Historical Events for 21st July 2024

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976 - Emperor Otto II gives earl Leopold I, East Bavaria
1773 - Pope Clemens XIV bans Jesuits
1949 - US Senate ratifies North Atlantic Treaty by a vote of 82-13 (NATO)
1966 - USSR performs nuclear Test at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in northeast Kazakhstan
1975 - NY Met Félix Millán hits 4 singles; erased by Joe Torres 4 double plays
1980 - Jean-Claude Droyer climbs Eiffel Tower in 2 hrs 18 mins
1995 - Brian Lara completes a pair for West Indians v Kent
1996 - British Open Men's Golf, Royal Lytham and St. Annes: American Tom Lehman wins his only major championship by 2 strokes from Mark McCumber and Ernie Els; first American to win at Lytham since Bobby Jones 70 years earlier
2008 - Bosnian Serb politician Radovan Karadžić is arrested in Serbia and indicted by the UN International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia tribunal for genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes during the 1995 Srebrenica massacre
2013 - British Open Men's Golf, Muirfield: Phil Mickelson wins his 5th major, by 3 strokes from Henrik Stenson of Sweden

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