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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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