruni d'Entrecasteaux, French explorer (b. 1739)
1796 - Robert Burns, Scottish poet (b. 1759)
1798 - François Sebastien Charles Joseph de Croix, Count of Clerfayt, Austrian field marshal (b. 1733)
1870 - Josef Strauss, Austrian composer (b. 1827)
1880 - Hiram Walden, American politician (b. 1800)
1889 - Nelson Dewey, American politician, 1st Governor of Wisconsin (b. 1813)
1899 - Robert G. Ingersoll, American politician and military officer (b. 1833)
1899 - Sri Sarada Devi, Saint and wife of Sri Ramakrishna (b. 1853)
1932 - Bill Gleason, late 19th century baseball player
1936 - Georg Michaelis, 6th Chancellor of the German Empire (b. 1857)
1937 - Louis Vierne, French composer (b. 1870)
1938 - Owen Wister, American author (b. 1860)
1941 - Bohdan Lepky, Ukrainian writer and poet (b. 1872)
1943 - Charlie Paddock, American athlete (b. 1900)
1944 - Claus von Stauffenberg, German army colonel who tried to assassinate Hitler (b. 1907)
1944 - Ludwig Beck, German Chief of Staff (b. 1880)
1946 - Gualberto Villarroel, President of Bolivia (b. 1908)
1948 - David Wark Griffith, American film director (b. 1875)
1967 - Jimmie Foxx, 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, dancer and choreographer (b. 1878)
1970 - Mikhail Gerasimov, Russian anthropologist and sculptor (b. 1907)
1970 - Bob Kalsu, American football player (b. 1945)
1972 - Ralph Craig, American athlete (b. 1889)
1982 - Dave Garroway, American television host (b. 1913)
1986 - Ernest Maas, American screenwriter (b. 1892)
1998 - Alan Shepard, astronaut (b. 1923)
1998 - Robert Young, American actor (b. 1907)
2001 - Steve Barton, American actor (b. 1954)
2003 - John Davies, New Zealand Olympic Committee president (b. 1938)
2003 - Walter M. "Matt" Jefferies, American film art director (b. 1921)
2004 - Jerry Goldsmith, American composer (b. 1929)
2004 - Edward B. Lewis, American geneticist, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine laureate (b. 1918)
2005 - Andrzej Grubba, Polish table tennis player (b. 1958)
2005 - Long John Baldry, British blues musician (b. 1941)
2005 - Lord Alfred Hayes, British Wrestling Announcer for WWE (b. 1928)
2006 - Mako, Japanese-born American actor (b. 1933)
2006 - Ta Mok, "The Khmer Rouge Butcher", war criminal in Democratic Kampuchea (b. 1926)


Hope that's enough!!

Pax-------------------------------

Answer 2

Major Events of 1915 British and Commonwealth forces land in Gallipoli. The Lusitania sank by German U-Boat off Irish coast. Italy declares war on Austro-Hungary. Anglo-French forces land at Salonika, Greece. Germans introduce poison gas into warfare. Denmark grants the vote to women.

Answer 3

Well, I'm sure I'll get into a huge argument with my wife over who gets to read the book first. But that's kind of related isn't it. Sorry.

That other guy has a huge list though.