JULY 21, 2026

Here’s what happened on this day in history — the stories that shaped the world.

■  TODAY’S LEAD STORYUnion troops marched toward Virginia in 1861 expecting an easy, decisive victory — and what happened instead changed everyone’s understanding of what this war would cost.READ FULL STORY → 

■  ALSO ON THIS DAYA baby born in an ordinary Illinois suburb in 1899 grew up to strip American prose down to its bones — and change literature for an entire century.READ MORE → 

■  MORE FROM HISTORYMillions of people in dozens of countries opened the same book at the same midnight hour in 2007 — one of publishing’s last truly shared moments.READ MORE → 

■  DID YOU KNOW?

The inventor of the Pringles can, Fredric Baur, was so proud of his design that he asked to have his ashes buried in one after he died in 2008. His family honored the request, using a regular-size can to hold part of his remains.

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