July 21st is

No Makeup Day

National Junk Food Day

ASPCA No Pet Store Puppies Day

USATWA Tug-of-War Tournament Day

WORLD FESTIVALS AND NATIONAL HOLIDAYS

Belgium – National Day

Canada – Vancouver Bard on the Beach

Guam – Liberation Day

Iraq – Government Holiday (Excessive Heat)

UK – Cambridgeshire Secret Garden Party (1st day)

On This Day in HISTORY

356 BC – Ephesus Temple of Artemis, ancient world Seven Wonder, destroyed by arson

365 – Alexandria, Egypt, devastated by tsunami from 8.5 earthquake on Crete

1645 – Qing regent Dorgon orders Han men to braid their hair into queue like Manchus

There’s MORE! Hemingway, Robin Williams & Janet Reno, just click

1899 – Ernest Hemingway,  author and adventurer, is born

1920 – Isaac Stern, superb violinist, is born – brief tribute posting today at 9:30 AM CDT

1925 – John Scopes convicted of violating Tennessee law banning teaching Darwin’s
theory of evolution. But the judge sets his fine instead of the jury, so case is overturned

1930 – The U.S. Veteran’s Administration is established

1938 – Janet Reno, first woman to serve as U.S. Attorney General, is born

1949 – The U.S. ratifies the North Atlantic Treaty

1951 – Robin Williams, gifted actor and comedian, is born

1957 – Althea Gibson becomes first black woman to win a major U.S. tennis title

1970 – Aswan Dam on the Nile in Egypt completed after 11 years of construction

1973 – Jim Croce hits #1 on the U.S. singles charts with “Bad, Bad Leroy Brown”

1987 – Guns ’n Roses releases their first album “Appetite for Destruction”

2007 – J.K. Rowling’s book “Harry Potter and the Deadly Hallows” is released

2011 – Space Shuttle Atlantis completes last flight of NASA’s space shuttle program

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2012 – Erden Eruç completes first solo human-powered circumnavigation of Earth