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| ==Births== | |||
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| *] - King ] (d. ]) | |||
| *] - ], Japanese samurai and warlord (d. ]) | |||
| *] - ], Bishop of Geneva and saint (d. ]) | |||
| *] - ], English antiquarian and royalist (d. ]) | |||
| *] - King ] (d. ]) | |||
| *] - ], French scientist and civil engineer (d. ]) | |||
| *] - ], French-Italian astronomer (d. ]) | |||
| *] - ], French military leader (d. ]) | |||
| *] - ], French painter (d. ]) | |||
| *] - ], Scottish inventor (d. ]) | |||
| * 1754 - ], British soldier and politician (d. ]) | |||
| *] - ] (d. ]) | |||
| *] - ], French mathematician (d. ]) | |||
| *] - ], French historian (d. ]) | |||
| *] - ], American politician (d. ]) | |||
| *] - ], Dutch politician (d. ]) | |||
| *] - ], Belgian chemist (d. ]) | |||
| *] - ], French chemist (d. ]) | |||
| *] - ], German anatomist (d. ]) | |||
| *] - ], English illustrator (d. ]) | |||
| *] - ], World's oldest living man 2004-2007 (d. ]) | |||
| *] - ], French actor and director (d. ]) | |||
| *] - ], American bandleader (d. ]) | |||
| *] - ], American movie animator (d. ]) | |||
| *] - ], British writer (d. ]) | |||
| *] - ], Russian mathematician (d. ]) | |||
| *] - ], ] player and coach (]) (d. ]) | |||
| *] - ], Danish singer (d. ]) | |||
| *] - ], Canadian ice hockey player (d. ]) | |||
| *] - ], inspiration for the ] stories (d. ]) | |||
| *] - ], American sports announcer (d. ]) | |||
| * 1924 - ], American sports journalist (d. ]) | |||
| * 1924 - ], American actor (d. ]) | |||
| *] - ], French actor and director (d. ]) | |||
| * 1925 - ], ex-dictator of ] | |||
| *] - ], 16th president of the (Mormon) Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints | |||
| *] - ], American trumpet player (d. ]) | |||
| *] - ], American poet | |||
| *] - ] (d. ]) | |||
| * 1930 - ], American film director (d. ]) | |||
| *] - ], American actor and screenwriter | |||
| *] - ], English mezzo-soprano | |||
| *] - ], Dutch composer, visual and sound artist | |||
| *] - ], American basketball player (d. ]) | |||
| * 1936 - ], Painter Of Figurative Art From ] | |||
| *] - ], American singer and actor | |||
| *] - ], American novelist | |||
| *] - ], American guitarist | |||
| * 1939 - ], American actor | |||
| * 1939 - ], president of ] | |||
| *] - ], American director, writer and actor | |||
| *] - ], American singer | |||
| * 1944 - ], Australian film director | |||
| * 1944 - ], former prime minister of the ] | |||
| *] - ], baseball player | |||
| * 1945 - ], American film score composer (d. ]) | |||
| *] - ], American actress | |||
| *] - ], Swiss singer | |||
| *] - ], Chilean mathematician and computer scientist | |||
| * 1951 - ], American medium | |||
| * 1951 - ], American television journalist | |||
| *] - ], Canadian playwright. | |||
| *] - ], British musician and singer (]) (d. ]) | |||
| * 1952 - ], British bassist and vocalist (]/]/]) | |||
| *] - ], former American football player and only two-time Heisman Trophy winner. | |||
| * 1954 - ], American writer | |||
| *] - ], English-born actress | |||
| *] - ], American football player | |||
| *] - ], American disc jockey | |||
| * 1961 - ], American animator and cartoonist | |||
| *] - ], American actor | |||
| *] - King ] | |||
| * 1963 - ], American actor | |||
| *] - ], American actress and model (d. ]) | |||
| *] - ], American baseball player | |||
| *] - ], ] player | |||
| *] - ], Canadian actress | |||
| * 1967 - ], Armenian-born singer (]) | |||
| * 1967 - ], AFL footballer | |||
| *] - ], Canadian figure skater | |||
| *] - ], American professional wrestler | |||
| * 1970 - ], Dutch cyclist | |||
| *] - ], British musician (]) | |||
| * 1971 - ], American Concert Organist | |||
| * 1971 - ], Australian Rules Footballer (]) | |||
| *] - ], Canadian ice hockey player | |||
| * 1973 - ], Co-founder of ] | |||
| *] - ], American actress | |||
| *] - ], Australian cricketer | |||
| *] - ], American ice hockey player | |||
| * 1976 - ], Jamaican American soccer player | |||
| *] - ], American football player | |||
| * 1978 - ], American baseball player | |||
| * 1978 - ], Irish footballer | |||
| * 1978 - ], American baseball player | |||
| * 1978 - ], English rugby union player | |||
| *] - ], American singer | |||
| *] - ], American race car driver | |||
| *] - ], Greek basketball player | |||
| *] - ], (Colin Harper) Reggae & Dancehall artist | |||
| *] - ], American professional ] rider | |||
| * 1983 - ], British TV personality | |||
| * 1983 - ], Australian footballer | |||
| *] - ], South African cricketer | |||
| * 1984 - ], French singer | |||
| * 1984 - ], American actress | |||
| * 1984 - ], American baseball player | |||
| *] - ], one of the member of Korean boy band Super junior. actor and singer | |||
| *] - ], English singer-songwriter | |||
| * 1988 - ], American singer and finalist on ] | |||
| *] - ], American actress, model and singer | |||
| *] - ], American singer and actress | |||
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August 21 is the 233rd day of the year (234th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar; 132 days remain until the end of the year.
Events
- 1192 - Minamoto Yoritomo becomes Seii Tai Shōgun and the de facto ruler of Japan. (Traditional Japanese date: July 12, 1192)
- 1680 - Pueblo Indians capture Santa Fe from Spanish during the Pueblo Revolt.
- 1689 - The Battle of Dunkeld in Scotland.
- 1760 - The church (later cathedral) of "Our Lady of Candlemas of Mayagüez (Puerto Rico)" is founded, establishing the basis for the founding of the city.
- 1770 - James Cook formally claims eastern Australia for Great Britain, naming it New South Wales.
- 1772 - King Gustav III completes his coup d'etat by adopting a new Constitution, ending half a century of parliamentary rule in Sweden and installing him as an enlightened despot.
- 1810 - Jean-Baptiste Bernadotte, Marshal of France, is elected Crown Prince of Sweden by the Swedish Riksdag of the Estates.
- 1821 - Jarvis Island is discovered by the crew of the Eliza Frances.
- 1831 - Nat Turner leads black slaves and free blacks in a rebellion.
- 1842 - The city of Hobart, Tasmania, is founded.
- 1852 - Tlingit Indians destroy Fort Selkirk, Yukon Territory.
- 1856 - America's first consul to Japan, Townsend Harris, arrives in Shimoda. (Traditional Japanese date: July 21, 1856)
- 1858 - The Lincoln-Douglas debates begin.
- 1862 - The Vienna Stadtpark opens its gates.
- 1863 - Lawrence, Kansas is destroyed by Confederate guerillas Quantrill's Raiders in the Lawrence Massacre.
- 1878 - The American Bar Association is founded.
- 1879 - The Virgin Mary, along with St. Joseph and St. John the Evangelist reportedly appear to the people of Knock, County Mayo, Ireland.
- 1888 - The first successful adding machine in the United States is patented by William Seward Burroughs.
- 1911 - The Mona Lisa is stolen by a Louvre employee.
- 1942 - World War II: The Battle of Stalingrad began.
- 1942 - World War II: A Nazi flag is installed atop the Mount Elbrus.
- 1942 - World War II: Allied forces involved in the Guadalcanal campaign defeated an attack by Imperial Japanese Army soldiers in the Battle of the Tenaru.
- 1944 - Dumbarton Oaks Conference, prelude to the United Nations, begins.
- 1959 - President Dwight D. Eisenhower signs an executive order proclaiming Hawaii the 50th state of the union.
- 1963 - Xa Loi Pagoda raids: The Army of the Republic of Vietnam Special Forces loyal to Ngo Dinh Nhu, brother of President Ngo Dinh Diem, vandalises Buddhist pagodas across the country, arresting thousands and leaving an estimated hundreds dead.
- 1968 - Soviet Union-dominated Warsaw Pact troops invade Czechoslovakia, crushing the Prague Spring; on the same day, Nicolae Ceauşescu, leader of Communist Romania, publicly condemns the Soviet maneuver, 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.
- 1969 - An Australian, Michael Dennis Rohan, sets the Al-Aqsa Mosque on fire
- 1971 - A bomb exploded in the Liberal Party campaign rally in Plaza Miranda, Manila, Philippines with several anti-Marcos political candidates injured.
- 1976 - Operation Paul Bunyan at Panmunjeom, Korea.
- 1983 - Philippine opposition leader Benigno Aquino, Jr. was assassinated at the Manila International Airport (now renamed Ninoy Aquino International Airport).
- 1986 - Carbon dioxide gas erupts from volcanic Lake Nyos in Cameroon, killing up to 1,800 people within a 20-kilometer range.
- 1991 - Latvia declares renewal of its full independence after the occupation of Soviet Union.
- 1991 - Coup attempt against Mikhail Gorbachev collapses.
- 1993 - NASA loses contact with the Mars Observer spacecraft.
- 2001 - NATO decides to send a peace-keeping force to the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia.
- 2001 - The Red Cross announces that a famine is striking Tajikistan, and calls for international financial aid for Tajikistan and Uzbekistan.
- 2007 - Hurricane Dean makes its first landfall in Costa Maya, Mexico with winds at 165 mph. Dean is the first storm since Hurricane Andrew to make landfall as a Category 5.
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Deaths
- 1157 - King Alfonso VII of Castile (b. 1104/1105)
- 1153 - Bernard of Clairvaux, French theologian (b. 1090)
- 1271 - Alphonse of Toulouse, son of Louis VIII of France (b. 1220)
- 1581 - Sakuma Nobumori, Japanese retainer and samurai (b. 1527)
- 1614 - Elizabeth Báthory, the world's most prolific female serial killer (b. 1560)
- 1627 - Jacques Mauduit, French composer (b. 1557)
- 1673 - Henry Grey, 1st Earl of Stamford, English soldier
- 1689 - William Cleland, Scottish poet and soldier
- 1762 - Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, English writer (b. 1689)
- 1763 - Charles Wyndham, 2nd Earl of Egremont, British statesman (b. 1710)
- 1796 - John McKinly, American physician and President of Delaware (b. 1721)
- 1814 - Benjamin Thompson, American physicist and inventor (b. 1753)
- 1836 - Claude-Louis Navier, French physicist (b. 1785)
- 1838 - Adelbert von Chamisso, German writer (b. 1781)
- 1935 - John Hartley, English tennis player, double winner of Wimbledon (b. 1849)
- 1940 - Leon Trotsky, Russian revolutionary (b. 1879)
- 1940 - Ernest Lawrence Thayer, American poet (b. 1863)
- 1940 - Hermann Obrecht, member of the Swiss Federal Council (b. 1882)
- 1943 - Henrik Pontoppidan, Danish writer, Nobel Prize (b. 1857)
- 1947 - Ettore Bugatti, Italian automobile manufacturer (b. 1881)
- 1951 - Constant Lambert, British composer and conductor (b. 1905)
- 1957 - Harald Ulrik Sverdrup, Norwegian meteorologist and oceanographer (b. 1888)
- 1957 - Nels Stewart, professional ice hockey player (b. 1902)
- 1960 - David Barnard Steinman, American civil engineer and bridge designer (b. 1886)
- 1964 - Palmiro Togliatti, Italian communist leader (b. 1893)
- 1978 - Charles Eames, American designer and architect (b. 1907)
- 1979 - Giuseppe Meazza, Italian footballer (b. 1910)
- 1981 - Michael Devine, the last man to die in the 1981 Irish hunger strike (b. 1954)
- 1982 - Sobhuza II, King of Swaziland (b. 1899)
- 1983 - Benigno Aquino, Jr., Philippine opposition leader (b. 1932)
- 1988 - Ray Eames, American designer, artist and architect (b. 1912)
- 1989 - Raul Seixas, Brazilian singer (b. 1945)
- 1995 - Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, Indian-born astrophysicist, Nobel laureate (b. 1910)
- 1997 - Yuri Nikulin, Russian clown and actor (b. 1921)
- 2000 - Daniel Lisulo, Prime Minister of Zambia (b. 1930)
- 2001 - Calum MacKay, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1927)
- 2003 - Kathy Wilkes, English philosopher and aid worker (b. 1946)
- 2003 - Wesley Willis, American musician (b. 1963)
- 2005 - Marcus Schmuck, Austrian mountaineer (b. 1925)
- 2005 - Robert Moog, American pioneer of electronic music (b. 1934)
- 2005 - Dahlia Ravikovitch, Israeli poet (b. 1936)
- 2005 - Martin Dillon, tenor, American opera singer (b. 1957)
- 2006 - Paul Fentener van Vlissingen, Dutch businessman and philantropher (b. 1941)
- 2006 - Ustad Bismillah Khan, Indian musician (b. 1916)
- 2007 - Siobhan Dowd, British/Irish writer (b. 1960)
- 2007 - Elizabeth P. Hoisington, American Brigadier General (b. 1918)
- 2007 - Haley Paige, American pornographic actress (b. 1981)
Holidays and observances
- Ninoy Aquino Day - special holiday in the Philippines.
- Roman festivals - Consualia, in honor of Consus, is held.
- Roman Catholic saints - Pope Pius X.
- Orthodox - Thaddaeus, Abraham of Smolensk.
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