deaths
July 21, 2018
Alene Duerk, U.S. Navy first female admiral (born 1920)
Alene Duerk
Alene Bertha Duerk became the first female admiral in the U.S. Navy in 1972. She was also the director of the U.S. Navy Nurse Corps from 1970 to 1975. She is a 1974 recipient of a Distinguished Alumni Award of Case Western Reserve University's Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing.
July 21
July 21 is the 202nd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar; 163 days remain until the end of the year.