July 21 across historical events, births, deaths, and annual observances.
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From 2019 until 2020, protests were held in Hong Kong in response to the Hong Kong government's introduction of a bill to amend the Fugitive Offenders Ordinance in regard to extradition. It was the largest series of demonstrations in the history of Hong Kong.
Village/harbour-side town in Matruh, Egypt
1960s–1998 conflict in Northern Ireland
Prime Minister of Sri Lanka (1916–2000)
7.3 earthquake in the San Joaquin Valley
Series of protests, general strikes, and riots which gripped La Paz in July 1946
American schoolteacher and Scopes Trial figure (1900–1970)
Second-most populous city in Pennsylvania, U.S.
1378–82 labourer revolt in Florence, Italy
Portuguese actress and model (born 1991)
Tunisian association football player (born 1987)
American football player and magician (born 1980)
American politician, nurse, and activist (born 1976)
Finnish screenwriter and film director (born 1976)
American baseball player and coach (1972–2021)
French and British actress and singer (born 1971)
English actor and journalist (born 1964)
Brazilian basketball player, mixed martial artist and professional wrestler
1st Viceroy of New Spain, (r. 1535–50); 3rd Viceroy of Peru (r. 1551–52)
14th-century English noble (1364–1403)
Chinese politician, poet and concubine (664–710)
Spanish motorcycle racer (2008–2025)
American singer (1926–2023)
American actor (1946–2017)
Musical artist
Dutch footballer (1949–2015)
New Zealand rugby union player
Italian Roman Catholic saint
South African politician (c. 1898–1967)
7th-century missionary; Bishop of Strasbourg
Christian martyr (d. 355)
Brazilian Catholic bishop (1888–1961)
Protagonist of the Book of Daniel of the Hebrew Bible
Catholic priest and theologian
Second century Christian saint
3rd-century Egyptian martyr and saint
