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This Date in History (July 21)

1831 – Belgium became independent as Leopold I was proclaimed King of the Belgians.

1944 – American forces landed on Guam during World War II.

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

2002 – Telecommunications giant WorldCom Inc. filed for bankruptcy protection after disclosing it had inflated profits by nearly $4 billion through deceptive accounting.

2008 – Former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic, one of the world’s top war crimes fugitives, was arrested in a Belgrade suburb by Serbian security forces.