Today In History

Fri., July 21, 2000

In 1861: The first Battle of Bull Run was fought at Manassas, Va., resulting in a Confederate victory.

In 1925: The so-called Monkey Trial ended in Dayton, Tenn., with John T. Scopes convicted of violating state law for teaching Darwin’s Theory of Evolution. (The conviction was later overturned.) In 1944: American forces landed on Guam during World War II.

In 1949: The U.S. Senate ratified the North Atlantic Treaty.

In 1954: France surrendered North Vietnam to the Communists.

In 1955: During the Geneva summit, President Eisenhower presented his open skies proposal under which the United States and the Soviet Union would trade information about each other’s military facilities.

In 1961: Capt. Virgil “Gus” Grissom became the second American to rocket into a sub-orbital pattern around the Earth, flying aboard the Liberty Bell 7.

In 1969: Apollo 11 astronauts Neil Armstrong and Edwin “Buzz” Aldrin blasted off from the moon aboard the lunar module.

In 1980: draft registration began in the United States for 19- and 20-year-old men.

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