07-20-2010, 07:05 PM
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Location: Maryland
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July 21st
1796 ~ Death of Robert Burns, Scottish Poet.
1861 ~ First Battle of Bull Run - the first major battle of the American Civil War began.
1911 ~ Birthday of Marshall McLuhan, Canadian Communications Theorist.
1925 ~ In Dayton, Tennessee, high school biology teacher John Scopes was found guilty of teaching evolution in class and fined $100.
1948 ~ Birthday of Cat Stevens (Yusuf Islam), English Singer.
1954 ~ France surrendered North Vietnam to the Viet Minh.
1970 ~ The Aswan High Dam in Egypt was completed at the end of eleven years of construction
1994 ~ Tony Blair was declared the winner of the leadership election of the British Labour Party.
2006 ~ Death Ta Mok, Khmer Rouge war criminal.
2008 ~ Radovan Karadžić was arrested in Serbia and indicted by the UN's ICTY tribunal for War Crimes.
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