Today in History....July 21

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1861, the first Battle of Bull Run was fought at Manassas, Va., resulting in a Confederate victory

1944, American forces landed on Guam during World War II
1949, the U.S. Senate ratified the North Atlantic Treaty

1954, the Geneva Accords divided Vietnam into northern and southern entities

1955, during the Geneva summit, President Eisenhower presented his "open skies" proposal under which the U.S. and the Soviet Union would trade information on each other's military facilities

1969, Apollo 11 astronauts Neil Armstrong and Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin blasted off from the moon aboard the lunar module


1980, draft registration began in the United States for 19- and 20-year-old men

1996, dozens of memorial services were held across the country to remember the 230 people lost in the crash of TWA Flight 800


2000, Special Counsel John C. Danforth concluded "with 100 percent certainty" that the federal government was innocent of wrongdoing in the siege that killed 80 members of the Branch Davidian compound near Waco, Texas, in 1993. ALSO: Group of 8 leaders met for an economic summit on the Japanese island of Okinawa, where President Clinton also sought to soothe long-simmering tensions over the huge American military presence


2001, street battles raged for a second day in Genoa, Italy, site of a Group of Eight meeting, despite pleas for calm from protest leaders and global summit leaders alike


2005, terrorists attempt to attack the London transit system by planting bombs on three subways and on one bus; none of the bombs detonate completely. The attempted attack came exactly two weeks after terrorists killed 56 people, including themselves, and wounded 700 others in the largest attack on Great Britain since World War II. The previous attack also targeted three subways and one bus