On This Day:
Monday July 21, 2014 This is the 202nd day of the year, with 163 days remaining in 2014. Fact of the Day: Beethoven After going deaf around 1796, Beethoven continued to compose until his death in 1827 -- where 10,000 people attended his funeral.
Holidays Feast day of St. Laurence of Brindisi, St. Victor of Marseilles, St. Arbogastes, and St. Praxedes.
Belgium: National Day.
Guam: Liberation Day.
Events 1733 - John Winthrop was granted the first honorary Doctor of Law degree in the U.S., by Harvard College.
1798 - The Battle of the Pyramids took place, in which Napoleon, soon after his invasion of Egypt, defeated an army of some 60,000 Mamelukes.
1831 - Belgium became independent as Leopold I was proclaimed king.
1861 - The first Battle of Bull Run was fought at Manassas, Virginia -- a Confederate victory.
1925 - John T. Scopes was convicted of violating state law for teaching Darwin's Theory of Evolution (later overturned).
1930 - The U.S. Veterans Administration was established.
1944 - Guam, in the western Pacific Ocean, which had been under Japanese occupation since Dec 1941, was retaken by U.S. Marines.
1949 - The U.S. Senate ratified the North Atlantic Treaty.
1954 - France surrendered North Vietnam to the Communists.
1961 - Captain Virgil "Gus" Grissom became the second American to go into space on the final suborbital Mercury test flight aboard the Liberty Bell 7.
1970 - The Aswan High Dam across the Nile River in Egypt is completed.
2002 - Telecommunications giant WorldCom, Inc. filed for bankruptcy protection, shortly after disclosing it had inflated profits by nearly $4 billion through deceptive accounting.
2004 - The September 11 panel was harshly critical of the U.S. government in its voluminous report released after a 19-month investigation. The report called for sweeping changes in American intelligence agencies.
Births 1816 - Paul Julius von Reuter, German news agency founder.
1899 - Ernest Hemingway, American Pulitzer Prize and Nobel Prize-winning author.
1899 - Hart Crane, American poet.
1911 - Marshall McLuhan, Canadian-born university professor and author.
1920 - Isaac Stern, American concert violin impresario.
Deaths 1796 - Robert Burns, Scottish poet.
1967 - Basil Rathbone, British character actor.
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