Vero - Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/July 21

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  Bull Run
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  John T. Scopes
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  Soldier with a queue
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  Astronaut Buzz Aldrin on Template:Nowrap
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  Buzz Aldrin
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  Depiction of the Ciompi Revolt
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  Model of the Temple of Artemis
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  Wild Bill Hickok
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  Aswan High Dam
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  Gualberto Villarroel
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  Sirimavo Bandaranaike
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  Yuen Long attack

Ineligible

Blurb	Reason
; Liberation Day in Guam (1944)	refimprove sections, outdated
Racial Harmony Day in Singapore (1964)	unreferenced section
356 BC – The Temple of Artemis in Ephesus, one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, was destroyed in an act of arson by a man named Herostratus.	lots of PN tags (6)
1774 – The victorious Russian Empire and the defeated Ottoman Empire signed the Treaty of Küçük Kaynarca, officially ending the Russo-Turkish War.	unreffed material
1831 – Following the Belgian Revolution, Leopold I was inaugurated as the first king of the Belgians at the Place Royale in Brussels.	Unref material
1403 – Forces under Henry IV of England defeated a rebel army led by Henry "Hotspur" Percy at the Battle of Shrewsbury in what is now Battlefield, Shropshire.	refimprove section
1645 – Qing dynasty regent Dorgon issued an edict ordering all Han Chinese men to shave their forehead and braid the rest of their hair into a queue identical to those of the Manchus.	multiple issues
1861 – In the First Battle of Bull Run, the first major land battle in the American Civil War, the Confederate Army under Joseph E. Johnston and [[P. G. T. Beauregard|Template:Nowrap Beauregard]] routed Union Army troops under Irvin McDowell.	unreferenced section
1865 – In one of the few recorded instances of a "quick draw" gun duel in the American Old West, Wild Bill Hickok shot and killed Davis Tutt over a poker debt.	lots of CN tags (8)
1944 – World War II: American troops landed on Guam to liberate it from Japanese control.	single source
1944 - 20 July plot	too many {cn} tags
1954 – First Indochina War: The Vietnamese Demilitarized Zone was established at the Geneva Conference, partitioning Vietnam along the 17th parallel north into two zones: North Vietnam led by Ho Chi Minh and South Vietnam under Bảo Đại.	unreferenced section
1964 – Race riots began in Padang, Singapore (then part of Malaysia) during a Malay procession marking Muhammad's birthday, leaving 23 people dead, 450 people injured, significant damage to property and vehicles, and a government imposed 11-day curfew.	refimprove, page numbers needed
1969 – During the Apollo 11 mission, Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin became the first humans to walk on the Moon.	Apollo 11-related articles TFA and POTD on July 20 (2021)
1970 – The Aswan High Dam in Egypt was completed after 11 years of construction.	refimprove section
1973 – Mossad agents killed a Moroccan waiter in Lillehammer, Norway, mistakenly believing he had been involved in the 1972 Munich Olympics massacre.	Citation issues
1995 – The Chinese People's Liberation Army began firing missiles into the waters north of Taiwan, starting the Third Taiwan Strait Crisis.	refimprove
2012 – Turkish adventurer Erden Eruç became the first person in history to complete a solo human-powered circumnavigation of the Earth.	primary sources
Brandi Chastain |b|1968	unreferenced "Career statistics"
Rachael Flatt |b|1992	unreferenced "detailed results"
Hubert Lyautey |d|1934|	Date uncertain

Eligible

• 230 – Pope Pontian began his pontificate, succeeding [[Pope Urban I|Template:Nowrap]].
• 365 – A large earthquake occurred near Crete, triggering a tsunami, and causing widespread destruction around the eastern Mediterranean region.
• 625 – Paulinus was consecrated as the first bishop of York by Justus, the archbishop of Canterbury.
• 1378 – Unrepresented labourers revolted and violently took over the government of the Republic of Florence (depicted), demanding that they be granted political office.
• 1918 – World War I: An Imperial German Navy U-boat opened fire on a small convoy of barges and defending aircraft near the American town of Orleans, Massachusetts.
• 1925 – American high school biology teacher John T. Scopes was found guilty of violating Tennessee's Butler Act by teaching evolution in class.
• 1946 – After weeks of unrest, rioters lynched Bolivian president Gualberto Villarroel, desecrating and hanging his corpse in the streets of La Paz.
• 1952 – An earthquake registering 7.3 M_w struck the southern San Joaquin Valley in California, causing 12 deaths and an estimated $60 million in property damage.
• 1959 – The inaugural International Mathematical Olympiad, the leading mathematical competition for pre-university students, began in Romania.
• 1972 – The Troubles: The Provisional Irish Republican Army detonated twenty-two bombs throughout Belfast, Northern Ireland.
• 1977 – Libyan forces carried out a raid at Sallum, sparking a four-day war with Egypt.
• 2013 – Nour Ahmad Nikbakht, an Iranian diplomat in Yemen, was kidnapped by al-Qaeda militants and held hostage for the next two years.
• 2019 – People returning from anti-extradition bill protests were attacked (pictured) by suspected triad members in Yuen Long, Hong Kong, leaving 45 people injured.
• Born/died: | Geoffrey I, Count of Anjou|d|987| Henry Percy|d|1403| Charles Tristan, marquis de Montholon|b|1783|Simion Bărnuțiu|b|1808| Paul Reuter|b|1816| Sophie Aberle|b|1896| Hart Crane|b|1899| Russell Lee|b|1903| Philomena Franz|b|1922| George Brian Sinclair |b|1928| Les Aspin|b|1938| John Negroponte|b|1939| Louis Vauxcelles|d|1943| Claus von Stauffenberg|d|1944| John Atta Mills|b|1944| Hirini Melbourne|b|1949| Jimmie Foxx|d|1967| Ruth St. Denis|d|1968| Charlotte Gainsbourg |b|1971| Andriy Voronin|b|1979| Anthony Annan|b|1986| Lindsey Halligan|b|1989| Rilwanu Lukman |d|2014| Lettice Curtis |d|2014|

Notes

• Apollo 11 featured on July 20, so Armstrong/Aldrin should not be used in the same year
• Hyde Park and Regent's Park bombings featured on July 20, is on the same topic as Bloody Friday (1972)
• Wild Bill Hickok appears on August 2, so Hickok–Tutt shootout should not be used in the same year

July 21: Belgian National Day (1831), Marine Day in Japan (2025) Template:Main page image/OTD

• 905 – [[Louis the Blind|Template:Nowrap]], Holy Roman Emperor, was captured and blinded during his attempt to restore Carolingian power over Italy by King [[Berengar I of Italy|Template:Nowrap]].
• 1877 – Much of central Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, was burned and looted during the Great Railroad Strike of 1877.
• 1960 – Sirimavo Bandaranaike (pictured) was sworn in as prime minister of Ceylon, becoming the world's first democratically elected female head of government.
• 1990 – The Taiwanese military ordered the deportation of dozens of illegal immigrants from mainland China in sealed boat holds, causing 25 deaths due to suffocation.
• 2007 – Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, the final book in the popular Harry Potter series by [[J. K. Rowling|Template:Nowrap Rowling]], was released and sold Template:Nowrap copies in its first Template:Nowrap, making it the fastest-selling book in history.