On This Day for July 21 - Egyptians defeated in the Battle of the Pyramids, Ernest Hemingway is featured, and more

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July 21

FEATURED BIOGRAPHY

Ernest Hemingway

Jacques-Louis David: Napoleon in His Study

FEATURED EVENT

1798

Egyptians defeated in the Battle of the Pyramids

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MORE EVENTS ON THIS DAY

2011: The U.S. space shuttle program ended, after 135 missions, as the orbiter Atlantis landed at NASA's John F. Kennedy Space Center at Cape Canaveral, Florida. [Sort fact from fiction in our quiz about space exploration.]

2007: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, the final book in J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter series, was released. [Take our quiz about children's authors.]

1987: American heavy metal band Guns N' Roses released the landmark album Appetite for Destruction, which sold more than 17 million copies. [Test your knowledge of musical forms and styles .]

1861: The First Battle of Bull Run (called First Manassas by the South) was fought during the American Civil War. [How much do you know about the American Civil War?]

1983: The world's lowest recorded temperature, −128.6 °F (−89.2 °C), was measured at Vostok Station, Antarctica. [ Sort fact from fiction in our quiz about Antarctica.]

1967: Albert John Luthuli, president of the African National Congress (1952–60) and the first African to be awarded a Nobel Prize for Peace (1960), died after being struck by a train. [ Take our quiz about the Nobel Prize.]

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ALSO BORN ON THIS DAY

1899

Ernest Hemingway
American writer

1951

Robin Williams
American comedian and actor

1943

Edward Kirk Herrmann
American actor

1911

Marshall McLuhan
Canadian educator

1938

Janet Reno
United States attorney general