Today is Saturday, July 21, the 203rd day of 2012. There are 163 days left in the year.
1588 ― English fleet defeats Spanish armada
1831 ― Belgium gains independence from Netherland, Leopold I made king
1940 ― Soviet Union annexes Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania
1969 ― Neil Armstrong steps on the Moon at 2:56:15 a.m. (GMT)
1973 ― USSR launches Mars 4 for fly-by (2,600 km) of the red planet
1973 ― Hank Aaron becomes second major leaguer to hit 700 homeruns
1976 ― First outbreak of ``Legionnaire's Disease" kills 29 in Philadelphia
1980 ― Jean-Claude Droyer climbs the Eiffel Tower in 2 hours 18 minutes
1984 ― First documented case of a robot killing a human in U.S.
1990 ― Pink Floyds' ``The Wall" is performed where the Berlin Wall once stood