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This Day in History, July 21, 2023


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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