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What happened on August 21
- August 21, 1192 "Minamoto Yoritomo becomes Seii Tai Shgun and the de facto ruler of Japan. (Traditional Japanese date: July 12, 1192)"
- August 21, 1560 Tycho Brahe becomes interested in astronomy
- August 21, 1583 "The Delight, with 85 persons aboard, founders on the banks of Sable Island; first Canadian shipwreck on record."
- August 21, 1680 Pueblo Indians capture Santa Fe from Spanish during the Pueblo Revolt.
- August 21, 1680 Pueblo Indians took possession of Santa F? from Spanish
- August 21, 1760 "The church (later cathedral) of ""Our Lady of Candlemas of Mayagez (Puerto Rico)"" is founded, establishing the basis for the founding of the city."
- August 21, 1770 "James Cook formally claims eastern Australia for Great Britain, naming it New South Wales."
- August 21, 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."
- August 21, 1796 "Mississauga Chief Wabakinine, protecting his sister from a British soldier, is struck on the head with a rock and killed; his wife is also seriously injured."
- August 21, 1810 "Jean-Baptiste Bernadotte, Marshal of France, is elected Crown Prince of Sweden by the Swedish Riksdag of the Estates."
- August 21, 1816 Quebec has an early season snowfall. WOW that is early even for us Canadians!!
- August 21, 1821 Jarvis Island is discovered by the crew of the Eliza Frances.
- August 21, 1831 Nat Turner leads black slaves and free blacks in a rebellion.
- August 21, 1831 "Nat Turner slave revolt kills 55 (Southampton County, Virginia)"
- August 21, 1841 John Hampson patents venetian blind
- August 21, 1841 The Venetian blind is first patented in the United States by John Hampson.
- August 21, 1842 "The city of Hobart, Tasmania, is founded."
- August 21, 1852 "Tlingit Indians destroy Fort Selkirk, Yukon Territory."
- August 21, 1852 "Tlingit warriors destroy Hudson's Bay Company Fort Selkirk, Yukon after the HBC tries to break the Tlingit monopoly on trade with interior tribes."
- August 21, 1856 "America's first consul to Japan, Townsend Harris, arrives in Shimoda. (Traditional Japanese date: July 21, 1856)"
- August 21, 1857 "First book published by an Australian female author: Gertrude the Emigrant, by Caroline Atkinson."
- August 21, 1857 "In one of Australia's worst maritime disasters, 121 people drown when the Dunbar sinks off Sydney Heads;"
- August 21, 1858 First Lincoln-Douglas debate (Illinois)
- August 21, 1858 The Lincoln-Douglas debates begin.
- August 21, 1862 "Billy Barker discovers gold in creeks running into the Quesnel River; town of Barkerville, BC, grows up around mine; the find sparks a massive gold rush into the Cariboo."
- August 21, 1862 The Vienna Stadtpark opens its gates.
- August 21, 1863 "Lawrence, Kansas is destroyed by Confederate guerillas Quantrill's Raiders in the Lawrence Massacre."
- August 21, 1878 "American Bar Association organizes at Sarasota, NY"
- August 21, 1878 The American Bar Association is founded.
- August 21, 1879 "The Virgin Mary, along with St. Joseph and St. John the Evangelist reportedly appear to the people of Knock, County Mayo, Ireland."
- August 21, 1911 The Mona Lisa is stolen by a Louvre employee.
- August 21, 1912 Mr Carter-Cotton chosen first chancellor of Univ of British Columbia
- August 21, 1917 "Company Sgt. Major Robert Hanna (29th Cdn. Infantry Batt.) wins the Victoria Cross at Hill 70, France"
- August 21, 1917 "Cpl. Fliip Konowal (47th Cdn. Infantry Batt.) wins the Victoria Cross at Hill 70, France"
- August 21, 1942 World War II: A Nazi flag is installed atop the Mount Elbrus.
- August 21, 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.
- August 21, 1942 World War II: The Battle of Stalingrad began.
- August 21, 1944 "Dumbarton Oaks conference opens in Washington, DC; establishes UN"
- August 21, 1944 "Dumbarton Oaks Conference, prelude to the United Nations, begins."
- August 21, 1944 HMCS Alberni lost
- August 21, 1945 Pres Truman ends Lend-Lease program
- August 21, 1953 "Marion Carl in Douglas Skyrocket reaches record 25,370 m"
- August 21, 1959 Hawaii becomes the 50th state of the United States
- August 21, 1961 Australian TV current affairs program Four Corners makes TV debut.
- August 21, 1963 Martial law declared in S Vietnam
- August 21, 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."
- August 21, 1964 Canadian Bette Singer dives a record-setting 307 feet into Bahaman waters.
- August 21, 1965 Gemini 5 launched into Earth orbit (2 astronauts)
- August 21, 1968 After 5 years Russia once again jams Voice of America radio
- August 21, 1968 Democratic Convention opens in Chicago
- August 21, 1968 "James Anderson, Jr. posthumously receives the first Medal of Honor to be awarded to an African American U.S. Marine."
- August 21, 1968 Radio Prague (Czech) at 12:50 AM announces a soviet led invasion. Warsaw Pact forces enter Czechoslovakia to end reform movement
- August 21, 1968 "Soviet Union-dominated Warsaw Pact troops invade Czechoslovakia, crushing the Prague Spring; on the same day, Nicolae Ceauescu, leader of Communist Romania, publicly condemns the Soviet maneuver, encouraging the Romanian population to arm itself against possible Soviet reprisals."
- August 21, 1968 William Dana reaches 80 km (last high-altitude X-15 flight)
- August 21, 1969 "An Australian, Michael Dennis Rohan, sets the Al-Aqsa Mosque on fire"
- August 21, 1971 "A bomb exploded in the Liberal Party campaign rally in Plaza Miranda, Manila, Philippines with several anti-Marcos political candidates injured."
- August 21, 1971 Number one hit on UK music charts - Diana Ross - I'm Still Waiting
- August 21, 1972 First hot air balloon flight over the Alps
- August 21, 1972 Republican convention opens in Miami Beach
- August 21, 1972 US orbiting astronomy observatory Copernicus launched
- August 21, 1975 "3 truck pile up kills 10, injures 26 on French highway"
- August 21, 1976 "Operation Paul Bunyan at Panmunjeom, Korea."
- August 21, 1981 Ottawa Roughrider Tony Gabriel catches a pass in his 128th consecutive game; sets world pro football record; record eclipsed in 1987 by the Steve Largent of the NFL.
- August 21, 1983 "Philippine opposition leader Benigno Aquino, Jr. was assassinated at the Manila International Airport (now renamed Ninoy Aquino International Airport)."
- August 21, 1984 Australia's federal budget speech is televised live from Canberra for the first time
- August 21, 1985 "Near Coast of Northern Peru a 6.3 quake injured at least 100 people, 60 homes destroyed and damage to other buildings in the Chimbote area"
- August 21, 1985 Premier Neville Wran ratifies legislation in NSW to make AIDS a notifiable disease.
- August 21, 1986 "Carbon dioxide gas erupts from volcanic Lake Nyos in Cameroon, killing up to 1,800 people within a 20-kilometer range."
- August 21, 1986 "Lake Nios Volcanic eruption in Cameroon releases poison gas, killing 1,746"
- August 21, 1987 "Clayton Lonetree, first marine court-martialed for spying, convicted"
- August 21, 1988 Cease fire between Iran and Iraq takes effect after 8 years of war
- August 21, 1989 "Fifty-one people drown in the River Thames, London when a dredger rams the pleasure cruiser Marchioness."
- August 21, 1989 "Soviet Union reveals deadliest weapon in its air force arsenal, needle-nosed bomber that NATO calls the Blackjack"
- August 21, 1989 Voyager 2 begins a flyby of the planet Neptune
- August 21, 1990 "Gang of convicts from Siberian labour camp overpower guards aboard Aeroflot passenger flight, hijack plane to Pakistan and seek political asylum"
- August 21, 1991 Communist coup is crushed in USSR in 2 days
- August 21, 1991 Coup attempt against Mikhail Gorbachev collapses.
- August 21, 1991 Latvia declares renewal of its full independence after the occupation of Soviet Union.
- August 21, 1993 NASA loses contact with the Mars Observer spacecraft.
- August 21, 1995 NSW Police Royal Commission key witness Trevor Haken accuses 35 high ranking officers and others of corruption.
- August 21, 1997 British rock band Oasis release their 3rd album Be Here Now - the fastest selling album of all time in the UK.
- August 21, 1997 "Death of Norris Bradbury, American physicist who led the team charged with assembling the components for the world's first atomic bomb explosion."
- August 21, 2000 British troops are rushed on to Belfast streets after two men are killed in a violent feud between Protestant guerrilla groups.
- August 21, 2001 NATO decides to send a peace-keeping force to the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia.
- August 21, 2001 "The Red Cross announces that a famine is striking Tajikistan, and calls for international financial aid for Tajikistan and Uzbekistan."
- August 21, 2007 A barge overturned and dumped a loaded diesel truck into the water near an ecological reserve off northern Vancouver Island on Monday morning.
- August 21, 2007 Hurricane Dan first of the season hits Mexaco's Yucatan peninsula just south of tourist area
- August 21, 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."
- August 21, 2007 "Over the 78 years this semi has been home to the Taylor and Hatchett families, it has changed little, With the decor and period features barely touched since the late 1920s, stepping inside is like stepping back in time. The original buyers, Tom and Milly Taylor, paid �095 for the Tudor-style property in Hove, West Sussex, in 1929. It is now valued at �5,000 - around 400 times more."
- August 21, 2007 "Russian bear provokes a Cold War in the sky with largest airshow in post-Soviet history, bombers approached British airspace at the weekend - and defence chiefs scrambled supersonic Eurofighter Typhoon jets to counteract the potential threat."
- August 21, 2007 "Space shuttle Endeavour returned to Earth safely Tuesday, ending a nearly two-week orbital drama that centred on a deep gouge in the shuttle's belly and an early homecoming prompted by a hurricane."
- August 21, 2007 "The leaders of Canada, the United States and Mexico emerged from their two-day meeting in Montebello, Que. Tuesday to discount the fears of critics who suggest the summit will diminish sovereignty and blur borders."
- August 21, 2009 "20 people are killed and 40 injured after clashes between pro-government and Islamist forces in Mogadishu, Somalia."
- August 21, 2009 "A 34-year-old Tunisian woman from Gafsa, thought to have been pregnant with 12 babies and whose story had attracted international attention, is determined to have been the victim of a phantom pregnancy."
- August 21, 2009 "A missile fired from a U.S. unmanned plane destroyed a suspected militant hide-out in northwest Pakistan on Friday, killing at least 12 people in a stronghold of a jihadi leader blamed for attacks in Afghanistan."
- August 21, 2009 A North Korean delegation arrives in South Korea to mourn the death of former South Korean President Kim Dae-jung.
- August 21, 2009 "A rockfall on a beach in the Algarve, Portugal, kills 5 holidaymakers and injures several others."
- August 21, 2009 Argentina's association football championship kicks off after President Cristina Fern爊dez de Kirchner puts it on the state payroll to avoid a financial crisis.
- August 21, 2009 "Brazil becomes Chile's third largest trading partner, displacing Japan, according to recently released government trade figures."
- August 21, 2009 "Four policemen are killed after 4 suicide bombs on bicycles detonate in Grozny, Chechnya."
- August 21, 2009 "Important Islamic date - Ramadan: August 21 - September 19, 2009"
- August 21, 2009 "L爏zl� Syom, President of Hungary was declared unwelcome by Slovakia and was not allowed to step on Slovak soil to attend an unveiling of a statue depicting King Saint Stephen, first King of Hungary."
- August 21, 2009 "Mexico decriminalises the use of small amounts of marijuana, cocaine, heroin and other drugs for ""personal use""."
- August 21, 2009 South African President Jacob Zuma makes a pilgrimage to a former anti-apartheid guerrilla camp in Angola where he lays a wreath and pays tribute to fallen comrades.
- August 21, 2009 "The presidents or heads of state of five nations, including Seretse Ian Khama of Botswana and Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe, along with ministers and musical troupes gather at the cricket stadium in Oranjemund, Namibia, for a welcoming ceremony at the conclusion of explorer Kingsley Holgate's latest expedition, which took him through nine countries."
- August 21, 2009 U.S. President Barack Obama condemns Lockerbie bomber Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed Al Megrahi's homecoming in Libya
- August 21, 2009 "William Calley, the former US army officer found guilty of organizing mass killings in the Vietnamese community of My Lai during the Vietnam War makes a public apology."
- August 21, 2017 Next total solar eclipse visible from North America
- August 21, 2017 The next total solar eclipse visible from Canada will happen on this day.
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