On This Day
21 July
- 🇮🇳 In India
- 1988 Indian National Satellite (INSAT-1C) was launched.
- 2001 Sivaji Ganesan, Indian actor and producer, passed away.
- 🌎 Elsewhere
- 0356 BCE Herostratus set fire to the Temple of Artemis in Ephesus, one of the Seven Wonders of the World.
- 1796 Robert Burns, Scottish poet and a lyricist, died. He wrote the traditional song Auld Lang Syne.
- 1899 Ernest Hemingway, American novelist, short-story writer, journalist, and sportsman, was born.
- 1904 After 13 years, the construction work of 4,607-mile Trans-Siberian railway was completed.
- 1969 Apollo 11 astronauts Neil Armstrong and Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin blasted off from the moon aboard the lunar module.
- 2007 Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, the final book in J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter series, was released.
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