Events in History

1881 Sioux Indian Chief Sitting Bull surrenders to US federal troops

1921 Congresswoman Alice Mary Robertson becomes the first woman to preside over the floor of US House of Representatives

1969 Apollo 11 lunar module carrying Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin lands on the surface of the Moon. Seven hours later Armstrong becomes the first person to step on the moon at 10:56 p.m. EDT, Aldrin joins him shortly after. Michael Collins remains in orbit in the command module. [1]

1976 US Viking 1 lands on Mars at Chryse Planitia, 1st Martian landing

2017 China announces a plan against “foreign garbage”, banning the import of 24 categories of plastic and recyclable waste from 2018

Events in Flim and TV

1935 1st broadcast of “Gang Busters” on NBC-radio

1950 “Arthur Murray Party” premieres on ABC TV (later DuMont, CBS, NBC)

1977 10th San Diego Comic-Con International opens at El Cortez Hotel

1981 Irene Sáez, of Venezuela, crowned 30th Miss Universe

Events in Sports

1858 Fee 1st charged to see a baseball game (50 cents) (NY beats Bkln 22-18)

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Moon Phase

The current moon phase for July 21st, 2024 is the Full Moon phase.

On this day, the moon is 14.89 days old and 99.56% illuminated with a tilt of 83.177°. The approximate distance from Earth to the moon is 372,232.14 km and the moon sign is Capricorn.

The Moon phase for July 21st, 2024 is the Full Moon phase. In this phase, the moon is 100% illuminated when seen from Earth (hence the name Full Moon).

The Full Moon happens when the moon is on the opposite side of the Earth from the Sun. The sunlight fully illuminated the moon, and this is what we call being “full”. The moon will be visible throughout the night sky as it rises at sunset in the east, transits the meridian at midnight, before setting at sunrise in the west.

The specific point at which the Full Moon occurs can be measured down to a fraction of a second. The time that passes between full moons is called the Synodic month and is 29.530587981 days long.

Fun fact: lunar eclipses can only happen within a few days of the Full Moon, but they don’t happen for every Full Moon because the moon’s orbit has a 5.1° tilt around the Earth compared to Earth’s orbit around the Sun. Only when the intersection of these two orbits is pointing towards the centre of the Moon do we get a lunar eclipse.

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Events in History

1595 Astronomer Johannes Kepler has an epiphany and develops his theory of the geometrical basis of the universe while teaching in Graz, Austria

1843 Steamship SS Great Britain is launched, designed by Isambard Kingdom Brunel, it is the first ocean-going craft with an iron hull or screw propeller and the largest vessel afloat in the world

1848 First US women’s rights convention held in Seneca Falls, NY, organized by Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott

1941 British PM Winston Churchill launches his “V for Victory” campaign

Events in Flim and TV

1937 Joris Ivens’ “Spanish Earth” premieres in Hollywood

1940 Nazi occupiers in Netherlands forbid anti-nazi films

1953 KIMA TV channel 29 in Yakima, WA (CBS) begins broadcasting

1953 WAKR (now WAKC) TV channel 23 in Akron, OH (ABC) begins broadcasting

1961 1st in-flight movie shown on TWA

1965 Shooting begins on Star Trek 2nd pilot “Where No Man Has Gone Before”

1979 Maritza Sayalero, 18, of Venezuela, crowned 28th Miss Universe

2001 34th San Diego Comic-Con International opens at San Diego Convention Center

2017 BBC publishes salaries of its top-earning journalists and presenters, two-thirds male, Chris Evans highest at over £2.2 million

Events in Music

1913 Billboard publishes their earliest known chart “Last Week’s 10 Best Sellers Among Popular Songs”. #1 is “Malinda’s Wedding Day” by singers Byron Harlan and Arthur Collins (recorded in Camden, New Jersey)

1951 “2 in the Aisle” opens at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC for 276 performances

1952 “Paint Your Wagon” closes at Shubert Theater NYC after 289 performances

1955 1st performance of Gerald Finzi’s Cello Concerto, his last major work; John Barbirolli leading the Hallé Orchestra, with soloist Christopher Bunting at Cheltenham Music Festival in Gloucestershire, England

1976 British rock group Deep Purple disbands

1992 “Price” closes at Criterion Theater NYC after 47 performances

1992 NYC ballet dancer Peter Martins is arrested for beating his wife

Events in Sports

1877 1st Wimbledon Men’s Tennis: 27-year-old English rackets player Spencer Gore wins inaugural event; beats William Marshall 6-1, 6-2, 6-4

1884 Wimbledon Women’s Tennis: Maud Watson becomes inaugural female champion by beating her sister Lillian Watson 6–8, 6–3, 6–3

1900 Luxembourg born Michel Théato representing France wins Paris Olympics marathon in 2:59:45 ahead of another French athlete Émile Champion

1903 1st Tour de France: French rider Maurice Garin wins inaugural event

1908 Dutch football club Feyenoord is established in Rotterdam as Wilhelmina; reverts to SC Feijenoord 1912; updated to SC Feyenoord 1974 and to Feyenoord Rotterdam 1978

1909 Cleveland shortstop Neal Ball completes the first modern MLB unassisted triple play in the Indians’ 6-1 win over the Boston Red Sox

1914 Boston Braves begin drive from last to the NL pennant with a 3-2 win against the 2nd placed Cincinnati Reds

1918 Washington Senators catcher Eddie Ainsmith applies for draft deferment; Secretary of War, Newton D Baker rules baseball players not draft exempt but later moves date to 1 September; both leagues end regular season 2 September

1925 19th Tour de France won by Ottavio Bottecchia of Italy

1930 LPGA Western Open Women’s Golf, Acacia CC: Lucia Mida beats June Beebe 6 & 5 to win the inaugural event and first women’s major championship ever played

1942 German occupiers confiscate bicycles in Rotterdam and The Hague

1952 XV Summer Olympic Games open in Helsinki, Finland

1958 45th Tour de France won by Charly Gaul of Luxembourg

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Events in History

64 Great Fire of Rome begins under the Emperor Nero

1334 Bishop of Florence blesses the first foundation stone for the new campanile (bell tower) of the Florence Cathedral, designed by artist Giotto di Bondone

1925 Adolf Hitler publishes Mein Kampf, original title was the catchy “Four and a Half Years (of Struggle) Against Lies, Stupidity and Cowardice”

1936 Spanish Civil War: General Francisco Franco issues manifesto and leads an uprising in the Spanish army stationed in Morocco

2012 Kim Jong-un is officially appointed Supreme Leader of North Korea and given the rank of Marshal in the Korean People’s Army

2013 Detroit, Michigan, files for bankruptcy, becoming the largest US municipal bankruptcy ever at $18.5 billion

2023 Wildfire season in British Columbia becomes the most destructive on record, burning 14,100 square kilometers of land, with 390 fires still alight (surpassing 2018 record) [1]

Events in Flim and TV

1952 KWGN TV channel 2 in Denver, Colorado (IND) begins broadcasting

1959 “The Nun’s Story” based on the novel by Kathryn Hulme, starring Audrey Hepburn premieres in Los Angeles

1970 WJCL TV channel 22 in Savannah, GA (ABC) begins broadcasting

1988 Shooting begins on Bond film “License to Kill”

1992 Sharon Belden, of Florida, 25, crowned Miss World USA

2013 46th San Diego Comic-Con International opens at San Diego Convention Center

2018 Cliff Richard wins privacy case against the BBC, for reporting he was being investigated over historic child sexual assaults

2020 Indian actor Amitabh Bachchan and his son Abhishek are hospitalized with COVID-19 in Mumbai

Events in Music

1942 1st performances of “Chôros No. 6” and “Chôros No. 11” by Heitor Villa-Lobos, with the composer conducting Orquestra Sinfônica do Theatro Municipal, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

1948 Emmerich Kálmán’s dramatic operetta “Marinka” opens at Winter Garden Theater (later transferring to the Ethel Barrymore Theatre), NYC; runs for 168 performances

1953 Elvis Presley pays $3.98 to make his first demo, at Sun Studio in Memphis, records “My Happiness” and “That’s When Your Heartaches Begin”. Reportedly gives the record to his mother as a belated birthday present.

1970 Revival of Sandy Wilson’s musical “The Boy Friend”, starring Judy Carne and Sandy Duncan, closes at Ambassador Theater, NYC, after 111 performances

1976 “Something’s Afoot” closes at Lyceum Theater NYC after 61 performances

1980 Billy Joel‘s “Glass Houses” album tops US charts, featuring “It’s Still Rock ‘n’ Roll to Me”

1982 “Blues in the Night” closes at Rialto Theater NYC after 53 performances

1994 “Kiss From a Rose” released by Seal (Grammy Record of the Year and Song of the Year)

Events in Sports

1878 Wimbledon Men’s Tennis: Frank Hadow makes his lone Wimbledon appearance, and wins; beats defending champion Spencer Gore 7-5, 6-1, 9-7

1893 Australian Harry Graham scores 107 on cricket debut Australia v England, Lord’s

1893 Wimbledon Women’s Tennis: Lottie Dod beats Blanche Bingley-Hillyard 6-8, 6-1, 6-4 for her 3rd consecutive and 5th overall Wimbledon singles title

1896 George Giffen is 1st to complete 1000/100 double, in 30th Test Cricket

1896 Indian born K S Ranjitsinhji completes an unbeaten 154 on Test cricket debut for England in 2nd Test against Australia at Old Trafford

1896 US Open Men’s Golf, Shinnecock Hills: American-based Scot James Foulis wins by 3 strokes ahead of Englishman Horace Rawlins

1912 Chicago Cubs get 21 hits but lose to Philadelphia Phillies in 11 innings

1913 After 68 straight innings Christy Mathewson gives up a walk

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Events in History

622 Muslim Era begins – Muhammad begins flight from Mecca to Medina (Hijra)

1054 The Great Schism between Western and Eastern churches begins when Roman Cardinal Humbert issues a bull of excommunication against Cerularius, Patriarch of Constantinople, on the altar of the Hagia Sophia in Constantinople

1519 Public debate between Martin Luther and theologian Johann Eck at Pleissenburg Castle in Liepzig, during which Luther denies the divine right of the Pope

1809 La Paz, Bolivia declares its independence from the Spanish Crown and forms the Junta Tuitiva led by Pedro Domingo Murillo, the first independent government in Spanish America

1940 Adolf Hitler orders preparations for the invasion of Britain (Operation Sealion)

Events in Flim and TV

1938 John Murray and Allen Boretz’s stage comedy “Room Service”, starring Sam Levene, Eddie Albert, and Phillip Loeb, closes at the Cort Theatre, NYC, after 500 performances

1953 KROC (now KTTC) TV channel 10 in Rochester, Minnesota (NBC) 1st broadcast

1977 Janelle Commissiong, of Trinidad & Tobago crowned 26th Miss Universe

1988 Landmark Japanese animated cyberpunk manga film “Akira” released, directed by Katsuhiro Otomo [1]

1990 Bridgette LeAnn Wilson, 17, of Oregon, 8th crowned Miss Teen USA

1990 Rick Dee’s “Into the Night” premieres on ABC-TV

1994 Wendy Wasserstein‘s stage play “The Sisters Rosensweig”, starring Madeline Kahn, closes at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre, NYC, after 556 performances

2001 “Jurassic Park III”, starring Sam Neill and William H. Macy, premieres in the US

Events in Music

1782 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart‘s opera “Die Entführung aus dem Serail (The Abduction from the Seraglio)” premieres in Vienna with Mozart conducting

1966 David Heneker’s musical “Half a Sixpence”, starring Tommy Steels, and based on H.G. Well’s 1905 novel “Kipps”, closes at Broadhurst Theater, NYC, after 511 performances

1967 American pop-rock group “The Monkees” perform at Forest Hills Tennis Stadium in Queens, New York, with psychedelic rock Jimi Hendrix Experience as opening act;

1967 British rock band “The Who” begin 1st full US tour, appearing at the Fillmore Auditorium in San Francisco, California, and then going coast-to-coast opening for Herman’s Hermits

1967 Canadian singer-songwriter Joni Mitchell makes her Newport Folk Festival debut at a songwriters’ workshop performance in Newport, Rhode Island

1972 Smokey Robinson and the Miracles final live performance, in Washington D.C.

1994 “The Three Tenors” Plácido Domingo, José Carreras and Luciano Pavarotti, perform with Los Angeles Philharmonic and chorus of the Los Angeles Opera, conducted by Zubin Mehta at Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles, California; an estimated 1.3 billion viewers wathc worldwide broadcast

1995 Bob Telson, Graciela Daniele and Jim Lewis’s musical “Chronicles of a Death Foretold”, based on Gabriel García Márquez’s 1981 novella, closes at Plymouth Theater, NYC, after 55 performances

Events in Sports

1883 Wimbledon Men’s Tennis: William Renshaw wins third straight Wimbledon title; beats twin brother Ernest Renshaw 2-6, 6-3, 6-3, 4-6, 6-3

1888 Wimbledon Men’s Tennis: 3-time runner-up Ernest Renshaw wins his lone major title; beats defending champion Herbert Lawford 6-3, 7-5, 6-0

1895 Lancashire batsman Archie MacLaren scores the first-ever quadruple-hundred (424) in first-class cricket against Somerset at Taunton

1896 Indian born K S Ranjitsinhji debuts for England v Australia in 2nd Test at Old Trafford; first Indian to play Test cricket

1902 John McGraw officially becomes manager of MLB New York Giants; 30 year tenure begins (1902-32)

1909 MLB Detroit Tigers and Washington Senators play longest scoreless game in AL history – 18 innings at Bennett Field in Detroit, Michigan [1]

1920 15th Davis Cup: USA beats Australasia in Auckland (5-0)

1924 NY Giants George Kelly is 1st to hit HRs in 6 cons games

Events in History

1184 BC Trojan War: Troy is sacked and burned, according to calculations by Eratosthenes

631 Emperor Taizong of Tang of China, sends envoys to the Xueyantuo bearing gold and silk for the release of Chinese prisoners captured during transition from Sui to Tang from northern frontier; succeeds in freeing 80,000

1776 Continental Congress creates committee to draft a Declaration of Independence with Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Roger Sherman, and Robert R. Livingston as members

1963 US President JFK says segregation is morally wrong and that it is “time to act”

1987 Margaret Thatcher is the first British Prime Minister in 160 years to win a third consecutive term

2009 The World Health Organization declares H1N1 swine flu to be a global pandemic, the first such incident in over forty years

2014 Islamic State of Iraq forces seize control of government offices and other important buildings in the northern city of Mosul

Events in Flim and TV

1892 The Limelight Department, one of the world’s first film studios, is officially established in Melbourne, Australia

1953 “Amos ‘n Andy” TV Comedy, also radio from ’29; last aired on CBS

1961 “Winston Churchill” last airs on ABC-TV

1976 “Magnificent Marble Machine” last airs on NBC-TV

1977 Main Street Electrical Parade premieres in the Magic Kingdom at Walt Disney World

1984 Michael Larson shown winning record $110,237 on American TV game show “Press Your Luck” by memorizing patterns

1986 “Blacke’s Magic” last airs on NBC-TV

1993 “Jurassic Park”, directed by Steven Spielberg, starring Sam Neill and Jeff Goldblum opens, sets box office weekend record of $502 million

1993 “Scattergories” game show last airs on NBC-TV

1993 “Scrabble,” second run,” TV Game Show; last airs on NBC-TV

1994 “Meet The Flintstones” by The B-52’s (stylized for this release as The B.C. 52’s) from the 1994 film The Flintstones peaks at #33

Events in Music

1964 Chicago police break up Rolling Stones press conference on a traffic island in the middle of Michigan Avenue

1966 “(I’m A) Road Runner” by Jr Walker & The All-Stars peaks at #20

1966 “I Am A Rock” by Simon & Garfunkel peaks at #3

1966 “On A Clear Day You…” closes at Mark Hellinger NYC after 280 performances

1966 “Skyscraper” closes at Lunt Fontanne Theater NYC after 248 performances

1966 “Sloop John B” by The Beach Boys hits #1 in UK

1983 “Always Something There To Remind Me” by Naked Eyes peaks at #8

1983 “Cool Places” by Sparks & Jane Wiedlin peaks at #49

Events in Sports

1898 23rd Preakness: Willie Simms riding Sly Fox wins in 1:49.75

1904 Chicago Cubs pitcher Bob Wicker no-hits NY Giants, wins in 12th on 1 hitter, 1-0

1907 George Dennett, aided by Gilbert Jessop, dismisses Northamptonshire for 12 runs, the lowest total in first-class cricket

1919 51st Belmont: Johnny Loftus riding Sir Barton wins by 5 lengths over Sweep On; first Trip Crown winner

1927 59th Belmont: Earl Sande riding Chance Shot wins in 2:32.6

1938 Cincinnati Red Johnny Vander Meer no-hits Boston Braves, 3-0

1938 Compton scores 1st Test Cricket ton (102 v Aust) aged 20 yrs 19 days

1938 England cricket team declare at 8 for 658 v Australia at Trent Bridge

1938 French Championships Men’s Tennis: American Don Budge beats Roderich Menzel of Czechoslovakia 6-3, 6-2, 6-4 for the 2nd leg of his Grand Slam

1938 French Championships Women’s Tennis: In an all-French final Simonne Mathieu wins first of consecutive titles; beats Nelly Adamson 6-0, 6-3

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