July 21 NATIONAL HOLIDAYS: EVENTS: BIRTHDAYS:

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Today is Friday, July 21, 2023.

 

👉 NATIONAL HOLIDAYS:

🇸🇬 Singapore - Racial Harmony Day.
🇬🇺 Guam - Independence Day.
🇧🇪 Belgium - National Day.

 

👉 EVENTS:

— mile. av. 356 - Herostratus burned the temple of Artemis.
— 365 — Alexander Lighthouse, one of the seven wonders of the world, was partially destroyed by an earthquake.
- 1542 - Pope Paul III created the Roman Inquisition to combat Protestantism.
- 1610 - Tea was brought to Europe for the first time.
- 1613 - Mikhail Romanov became the Tsar of Russia.
- 1718 - Pozharevsk Truce, which ended the Austrian-Turkish and Turkish-Venetian wars.
- 1773 - The Pope banned the Jesuit order.
- 1774 - Treaty of Kuchukkaynarji.
- 1798 - Battle near Ehram.
- 1822 - The establishment of the first Mexican Empire.
- 1831 - accession to the throne of the first king of Belgium, Leopold I.
— 1904 — the construction of the Great Siberian Railway, which lasted for 13 years, was completed. The official opening of the railway took place on January 1 next year.
- 1906 - 44-year-old Pyotr Stolypin was appointed head of the Russian government.
- 1917 - AF Kerensky headed the Provisional Government.
- 1918 - the Tatars turned to Germany with a request to declare the conquered Crimean peninsula as the Tatar Khanate.
- 1925 - USSR joined the International Metric Convention.
- 1940 - The command of Nazi Germany began to develop a military campaign against the Soviet Union - the "Barbarossa Plan".
- 1940 - The establishment of Soviet power was announced by the Diet of Latvia, Lithuania and the Dumsi of Estonia.
- 1941 - the first Luftwaffe raid on Moscow.
- 1954 - The Geneva Agreement, which ended the colonial war in Indochina, was signed.
- 1969 - Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin walked on the moon.
- 1970 - 11-year construction of the Aswan Dam in Egypt was completed.
— 1972 — Bloody Friday in Belfast: Terrorist attacks by Provisional IRA militants kill 9 and injure 130.
- 1983 - The world's lowest temperature in a place where people live was recorded at the Vostok station in Antarctica. This is -89,2 °C.
— 1994 — Writer Alexander Solzhenitsyn returned to Russia.
- 2007 - The seventh book of Harry Potter "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" was published in English.
— 2011 — The last flight of the Atlantic was completed. The Space Shuttle program is officially closed.
— 2012 — Turkish adventurer Erden Eruch became the first person in history to complete a solo circumnavigation of the Earth.

 

👉 BIRTHDAYS:

- Mil. avv. 356 - Alexander the Great (323 BC) - King of Macedonia (from 336 BC), general, founder of the world empire.
— 1620 — Jean Picard (1682) was a French priest and astronomer who first determined the size of the Earth.
- 1810 - Henri Reno (1878) - French chemist and physicist. - 1816 - Paul Julius Reiter (1899) - journalist, businessman, founder of the British "Reuters" news agency.
— 1897 — Vasily Sokolovsky (1968) — Marshal of the Soviet Union, Hero of the Soviet Union.
- 1899 - Ernest Hemingway (1961) - American writer, journalist, winner of the Nobel Prize (1954).
- 1923 - Rudolph Marcus - Canadian and American chemist, winner of the Nobel Prize (1992).
— 1928 — Akhmed Odilov — musician (chan), pedagogue. Honored Artist of Uzbekistan (1977).
— 1932 — Elena Dobronravova (1999) — theater and film actress, Honored Artist of the RSFSR.
— 1948 — Mikhail Zadornov — (2017) — Russian writer-satirist, dramatist, comedian and entertainer.
- 1969 - Avraham Russo - Russian pop singer.
- 1976 - Tatyana Lebedeva - Russian athlete, Olympic champion (2004), multiple world and European champion.
— 2002 — Rika Kihira is a Japanese figure skating master, two-time champion of four continents (2019 and 2020).