21 July

Events which occurred on the 21st of July.

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356 BC: History records that Alexander the Great was born on July 20th or 21st.
1796: Poet Robert Burns dies.
1889: Wounded Arizona Ranger John Dawson combats five outlaws in a canyon in Colorado, hiding out in millennium-old Hopi cliff ruins and caverns. He accidentally steps onto Kokopelli's long distance transporter and is beamed to similar caverns on Equinox, a Cardassian planet. (ST - Strange New Worlds V short story: "The Peacemakers")
1899: Writer Ernest Hemingway is born.
1961: The second American astronaut in space, Gus Grissom travels aboard Liberty Bell 7 as part of Project Mercury. (NF - The Captain's Table novel: Once Burned)
1966: Gemini 10 splashes down on Earth.
1969: Apollo 11 astronauts explore the Lunar surface.
1998: Astronaut Alan Shepard dies.
2011: NASA's final space shuttle mission ends with the landing of Atlantis at Cape Canaveral.
2155: On Qo'noS, Captain Jonathan Archer duels with Admiral Krell at the direction of Klingon Chancellor M'Rek, his victory earning him the right to hear the truth about the incident at Draylax. (ENT novel: Kobayashi Maru)
2267: Aboard Omari-Ekon, Orion merchant-prince Ganz permits Joshua Kane to accept a 10-million credit contract with Kutal to steal the Mirdonyae Artifact from Vanguard. (VAN novel: Precipice)

1973: The 5th installment of TOS comic: "Shell Game" is published in Valiant and TV21, Issue 95.
1980: The 23rd installment of TOS comic: "Aberration on Abaris" is published in daily newspapers by the Los Angeles Times Syndicate.
1981: The 87th and final installment of TOS comic: "The Savage Within" is published.
1982: The 4th installment of TOS comic: "The Nogura Regatta" is published.
1983: The 16th installment of TOS comic: "Terminally Yours" is published.
2007: Remastered edition of TOS episode: "The Squire of Gothos" airs.
2020: TOS - Year Five omnibus: The Wine-Dark Deep is released by IDW Publishing.