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Today in History: July 21
1403
Henry IV defeats the Percys in the Battle of Shrewsbury in England.

1667
The Peace of Breda ends the Second Anglo-Dutch War and cedes Dutch New Amsterdam to the English.

1711
Russia and Turkey sign the Treaty of Pruth, ending the year-long Russo-Turkish War.

1718
The Treaty of Passarowitz is signed by Austria, Venice and the Ottoman Empire.

1773
Pope Clement XIV abolishes the Jesuit order.

1798
Napoleon Bonaparte defeats the Arab Mameluke warriors at the Battle of the Pyramids.

1861
In the first major battle of the Civil War, Confederate forces defeat the Union Army along Bull Run near Manassas Junction, Virginia. The battle becomes known as Manassas by the Confederates, while the Union calls it Bull Run.

1865
Wild Bill Hickok kills gunman Dave Tutt in Springfield, Missouri, in what is regarded as the first formal quick-draw duel.

1873
The James Gang robs a train in Adair, Iowa.

1896
Mary Church Terrell founds the National Association of Colored Women in Washington, D.C.

1906
French Captain Alfred Dreyfus is vindicated of his earlier court-martial for spying for Germany.

1919
The British House of Lords ratifies the Versailles Treaty.

1925
John Scopes is found guilty for teaching evolution in Dayton, Tenn., and is fined $100.

1941
France accepts Japan's demand for military control of Indochina.

1944
U.S. Army and Marine forces land on Guam in the Marianas.

1954
The French sign an armistice with the Viet Minh that ends the war but divides Vietnam into two countries.

1960
Sirimavo Bandaranaike becomes the first woman prime minister of Ceylon.

Today in History: Born on July 21
1881
Frederick Dick, physician.

1899
Ernest Hemingway, American novelist and short-story writer.

1911
Marshall McLuhan, communication theorist (The Medium is the Message).

1921
Billy Taylor, jazz pianist.

1943
Tess Gallagher, American writer.

1952
Robin Williams, American comedian and actor.

JOTD
A young couple get married and have their first night together in their new home.

As they are undressing for bed, the husband hands the wife his pants.

"Here, try these on," he says.

"What? Why?" she says.

"Just put them on," he insists.

"They're way too big," she says. "I can't wear those."

"That's right," he says. "I wear the pants in this marriage. Don't you forget it."

"Got it," she says, slipping off her panties and handing them to him. "Here, try these on."

He holds them up and sees how tiny they are.

"Are you kidding?" he says. "I can't get into your panties!"

"That's right. And that's the way it's going to stay until your attitude changes."