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Events on July 21

• 1495 At the Imperial Diet in Worms, the County of Württemberg is elevated to a duchy by the Roman-German King Maximilian I. under Count Eberhard I.
• 1762 During the Seven Years' War, the Prussians under Frederick the Great defeat the Austrians under Leopold Joseph von Daun in the Battle of Burkersdorf.
• 1831 Belgian state formation: Leopold I takes the oath on the Belgian Constitution and thereby becomes the first king after independence. This date has since been Belgium's national holiday.
• 1922 On the occasion of the assassination of Reich Foreign Minister Walther Rathenau on June 24, the Republic Protection Act is enacted under Reich Justice Minister Gustav Radbruch to protect the Weimar Republic from anti-republic activities.
• 1938 The first ascent of the Eiger's North Face by Heinrich Harrer, Fritz Kasparek, Anderl Heckmair and Ludwig Vörg begins.
• 1950 The elephant cow Tuffi jumps from the Wuppertal Suspension Railway into the Wupper River.
• 1969 At 02:56:20 UT, Neil Armstrong becomes the first human to set foot on the Moon. Buzz Aldrin follows him shortly thereafter.
• 1990 Roger Waters performs The Wall in Potsdamer Square in Berlin.
• 2005 Federal President Horst Köhler dissolves the Bundestag and calls new elections for September 18.
• 2007 The seventh and final Harry Potter volume is published in English.
• 2011 With the landing of the NASA Space Shuttle Atlantis following the completion of mission STS-135, the era of the Space Shuttles comes to an end.
• 2024 US President Joe Biden announces his withdrawal from the candidacy in the upcoming US presidential election in November of the same year.

Born on July 21

• 1858 Lovis Corinth, German painter
• 1893 Hans Fallada, German social-critical writer
• 1911 Marshall McLuhan, Canadian media scholar
• 1920 Isaac Stern, American violist
• 1951 Eberhard Gienger, German apparatus gymnast and politician
• 1951 Robin Williams, American actor
• 1960 Fritz Walter, German footballer
• 1971 Charlotte Gainsbourg, French actress
• 1981 Stefan Schumacher, German racing cyclist
• 2000 Erling Braut Haaland, Norwegian footballer

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Source of events and birthdays: German Wikipedia article „21. Juli“, licence CC BY-SA 4.0, selected, shortened and translated by Birthday Paper.

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