Historically Speaking of July 21st

July 21, 2006

Today is the 202nd day of the year – there are 163 days remaining in 2006

Notable events from this date:

• 2005 - Exactly 2 weeks after being bombed, the London transit system is again targeted with 4 bombs – all fail to detonate and the suicide bombers escape
• 2002 - The telecommunications giant WorldCom files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection – the largest filing in U.S. history
• 1994 - Tony Blair is elected leader of the British Labour Party, he would be elected Prime Minister in 1997
• 1973 - The Lillehammer Affair-Israeli Mossad agents mistakenly kill a waiter who they thought was suspect from Munich Olympics massacre
• 1970 - Egypt’s Aswan High Dam is completed after 11 years of construction
• 1954 - The ill-fated Geneva Conference - ending the French Indochina War - divides Vietnam into 2 countries at the 17th parallel
• 1873 - Jesse James pulls off the 1st successful train robbery in the American West
• 1861 - The American Civil War begins with Confederate victory at 1st Battle of Bull Run

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