What happend on 21st July

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22.07
2005

Four terrorist bombings, occurring exactly two weeks after the similar July 7 bombings, target London's public transportation system. All four bombs fail to detonate and all four suspected suicide bombers escape.

2005

Clarence Richard Silva ordained to the episcopate as bishop of Honolulu.

2004

The United Kingdom government publishes Delivering Security in a Changing World, a paper detailing wide-ranging reform of the country's armed forces.

2003

The last Volkswagen old-style Beetle rolls off the assembly line at Puebla, Mexico.

2002

Telecom giant WorldCom files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in the largest such filing in United States history.

1997

The fully restored USS Constitution (aka "Old Ironsides") celebrates her 200th birthday by setting sail for the first time in 116 years.

1995

Third Taiwan Strait Crisis: The People's Liberation Army begins firing missiles into the waters north of Taiwan.

1994

Tony Blair is declared the winner of the leadership election of the British Labour Party, paving the way to him becoming Prime Minister in 1997.

1984

In Jackson, Michigan, a factory robot crushes a worker against a safety bar in apparently the first robot-related death in the United States.

1976

Christopher Ewart-Biggs British ambassador to the Republic of Ireland is assassinated by the Provisional IRA