Timeline Thursday 21 July 1938

Events on Thursday 21 July 1938 3

• 1860 – 1938 Owen Wister (1860-1938) Died 21 July 1938, aged 78 Wister was an American writer whose novel The Virginian helped establish the Western as a literary genre.
• 1938 First ascent of the Eiger north face Heckmair, Vörg, Harrer and Kasparek climb the Nordwand A German-Austrian team made the first ascent of the Eiger's north face in the Bernese Alps. Several earlier attempts had ended in deaths. Heinrich Harrer later wrote the classic account "The White Spider".
• 1938 – 2016 Janet Reno (1938-2016) Died 7 November 2016, aged 78 Reno served as U.S. Attorney General from 1993 to 2001, the first woman to hold the position and the longest-serving Attorney General in the 20th century. Her tenure included the Waco siege and the Elian Gonzalez custody case. She later lived with Parkinson's disease.