📜 This Day in History

July 21

• 230Pope Pontian began his pontificate, succeeding Urban I.
• 905Louis III, Holy Roman Emperor, was captured and blinded during his attempt to restore Carolingian power over Italy by King Berengar I.
• 1925American high-school biology teacher John T. Scopes was found guilty of violating Tennessee's Butler Act which forbade teaching evolution in class.
• 1959The inaugural International Mathematical Olympiad, the leading mathematical competition for pre-university students, began in Romania.
• 1990The Taiwanese military ordered the deportation of dozens of illegal immigrants from mainland China in sealed boat holds, causing 25 deaths due to suffocation.
• 2019People returning from anti–extradition bill protests in Hong Kong were attacked by suspected triad members in Yuen Long, leaving 45 people injured.

Born on this day

• 1899Ernest Hemingway, American novelist, short story writer, and journalist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1961)
• 1911Marshall McLuhan, Canadian author and theorist (died 1980)
• 1951Robin Williams, American actor and comedian (died 2014)
• 2000Erling Haaland, Norwegian footballer