JULY 21
2007:The final volume of J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter series, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, goes on sale at midnight. Twelve million copies of the soon-to-be bestseller will be printed for the U.S. alone.
1861: Spectators from Washington, D.C., who came to the battlefield expecting a Union rout in the first major engagement of the Civil War, are shocked into panicky flight as the first Battle of Bull Run results in a Confederate victory.
1873: Jesse James and the James-Younger gang commit one of the first train robberies in the American West, holding up a Rock Island train near Adair, Iowa, and stealing $3,000. Engineer John Rafferty is killed when the train derails.
1861: Spectators from Washington, D.C., who came to the battlefield expecting a Union rout in the first major engagement of the Civil War, are shocked into panicky flight as the first Battle of Bull Run results in a Confederate victory.
1873: Jesse James and the James-Younger gang commit one of the first train robberies in the American West, holding up a Rock Island train near Adair, Iowa, and stealing $3,000. Engineer John Rafferty is killed when the train derails.
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