This Day in History – July 21, 2011

1588 English fleet defeats Spanish armada 1846 Mormons found 1st English settlement in Calif (San Joaquin Valley) 1861 1st major battle of Civil War ends (Bull Run), Va-South wins 1873 Jesse James, 1st train robbery 1930 US Veterans Administration established 1944 US forces free Guam of Japanese invaders 1949 Senate ratifies North Atlantic Treaty by a vote of 82-13 1954 At Geneva, France agrees to independence of North & South Vietnam 1955 1st sub powered by liquid metal cooled reactor launched-Seawolf 1957 1st black to win a major US tennis tournament (Althea Gibson) 1959 1st atomic powered merchant ship, Savannah, christened, Camden NJ 1961 Launch of Mercury 4 (Liberty Bell) with Grissom 1962 160 civil right activists jailed after demonstration in Albany Ga 1969 Neil Armstrong steps on the Moon at 2:56:15 AM (GMT) 1972 In New York, 57 murders occur in 24 hours 1973 Hank Aaron becomes 2nd major leaguer to hit 700 HRs 1979 National Women’s Hall of Fame (Seneca Falls, NY) dedicated 1984 1st documented case of a robot killing a human in US 1990 Goodwill Games opens in Seattle Wash 1990 Pink Floyds’ “The Wall” is performed where the Berlin Wall once stood]]]]> ]]>