July 21 - Bear

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This Day In History

356 BC

The Temple of Artemis in Ephesus, one of the Seven Wonders of the World, is destroyed by arson.

1873

At Adair, Iowa, Jesse James and the James-Younger Gang pull off the first successful train robbery in the American Old West.

1961

Mercury-Redstone 4 – Gus Grissom, piloting Liberty Bell 7, becomes the second American to go into space.

1983

The world's lowest temperature is recorded at Vostok Station, Antarctica at −128.6 °F.

1997

The fully restored USS Constitution (aka Old Ironsides) celebrates her 200th birthday by setting sail for the first time in 116 years.

2011

NASA's Space Shuttle program ends with the landing of Atlantis on mission STS-135.

Famous Birthdays

1620

Jean Picard, French astronomer (d. 1682)

1899

Ernest Hemingway, American writer, Nobel laureate (d. 1961)

1911

Marshall McLuhan, Canadian author and media theorist (d. 1980)

1920

Isaac Stern, Ukrainian-born violinist (d. 2001)

1948

Snooty, the oldest known Florida manatee

1951

Robin Williams, American comedian/actor

1956

Michael Connelly, American author

1977

Jaime Murray, British actress