July 21 1242 Battle of Taillebourg: Louis IX of France puts an end to the revolt of his vassals Henry III of England and Hugh X of Lusignan.
July 21 1403 Battle of Shrewsbury: King Henry IV of England defeats rebels to the north of the county town of Shropshire, England.
July 21 1545 The first landing of French troops on the coast of the Isle of Wight during the French invasion of the Isle of Wight.
July 21 1568 Eighty Years' War: Battle of Jemmingen: Fernando Álvarez de Toledo, Duke of Alva defeats Louis of Nassau.
July 21 1656 The Raid on Málaga takes place during the Anglo-Spanish War.
July 21 1774 Russo-Turkish War (1768–74): Russia and the Ottoman Empire sign the Treaty of Küçük Kaynarca ending the war.
July 21 1798 French campaign in Egypt and Syria: Napoleon's forces defeat an Ottoman-Mamluk army near Cairo in the Battle of the Pyramids.
July 21 1861 American Civil War: First Battle of Bull Run: At Manassas Junction, Virginia, the first major battle of the war begins and ends in a victory for the Confederate army.
July 21 1944 World War II: Battle of Guam: American troops land on Guam, starting a battle that will end on August 10.
July 21 1944 World War II: Claus von Stauffenberg and fellow conspirators are tortured and executed in Berlin, Germany, for the July 20 plot to assassinate Adolf Hitler.
July 21 1954 First Indochina War: The Geneva Conference partitions Vietnam into North Vietnam and South Vietnam.
July 21 1977 The start of the four-day-long Libyan–Egyptian War.
July 21 1979 Jay Silverheels, a Mohawk actor, becomes the first Native American to have a star commemorated in the Hollywood Walk of Fame.[3]
July 21 1990 Taiwan's military police forces mainland Chinese illegal immigrants into sealed holds of a fishing boat Min Ping Yu No. 5540 for repatriation to Fujian, causing 25 people to die from suffocation.[4]
July 21 1995 Third Taiwan Strait Crisis: The People's Liberation Army begins firing missiles into the waters north of Taiwan.
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