Unknown author (Nobel Foundation), Public Domain, Wikimedia Commons 1967 Anti-apartheid leader and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Albert Luthuli died near his home in Groutville, South Africa.
DeathOn this day — July 21 in African history
Real events, births and milestones from Africa and the diaspora.
Unknown author (Nobel Foundation), Public Domain, Wikimedia Commons 1967 
Orlova-tpe, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons The Aswan High Dam on the Nile was completed after eleven years of construction.
Science
Unknown author (US National Archives), Public Domain, Wikimedia Commons 1977 Fighting broke out between Egypt and Libya in the brief Egyptian-Libyan War.
PoliticsA massive earthquake off Crete triggered a tsunami that devastated the coasts of Libya and Egypt, especially Alexandria, killing many thousands.
History
François-Louis-Joseph Watteau — Public Domain, Wikimedia Commons 1798 Napoleon's forces defeated an Ottoman-Mamluk army near Cairo at the Battle of the Pyramids.
History
Manny's Baseball Land — Public Domain, Wikimedia Commons 1959 Pumpsie Green became the first African American to play for the Boston Red Sox, the last Major League Baseball team to integrate.
History
Simon Wedege — CC BY 3.0, Wikimedia Commons 1944 John Atta Mills, who later became president of Ghana, was born.
Birth
oficinalis — CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons 1921 Vusamazulu Credo Mutwa, the Zulu sangoma, sculptor, and author who became a prominent voice on Zulu traditional culture, was born.
Birth