21 July What Happened On This Day In History

 21 July What Happened On This Day In History

1977 - Neelam Sanjiva Reddi was elected as President of India

On this day 21 July 1977, Neelam Sanjiva Reddy was elected as the youngest, unopposed, president of India and was sworn in as the sixth President of India on 25 July 1977.

2007 - The last book of Harry Potter Published

The book “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows” was released 21 July  2007. Harry Potter is a series of fantasy novels written by J K Rowling. The young-adult fiction series is about magic and the wizarding world.

1861-The First Battle of Bull Run (called First Manassas by the South) was fought during the American Civil War.

1954-The Geneva Accords were signed on the morning of 21 July 1954. The Geneva Accords effectively divided Vietnam at the 17th parallel.

1960-Politician Sirimavo Bandaranaike became the world's first woman prime minister when she took office in Ceylon (later Sri Lanka).

1967-Albert John Luthuli, president of the African National Congress (1952–60) and the first African to be awarded a Nobel Prize for Peace (1960), died after being struck by a train.

1961-Virgil I. (“Gus”) Grissom became the second American to enter space during Project Mercury.

2011-Atlantis
The U.S. space shuttle program ended, after 135 missions, as the orbiter Atlantis landed at NASA's John F. Kennedy Space Center at Cape Canaveral, Florida.

1983-Lowest temperature ever measured on Earth
Vostok Station, a Russian station on Antarctica experienced the lowest temperatures ever measured in recorded human history. The temperatures fell to −128.6 °F (−89.2 °C)