Historical Events for 21st July 2023

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1545 - The first landing of French troops onto the coast of the Isle of Wight during the French invasion
1853 - Central Park in New York created when New York State Legislature puts aside more than 750 acres of land on Manhattan Island
1865 - In market square of Springfield, Missouri, Wild Bill Hickok shoots and kills Davis Tutt in what is regarded as the first true western showdown
1944 - British premier Winston Churchill flies to France, meets Montgomery
1952 - 7.8 earthquake shakes Kern County California, 14 killed
1954 - Geneva Accords for Indochina signed, dividing French colonial territories into the countries of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (North Vietnam), the State of Vietnam (South Vietnam), Cambodia, and Laos
1969 - Apollo 11: Neil Armstrong becomes the first person to step on the Moon at 2:56:15 AM (GMT)
1973 - France performs nuclear Test at Mururoa Atoll in the Pacific
1975 - Soyuz 19 returns to Earth
1997 - NY Yank Mike Whiton held in Milwaukee on charges of sexual assault

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