Portal:Speculative fiction/Anniversaries/July/July 21

July 21:

Television series
 * 1997 - Mission Genesis, a science fiction TV series based on Deepwater Black by Ken Catran, begins airing on Th SciFi Channel

Deaths
 * 1985 - Jack Gaughan (b. 1930), an American science fiction artist and illustrator who won the Hugo Award several times