21 July
Notable Births
Endrick (footballer, born 2006)
b. 2006
Brazilian footballer (born 2006)
Erling Haaland
b. 2000
Norwegian footballer (born 2000)
Lia (South Korean singer)
b. 2000
South Korean singer (born 2000)
Evan McPherson
b. 1999
American football player (born 1999)
Maggie Lindemann
b. 1998
American singer-songwriter (born 1998)
Marie Bouzková
b. 1998
Czech tennis player (born 1998)
Jessica Barden
b. 1992
English actress (born 1992)
Julia Beljajeva
b. 1992
Estonian fencer (born 1992)
Giovanni De Gennaro (canoeist)
b. 1992
Italian slalom canoeist (born 1992)
Charlotte de Witte
b. 1992
Belgian DJ and record producer
Dawid Dryja
b. 1992
Polish volleyball player (born 1992)
Rachael Flatt
b. 1992
American figure skater
Marcus Harris (cricketer)
b. 1992
Australian cricketer (born 1992)
Jonathon Jennings
b. 1992
American gridiron football player (born 1992)
Dante Marini
b. 1992
American soccer player
Andrew Rayel
b. 1992
Moldovan DJ
Yuka Sato (javelin thrower)
b. 1992
Japanese javelin thrower
Miles Ukaoma
b. 1992
Nigerian athlete
Sara Sampaio
b. 1991
Portuguese actress and model (born 1991)
Tamika Catchings
b. 1979
American basketball player (born 1979)
Notable Deaths
Pau Alsina
d. 2025
Spanish motorcycle racer (2008–2025)
Tony Bennett
d. 2023
American singer (1926–2023)
Annie Ross
d. 2020
British-American jazz singer and actress (1930–2020)
Alene Duerk
d. 2018
United States Navy admiral (1920–2018)
John Heard (actor)
d. 2017
American actor (1946–2017)
Dennis Green
d. 2016
American gridiron football player, coach (1949–2016)
Robert Broberg
d. 2015
Musical artist
E. L. Doctorow
d. 2015
American novelist and editor (1931–2015)
Dick Nanninga
d. 2015
Dutch footballer (1949–2015)
Dan Borislow
d. 2014
American entrepreneur, sports team owner and thoroughbred horse breeder
Lettice Curtis
d. 2014
English female aviator; Air Transport Auxiliary pilot
Kevin Skinner (rugby union)
d. 2014
New Zealand rugby union player
Alexander Cockburn
d. 2012
Scottish-born Irish-American political journalist and writer
Marie Kruckel
d. 2012
American baseball player
Ali Podrimja
d. 2012
Albanian poet
James D. Ramage
d. 2012
American admiral (1916–2012)
Angharad Rees
d. 2012
British actress (1944–2012)
Luis Corvalán
d. 2010
Chilean politician (1916–2010)
Ralph Houk
d. 2010
American baseball player and coach (1919-2010)
Mako (actor)
d. 2006
Japanese and American actor (1933–2006)
On This Day in History
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2025
A Bangladesh Air Force Chengdu FT-7BGI crashes shortly after takeoff into Milestone School campus in Dhaka, Bangladesh, killing 35 people and injuring 173.
Bangladesh Air Force
2024
U.S. President Joe Biden announces he will no longer seek a second term and withdraws from the 2024 election, endorsing Vice President Kamala Harris as she launches her own presidential campaign.
Joe Biden
2023
The Barbenheimer phenomenon begins as two major motion pictures, Greta Gerwig's fantasy comedy Barbie and Christopher Nolan's epic biographical thriller Oppenheimer, are released in theaters on the same day and audiences, instead of creating a rivalry between the extremely dissimilar films, instead attend and praise both as an informal, surreal double feature.
Barbenheimer
2019
Yuen Long attack or "721 incident" in Hong Kong. Triad members indiscriminately beat civilians returning from protests while police failed to take action.
2019 Yuen Long attack
2012
Erden Eruç completes the first solo human-powered circumnavigation of the world.
Erden Eruç
2011
NASA's Space Shuttle program ends with the landing of Space Shuttle Atlantis on mission STS-135 at NASA's Kennedy Space Center.
NASA
2010
U.S. President Barack Obama signs the Dodd–Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act.
Barack Obama
2008
Ram Baran Yadav is declared the first President of Nepal.
Ram Baran Yadav
2005
Four attempted bomb attacks by Islamist extremists disrupt part of London's public transport system.
21 July 2005 London attempted bombings
2001
At the conclusion of a fireworks display on Okura Beach in Akashi, Hyōgo, Japan, 11 people are killed and more than 120 are injured when a pedestrian footbridge connecting the beach to JR Asagiri Station becomes overcrowded and people leaving the event fall down in a domino effect.
Akashi, Hyōgo
1995
Third Taiwan Strait Crisis: The People's Liberation Army begins firing missiles into the waters north of Taiwan.
Third Taiwan Strait Crisis
1990
Taiwan's military police forces mainland Chinese illegal immigrants into sealed holds of a fishing boat Min Ping Yu No. 5540 for repatriation to Fujian, causing 25 people to die from suffocation.
Republic of China Military Police
1983
The world's lowest temperature in an inhabited location is recorded at Vostok Station, Antarctica at −89.2 °C (−128.6 °F).
Lowest temperature recorded on Earth
1979
Jay Silverheels, a Mohawk actor, becomes the first Native American to have a star commemorated in the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
Jay Silverheels
1977
The start of the four-day-long Libyan–Egyptian War.
Egyptian–Libyan War
1976
Christopher Ewart-Biggs, the British ambassador to the Republic of Ireland, is assassinated by the Provisional IRA.
Christopher Ewart-Biggs
1973
In Lillehammer, Norway, Mossad agents kill a waiter whom they mistakenly thought was involved in the 1972 Munich Olympics Massacre.
Lillehammer affair
1972
The Troubles: Bloody Friday: The Provisional IRA detonate 22 bombs in central Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom in the space of 80 minutes, killing nine and injuring 130.
The Troubles
1970
After 11 years of construction, the Aswan High Dam in Egypt is completed.
Aswan High Dam
1969
Apollo program: At 02:56 UTC, astronaut Neil Armstrong becomes the first person to walk on the Moon, followed 19 minutes later by Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin.
Apollo program