Daily Calendar for July 21st, 2018

The Old Farmer's Almanac daily calendar gives you quick reference for the significant events on any day throughout the year.

Tisha B'Av

Tisha B'Av begins at nightfall on August 10 and lasts through the 11th. During this time, Jewish people mourn the destruction of the Temple in Jerusalem, beginning the people's exile and slavery. Tisha B'Av is the saddest day on the Jewish calendar and is observed by fasting and prayer.

1290s

• 1298: Battle of Falkirk: England's Edward Longshank defeated William Wallace's Scottish rebels

1790s

• Died 1796: Robert Burns (poet)

1830s

• 1836: Canada's first public railway (Champlain and St. Lawrence) opened

1860s

• 1861: The first major military engagement in the Civil War took place at Bull Run Creek, Virginia

1870s

• 1873: Jesse James held up the Rock Island Express and escaped with $3,000. It was his first train robbery

1880s

• Born 1881: George Frederick Dick (American pathologist)

1890s

• Born 1899: Ernest Hemingway (author)

• Born 1899: Hart Crane (poet)

1920s

• Born 1920: Isaac Stern (violinist)

• Born 1924: Don Knotts (actor)

• 1925: John T. Scopes found guilty of teaching evolution in class and fined $100

1950s

• Born 1952: Robin Williams (actor)

• 1959: The world's first nuclear-powered merchant vessel, the Savannah, launched

1960s

• 1961: Captain Gus Grissom, piloting the Mercury 4 capsule Liberty Bell 7, became the second American to go into space (sub-orbital flight)

• Born 1968: Brandi Chastain (soccer player)

1970s

• Born 1978: Josh Hartnett (actor)

• Born 1979: David Carr (football player)

1980s

• 1984: In Jackson, Michigan, a factory robot crushed a worker against a safety bar in the first known robot-related death in the U.S.

1990s

• Died 1998: Alan Shepard, Jr. (astronaut)

• Died 1998: Robert Young (actor, television's iconic dad of Father Knows Best)

2000s

• 2000: Discovery of the subatomic particle tau-neutrino announced

• Died 2004: Jerry Goldsmith (composer who created the memorable music for scores of classic movies and television shows ranging from Star Trek and Planet of the Apes to The Man from U.N.C.L.E. and Dr. Kildare)