This Day in History, July 21, 2023
Release time:
2023-07-21
The first Olympic Games in the world were held in ancient Greece on July 21, 776 BC
The Temple of Artemis was destroyed by arson on July 21, 356 BC
Emperor Wen of Sui, Yang Jian, was born on July 21, 541 AD
Li Longji staged a coup and executed Empress Wei on July 21, 710 AD
The Battle of Falkirk, part of the Wars of Scottish Independence, broke out on July 21, 1298
England defeated the Spanish Armada on July 21, 1588
An 8.0 magnitude earthquake struck Tianshui, Gansu on July 21, 1654
The Tianjin Student Union Gazette was founded on July 21, 1919
The National Anti-Japanese Conference was held in Shanghai on July 21, 1928
The US military landed on Guam on July 21, 1944
Guan Xiangying passed away on July 21, 1946
The Central Committee forwarded the Beijing Municipal Committee's report on rectification work on July 21, 1950
The Geneva Accords on Indochina were signed on July 21, 1954
A British person set a new record for a solo transatlantic crossing on July 21, 1960
Apollo 11 landed on the moon on July 21, 1969
Divers found millions of dollars worth of treasure on July 21, 1985
Zhang Yuzhe, a major founder of modern astronomy in China, passed away on July 21, 1986
The China Council for the Promotion of International Trade of Mechanical & Electrical Products was established on July 21, 1988
China and Saudi Arabia established diplomatic relations on July 21, 1990
The Beijing Electron Positron Collider was officially accepted on July 21, 1990
The first cross-sea railway in northern China opened on July 21, 1995
The Fifth Taiwan Strait Crisis occurred on July 21, 1995
Sang Lan was accidentally injured at the Goodwill Games in New York on July 21, 1998
Wuhan was hit by a rare century-old rainstorm on July 21, 1998
China and Nauru established diplomatic relations on July 21, 2002
The detailed rules for the management and assistance of urban homeless beggars were implemented on July 21, 2003
Wang Daheng, the father of Chinese optics, passed away on July 21, 2011
A severe rainstorm hit Beijing on July 21, 2012
Xu Shizhe, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, passed away on July 21, 2012
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