On This Day - July 21, A Shot of History

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2007 – The last Harry Potter book goes on sale, 10 years after the first book was published.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Potter_and_the_Deathly_Hallows
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nKsa4fvXGVc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m821kLfwrEc

356 BC – The Temple of Artemis in Ephesus, one of the Seven Wonders of the World, is destroyed by arson.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temple_of_Artemis
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Temple_of_Artemis.jpg
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Jerash_Temple_of_Artemis.jpg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=85tDhKPYicI

1972 – Bloody Friday: the Provisional IRA detonate 22 bombs in central Belfast, Northern Ireland, killing nine and injuring 130.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloody_Friday_%281972%29
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3s1iH3z8EhY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P987YFOPwU8

1948 – Cat Stevens is born.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cat_Stevens
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0k6mQyu2GxM

Produced by Anne-Sophie Goninet