August 21

August 21 is the 233rd day of the year (234th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar. There are 132 days remaining.

Events

• 1680 - Pueblo Indians captured Santa Fe from Spanish
• 1831 - Nat Turner leads slave revolt in Southampton County, Virginia
• 1852 - Tlingit Indians destroy Fort Selkirk[?], Yukon Territory
• 1858 - Lincoln-Douglas[?] debates begin
• 1959 - Hawaii is admitted as the 50th U.S. state.
• 1863 - Lawrence, Kansas destroyed by William Quantrill[?], Jesse and Frank James, the Younger Brothers[?], et. al.
• 1911 - The Mona Lisa is stolen from the Louvre
• 1944 - Dumbarton Oaks Conference, prelude to the United Nations
• 1986 - Toxic gas erupts from volcanic Lake Nyos[?] in Cameroon, killing over 1700 people
• 1991 - Coup attempt against Mikhail Gorbachev collapses
• 1998 - The United States destroys a pharmaceutical plant (erroneously believed to be a chemical weapons plant) in Sudan
• 2001 - NATO decides to send a peace-keeping force to the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia
• 2001 - A sixth-century temple is discovered in central Mexico
• 2001 - The Red Cross announces that a famine is striking Tajikistan, and calls for international financial aid for Tajikistan and Uzbekistan

Births

• 1165 - Philip II of France
• 1765 - William IV of the United Kingdom (+ 1837)
• 1811 - William Kelly[?], iron manufacturer, inventor (+ 1888)
• 1872 - Aubrey Beardsley, illustrator (+ 1898)
• 1904 - Count Basie (William Allen Basie), bandleader (+ 1984)
• 1906 - Fritz Freleng[?], movie animator
• 1920 - Christopher Robin Milne[?], propotype of the Christopher Robin in the Winnie the Pooh stories
• 1923 - Shimon Peres, Prime Minister of Israel
• 1924 - Jack Weston[?], actor (+ 1996)
• 1924 - Chris Scheknel[?], sports journalist
• 1928 - Art Farmer[?], trumpet player
• 1930 - Princess Margaret of the United Kingdom (+ 2002)
• 1932 - Melvin Van Peebles[?], actor, screenwriter
• 1936 - Wilt Chamberlain, Basketball Hall of Famer (+ 1999)
• 1938 - Kenny Rogers[?], singer, actor
• 1939 - Clarence Williams III[?], actor
• 1944 - Jackie DeShannon[?], singer
• 1956 - Kim Cattrall[?], actress
• 1959 - Jim McMahon, National Football League quarterback
• 1963 - Mohammed VI of Morocco
• 1967 - Carrie-Anne Moss, actress
• 1969 - Joseé Chouinard[?], Canadian figure skater

Deaths

• 1153 - Bernard of Clairvaux, Christian theologian
• 1614 - Elizabeth Bathory, serial killer
• 1940 - Leon Trotsky, Russian revolutionary
• 1940 - Ernest Lawrence Thayer[?], poet
• 1947 - Ettore Bugatti, automobile manufacturer
• 1978 - Charles Eames, American designer and architect
• 1983 - Benigno S. Aquino Jr.[?], Philippine opposition leader
• 1988 - Ray Eames, American designer
• 1997 - Norris Bradbury[?], physicist

Holidays and observances

• Roman Empire - Consualia[?], in honor of Consus, is held

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