Today is Wednesday, July 21, the 202nd day of 2010. 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
1940 ― Soviet Union annexes Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania
1944 ― U.S. forces free Guam of Japanese invaders
1954 ― At Geneva, France agrees to independence of North and South Vietnam
1969 ― Neil Armstrong steps on the Moon at 2:56:15 AM (GMT)
1976 ― First outbreak of ``Legionnaire's Disease" kills 29 in Philadelphia
1980 ― Jean-Claude Droyer climbs the Eiffel Tower in 2 hours and 18 minutes
1990 ― Pink Floyds' ``The Wall" is performed where the Berlin Wall once stood