TODAY in HISTORY: July 21

Following are some of the major events to have occurred on July 21

 

1773: Pope Clement XIV abolishes the Jesuit order.

 

1798: Napoleon Bonaparte defeats the Arab Mameluke warriors at the Battle of the Pyramids.

 

1861: In the first major battle of the Civil War, Confederate forces defeat the Union Army along Bull Run near Manassas Junction, Virginia. The battle becomes known as Manassas by the Confederates, while the Union calls it Bull Run.

 

1865: Wild Bill Hickok kills gunman Dave Tutt in Springfield, Missouri, in what is regarded as the first formal quick-draw duel.

 

1873: The James Gang robs a train in Adair, Iowa.

 

1896: Mary Church Terrell founds the National Association of Colored Women in Washington, D.C.

 

1906: French Captain Alfred Dreyfus is vindicated of his earlier court-martial for spying for Germany.

 

1919: The British House of Lords ratifies the Versailles Treaty.

 

1925: John Scopes is found guilty for teaching evolution in Dayton, Tenn., and is fined $100.

 

1941: France accepts Japan's demand for military control of Indochina.

 

1944: U.S. Army and Marine forces land on Guam in the Marianas.

 

1954: The French sign an armistice with the Viet Minh that ends the war but divides Vietnam into two countries.

 

1960: Sirimavo Bandaranaike becomes the first woman prime minister of Ceylon.