21st July 1970: Construction of the Aswan High Dam completed in Egypt

20th July 1969: NASA’s Apollo 11 spacecraft lands on the moon

19th July 1799: Announcement made of the discovery of the Rosetta Stone near the Egyptian town of Rashid

18th July 1976: Nadia Comăneci scores the first ever Olympic gymnastic ‘perfect 10’

17th July 1918: Russian Imperial Romanov family shot dead by Bolsheviks in the basement of the Ipatiev House in the city of Ekaterinburg

16th July 1945: USA tests the first ever nuclear bomb, code-named ‘Trinity’

15th July 1834: Abolition of the Spanish Inquisition, formally known as the Tribunal of the Holy Office of the Inquisition

14th July 1789: Storming of the Bastille in Paris