^B{^#!16!21 July^N! National day of Belgium. Feast day of St Laurence of Brindisi, St Victor of Marseilles, St Arbogastes, and St Praxedes.
^B{1798^B} The Battle of the Pyramids took place, in which Napoleon, soon after his invasion of Egypt, defeated an army of some 60,000 Mamelukes. ^B{1861^B} The Confederates defeated the Union troops in the first Battle of Bull Run, in the American Civil War. ^B{1897^B} London's Tate Gallery, built on the site of the Millbank Prison, was opened. ^B{1944^B} Guam, in the western Pacific, which had been under Japanese occupation since Dec ^B{1941,^B} was retaken by US Marines. ^B{1960^B} Sirimavo Bandaranaika replaced her murdered husband as prime minister of Sri Lanka, becoming the first woman to hold this office. ^B{1969^B} The lunar module ^I{Apollo 11^I} landed on the Moon, and US astronauts Armstrong and Aldrin took their first exploratory walk. ^B{1990^B} More than 150,000 people attended 'The Wall', a large-scale concert staged by rock performers in East Berlin to celebrate the dismantling of the Berlin Wall.
^B{^I{^#!14!Born ^N}Paul Julius von Reuter, German news agency founder, ^B{1816^B}; Ernest Hemingway, US novelist, ^B{1899^B}; Kay Starr, US singer, ^B{1922^B}; Norman Jewison, Canadian film director, ^B{1926^B}; Jonathan Miller, English TV, film and theater director, ^B{1934^B}; Cat Stevens, English rock singer and songwriter, ^B{1948^B}.
^B{^I{^#!14!Died ^N}Robert Burns, Scottish poet, ^B{1796^B}; Ellen Tracy, English actress, ^B{1928^B}; George Macaulay Trevelyan, British historian, ^B{1962^B}; Albert Luthuli, South African politician, ^B{1967^B}; Basil Rathbone, English actor, ^B{1967^B} James F Fixx, US jogging guru, while running in Vermont, ^B{1984^B}.
