Today is Tuesday, July 21, the 202nd day of 2009. There are 163 days left in the year.
1588 _ English fleet defeats Spanish armada
1831 _ Belgium gains independence from Netherland, Leopold I made king
1873 _ Jesse James, first train robbery
1898 _ Spain cedes Guam to U.S.
1940 _ Soviet Union annexes Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania
1954 _ At Geneva, France agrees to independence of North and South Vietnam
1969 _ Neil Armstrong steps on the Moon at 2:56:15 a.m. (GMT)
1973 _ Hank Aaron becomes second major leaguer to hit 700 HRs
1978 _ World's strongest dog, 80-kg St. Bernard, pulls 2,909-kg load 27 meters
1990 _ Pink Floyds' ``The Wall" is performed where the Berlin Wall once stood