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What Happened on August 21st This Day in History

Year	Name
2017	A solar eclipse traverses the continental United States.
2013	Hundreds of people are reported killed by chemical attacks in the Ghouta region of Syria.
2000	American golfer Tiger Woods wins the 82nd PGA Championship and becomes the first golfer since Ben Hogan in 1953 to win three majors in a calendar year.
1995	Atlantic Southeast Airlines Flight 529, an Embraer EMB 120 Brasilia, attempts to divert to West Georgia Regional Airport after the left engine fails, but the aircraft crashes in Carroll County near Carrollton, Georgia, killing nine of the 29 people on board.
1994	Royal Air Maroc Flight 630 crashes in Douar Izounine, Morocco, killing all 44 people on board.
1993	NASA loses contact with the Mars Observer spacecraft.
1991	Latvia declares renewal of its full independence after its occupation by the Soviet Union since 1940.
1991	Coup attempt against Mikhail Gorbachev collapses.
1988	The 6.9 Mw  Nepal earthquake shakes the Nepal–India border with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VIII (Severe), leaving 709–1,450 people killed and thousands injured.
1986	Carbon dioxide gas erupts from volcanic Lake Nyos in Cameroon, killing up to 1,800 people within a 20-kilometer range.
1983	Philippine opposition leader Benigno Aquino Jr. is assassinated at Manila International Airport (now renamed Ninoy Aquino International Airport in his honor).
1982	Lebanese Civil War: The first troops of a multinational force lands in Beirut to oversee the Palestine Liberation Organization's withdrawal from Lebanon.
1971	A bomb exploded in the Liberal Party campaign rally in Plaza Miranda, Manila, Philippines with several anti-Marcos political candidates injured.
1968	Cold War: Nicolae Ceaușescu, leader of the Socialist Republic of Romania, publicly condemns the Soviet-led Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia, encouraging the Romanian population to arm itself against possible Soviet reprisals.
1968	James Anderson Jr. posthumously receives the first Medal of Honor to be awarded to an African American U.S. Marine.
1965	The Socialist Republic of Romania is proclaimed, following the adoption of a new constitution.
1963	Xá Lợi Pagoda raids: The Army of the Republic of Vietnam Special Forces loyal to Ngô Đình Nhu, brother of President Ngo Dinh Diem, vandalizes Buddhist pagodas across the country, arresting thousands and leaving an estimated hundreds dead.
1959	United States President Dwight D. Eisenhower signs an executive order proclaiming Hawaii the 50th state of the union. Hawaii's admission is currently commemorated by Hawaii Admission Day.
1957	The Soviet Union successfully conducts a long-range test flight of the R-7 Semyorka, the first intercontinental ballistic missile.
1945	Physicist Harry Daghlian is fatally irradiated in a criticality accident during an experiment with the Demon core at Los Alamos National Laboratory.
1944	Dumbarton Oaks Conference, prelude to the United Nations, begins.
1944	World War II: Canadian and Polish units capture the strategically important town of Falaise, Calvados, France.
1942	World War II: The Guadalcanal Campaign: American forces defeat an attack by Imperial Japanese Army soldiers in the Battle of the Tenaru.
1918	World War I: The Second Battle of the Somme begins.
1914	World War I: The Battle of Charleroi, a successful German attack across the River Sambre that pre-empted a French offensive in the same area.
1911	The Mona Lisa is stolen by Vincenzo Peruggia, a Louvre employee.
1901	Six hundred American school teachers, Thomasites, arrived in Manila on the USAT Thomas.
1888	The first successful adding machine in the United States is patented by William Seward Burroughs.
1883	An F5 tornado strikes Rochester, Minnesota, leading to the creation of the Mayo Clinic.
1879	The locals of Knock, County Mayo, Ireland report their having seen an apparition of the Virgin Mary. The apparition is later named “Our Lady of Knock” and the spot transformed into a Catholic pilgrimage site.
1878	The American Bar Association is founded in Saratoga Springs, New York.
1863	Lawrence, Kansas is destroyed by pro-Confederate guerrillas known as Quantrill's Raiders.
1862	The Stadtpark, the first public park in Vienna, opens to the public.
1858	The first of the Lincoln–Douglas debates is held in Ottawa, Illinois.
1852	Tlingit Indians destroy Fort Selkirk, Yukon Territory.
1831	Nat Turner leads black slaves and free blacks in a rebellion in Southampton County, Virginia, which will claim the lives of 55 to 65 whites and about twice that number of blacks.
1821	Jarvis Island is discovered by the crew of the ship, Eliza Frances.
1810	Jean-Baptiste Bernadotte, Marshal of France, is elected Crown Prince of Sweden by the Swedish Riksdag of the Estates.
1808	Battle of Vimeiro: British and Portuguese forces led by General Arthur Wellesley defeat French force under Major-General Jean-Andoche Junot near the village of Vimeiro, Portugal, the first Anglo-Portuguese victory of the Peninsular War.
1791	A Vodou ceremony, led by Dutty Boukman, turns into a violent slave rebellion, beginning the Haitian Revolution.
1778	American Revolutionary War: British forces begin besieging the French outpost at Pondichéry.
1772	King Gustav III completes his coup d'état by adopting a new Constitution, ending half a century of parliamentary rule in Sweden and installing himself as an enlightened despot.
1770	James Cook formally claims eastern Australia for Great Britain, naming it New South Wales.
1716	Seventh Ottoman–Venetian War: The arrival of naval reinforcements and the news of the Battle of Petrovaradin force the Ottomans to abandon the Siege of Corfu, thus preserving the Ionian Islands under Venetian rule.
1689	The Battle of Dunkeld in Scotland.
1680	Pueblo Indians capture Santa Fe from the Spanish during the Pueblo Revolt.
1415	Henry the Navigator leads Portuguese forces to victory over the Marinids at the Conquest of Ceuta.
1331	King Stefan Uroš III, after months of anarchy, surrenders to his son and rival Stefan Dušan, who succeeds as King of Serbia.
1192	Minamoto no Yoritomo becomes Sei-i Taishōgun and the de facto ruler of Japan. (Traditional Japanese date: the 12th day of the seventh month in the third year of the Kenkyū (建久) era).
1169	Battle of the Blacks: Uprising by the black African forces of the Fatimid army, along with a number of Egyptian emirs and commoners, against Saladin. The uprising is defeated after two days, consolidating Saladin's position as master of Egypt.
1140	Song dynasty general Yue Fei defeats an army led by Jin dynasty general Wuzhu at the Battle of Yancheng during the Jin–Song Wars.
959	Eraclus becomes the 25th bishop of Liège.

Famous People Born on August 21

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Year	Name
1879	Claude Grahame-White, English pilot and engineer (d. 1959)
1926	Can Yücel, Turkish poet and translator (d. 1999)
1936	Radish Tordia, Georgian painter and educator
1481	Jorge de Lencastre, Duke of Coimbra (d. 1550)
1989	Charlison Benschop, Dutch footballer
1954	Steve Smith, American drummer
1971	Robert Harvey, Australian footballer and coach
1978	Alan Lee, Irish footballer and coach
1974	Martin Andanar, Filipino journalist and radio host
1945	Jerry DaVanon, American baseball player

Famous People Deaths On August 21

Here is a list of some famous peope who died on August 21. For full list please click on the link above.

Date	Name
1911	Mahboob Ali Khan, sixth Nizam of Hyderabad State (b.1866)
1940	Hermann Obrecht, Swiss lawyer and politician (b. 1882)
2003	John Coplans, British artist (b. 1920)
2015	Colin Beyer, New Zealand lawyer and businessman (b. 1938)
1888	James Farnell, Australian politician, eighth Premier of New South Wales (b. 1825)
1968	Germaine Guèvremont, Canadian journalist and author (b. 1893)
2006	Bismillah Khan, Indian musician, Bharat Ratna recipient (b. 1916)
1838	Adelbert von Chamisso, German botanist and poet (b. 1781)
1919	Laurence Doherty, English tennis player (b. 1875)
2014	Gerry Anderson, Irish radio and television host (b. 1944)