What happend on 21st July

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22.07
1972

Bloody Friday bombing by the Provisional Irish Republican Army, (IRA) around Belfast, Northern Ireland, 22 bomb explosions, 9 people were killed,130 seriously injured.

1970

After 11 years of construction, the Aswan High Dam in Egypt is completed.

1963

Giovanni Battista Enrico Antonio Maria Montini is elected Pope Paul VI by the College of Cardinals.

1961

Mercury program: Gus Grissom piloting the Mercury 4 capsule "Liberty Bell 7" becomes the second American to go into space (in a suborbital mission).

1954

First Indochina War: The Geneva Conference partitions Vietnam into North Vietnam and South Vietnam.

1944

World War II: Battle of Guam

1931

CBS's New York City station begins broadcasting the first regular seven days a week television schedule in the U. S.

1925

Scopes Trial: In Dayton, Tennessee, high school biology teacher John T. Scopes is found guilty of teaching evolution in class and fined $100.

1877

After rioting by Baltimore and Ohio Railroad workers and the deaths of 9 rail workers at the hands of the Maryland militia, workers in Pittsburgh stage a sympathy strike that is met with an assault by the state militia.

1873

At Adair, Iowa, Jesse James and the James-Younger gang pull off the first successful train robbery in the American West.