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Events

• 1944 (82 years ago) World War II: Battle of Guam: American troops land on Guam, starting a battle that will end on August 10.
• 1951 (75 years ago) Canadian Pacific Air Lines Flight 3505 disappears while flying from Vancouver to Tokyo. The aircraft and its 37 occupants are never found.
• 1954 (72 years ago) First Indochina War: The Geneva Conference partitions Vietnam into North Vietnam and South Vietnam.
• 1970 (56 years ago) After 11 years of construction, the Aswan High Dam in Egypt is completed.
• 1976 (50 years ago) Christopher Ewart-Biggs, the British ambassador to the Republic of Ireland, is assassinated by the Provisional IRA.
• 1995 (31 years ago) Third Taiwan Strait Crisis: The People's Liberation Army begins firing missiles into the waters north of Taiwan.
• 2005 (21 years ago) Four attempted bomb attacks by Islamist extremists disrupt part of London's public transport system.
• 2010 (16 years ago) U.S. President Barack Obama signs the Dodd–Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act.

Births

• 1414 (612 years ago) Pope Sixtus IV,
• 1899 (127 years ago) Ernest Hemingway, American novelist, short story writer, and journalist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1961)
• 1911 (115 years ago) Marshall McLuhan, Canadian author and theorist (died 1980)
• 1944 (82 years ago) John Atta Mills, Ghanaian lawyer and politician, 3rd President of Ghana (died 2012)
• 1948 (78 years ago) Cat Stevens, English singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1951 (75 years ago) Robin Williams, American actor and comedian (died 2014)
• 1957 (69 years ago) Stefan Löfven, Swedish trade union leader and politician, 33rd Prime Minister of Sweden
• 2000 (26 years ago) Erling Haaland, Norwegian footballer

Deaths

• 1425 (601 years ago) Manuel II Palaiologos, Byzantine emperor (born 1350)
• 1796 (230 years ago) Robert Burns, Scottish poet and songwriter (born 1759)
• 1899 (127 years ago) Robert G. Ingersoll, American soldier, lawyer, and politician (born 1833)
• 1944 (82 years ago) Claus von Stauffenberg, German soldier who attempted to assassinate Adolf Hitler (born 1907)
• 1967 (59 years ago) Albert Lutuli, South African academic and politician, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1898)
• 1998 (28 years ago) Alan Shepard, American admiral, pilot, and astronaut (born 1923)
• 2004 (22 years ago) Jerry Goldsmith, American composer and conductor (born 1929)
• 2023 (3 years ago) Tony Bennett, American singer (born 1926)

All 396 events, births and deaths of July 21