FREE Ezine from ArcaMax, Inc.Today is Wednesday, July 21, the 202nd day of 2010
with 163 to follow.
The moon is waxing. The morning stars are Neptune, Jupiter, Saturn and
Uranus. The evening stars are Mercury, Venus and Mars.
This Day in History, July 21
On July 21st, 1969, Neil Armstrong became the first person ever to walk
on the moon.
Other Notable Events, July 21
In 1861, the first major military engagement of the Civil War occurred at
Bull Run Creek, Va.
In 1873, Jesse James held up the Rock Island express train at Adair,
Iowa, and escaped with $3,000.
In 1925, the so-called Monkey Trial in Dayton, Tenn., which pitted
Clarence Darrow against William Jennings Bryan in one of the great
confrontations in legal history, ended with John Thomas Scopes fined $100 for
teaching evolution in violation of state law.
In 1969, astronauts Neil Armstrong and Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin lifted off
from the surface of the moon.
In 1970, after 11 years of construction, the massive billion-dollar Aswan
High Dam across the Nile River in Egypt was completed, ending the cycle of
flood and drought in the Nile River region but triggering an environmental
controversy.
In 1991, Jordan joined Syria, Lebanon, Egypt and Saudi Arabia in agreeing
to regional peace talks.
In 1992, a judge in Pontiac, Mich., dismissed murder charges against
euthanasia advocate Jack "Dr. Death" Kevorkian.
In 2000, a report from special counsel John Danforth cleared U.S.
Attorney General Janet Reno and the government of wrongdoing in the April 19,
1993, fire that ended the Branch Davidian siege near Waco, Texas.
In 2003, physicians at Vienna General Hospital in Austria say they
performed the world's first successful tongue transplant on a human, a
42-year-old man.
Also in 2003, Canadian authorities expanded their search for the remains
of 63 Vancouver women missing for 20 years. Pig farmer Robert Pickton was
charged with killing 26 women, most of whom were drug-addicted prostitutes.
In 2004, the Sept. 11 commission said it had found that the Clinton and
Bush administrations had missed as many as 10 opportunities to thwart terror
attacks.
In 2005, a second suicide bombing attack on London within two weeks
misfired when the bombs, again in three subway cars and a bus, failed to
detonate.
In 2007, Italian police said they had uncovered a bomb school for
Islamist militants and arrested three suspects in a raid on a mosque in
Perugia. Found, along with evidence of training in explosives and poisons, were
instructions for flying a Boeing 747.
Also in 2007, "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows," the seventh and
final installment in the best-selling series, sold more than 8.3 million copies
on its first day on the bookshelves.
In 2008, former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic, a central figure in
the Bosnian civil war of the 1990s, was arrested after a 13-year manhunt and
charged with genocide and crimes against humanity.
Also in 2008, Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe, winner of a
controversial runoff for re-election which included alleged deadly voter
intimidation and vote rigging, agreed to join opposition leader Morgan
Tsvangirai in talks to form a unified government.
In 2009, U.S. President Barack Obama continued his campaign for
healthcare reform legislation, extolling virtues, reaching out to Americans on
prime-time TV, lashing at critics and warning lawmakers that If nothing happens
now, nothing will change.
Also in 2009, the U.S. Senate voted to strip $1.75 billion for new F-22
fighter jets from a military spending bill, a political victory for U.S.
President Barack Obama, who called the item wasteful spending and threatened a
veto.
Copyright 2010 by United Press International
Notable Birthdays for July 21
Those born on this date include:
- Composer Chauncey Olcott ( When Irish Eyes Are Smiling ) in 1860
- Author Ernest Hemingway and poet Hart Crane, both in 1899
- Professional golfer Harold Jug McSpaden in 1908
- Canadian communications theorist Marshall McLuhan in 1911
- Violinist Isaac Stern in 1920
- Singer Kay Starr in 1922 (age 88)
- Producer Norman Jewison in 1926 (age 84)
- Actor/comedian Don Knotts in 1924
- Actor/comedian Robin Williams in 1952 (age 58)
- Former U.S. Attorney General Janet Reno in 1938 (age 72)
- Actor Edward Herrmann in 1943 (age 67)
- Singer Yusuf Islam, formerly known as Cat Stevens in 1948 (age 62)
- Cartoonist Garry Trudeau ( Doonesbury ) in 1948 (age 62)
- Actor Jon Lovitz in 1957 (age 53)
Copyright 2010 by United Press International
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