August 21
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August 21 is the 233rd day of the year (234th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar. There are 132 days remaining.
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Events
- 1680 - Pueblo Indians capture Santa Fe from Spanish during the Pueblo Revolt
- 1770 - James Cook formally claims eastern Australia for Great Britain, naming it New South Wales.
- 1772 - The coup d'etat by King Gustav III is completed by adopting a new Constitution, ending half a century of parliamentary rule in Sweden and creating him an enlightened despot.
- 1831 - Nat Turner leads slave revolt in Southampton County, Virginia
- 1841 - The venetian blind is first patented in the United States by John Hampson.
- 1842 - The city of Hobart, Tasmania, is founded.
- 1852 - Tlingit Indians destroy Fort Selkirk, Yukon Territory
- 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.
- 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 was patented by William Seward Burroughs.
- 1944 - Dumbarton Oaks Conference, prelude to the United Nations, begins.
- 1959 - Hawaii is admitted as the 50th U.S. state.
- 1968 - Soviet Union-dominated Warsaw Pact troops invade Czechoslovakia.
- 1971 - Black Panther George Jackson is shot and killed in the prison yard at California's San Quentin prison.
- 1976 - Operation Paul Bunyan at Panmunjeom, Korea
- 1986 - Toxic gas erupts from volcanic Lake Nyos in Cameroon, killing over 1700 people.
- 1987 - Hard rock band Guns 'N Roses release their classic debut Appetite for Destruction.
- 1991 - Latvia declares its full independence from the Soviet Union.
- 1991 - Coup attempt against Mikhail Gorbachev collapses.
- 1993 - The United States lost contact with the Mars Observer spacecraft.
- 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.
- 2002 - Jean Chrétien, Prime Minister of Canada, announces that he will not seek re-election and would resign within eighteen months.
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Births
- 1165 - King Philip II of France (d. 1223)
- 1535 - Shimazu Yoshihiro, Japanese samurai and warlord (d. 1619)
- 1660 - Hubert Gautier, French scientist and civil engineer (d. 1737)
- 1754 - William Murdoch, Scottish inventor (d. 1839)
- 1765 - William IV of the United Kingdom (d. 1837)
- 1789 - Augustin Louis Cauchy, French mathematician (d. 1857)
- 1811 - William Kelly, iron manufacturer, inventor (d. 1888)
- 1813 - Jean Stas, Belgian chemist (d. 1891)
- 1816 - Charles_Frédéric_Gerhardt, French chemist (d. 1856)
- 1826 - Karl Gegenbaur, German anatomist who demonstrated evidence of evolutionary theory (d. 1903)
- 1872 - Aubrey Beardsley, illustrator (d. 1898)
- 1904 - William "Count" Basie, bandleader (d. 1984)
- 1906 - Friz Freleng, movie animator (d. 1995)
- 1920 - Christopher Robin Milne, inspiration for the Christopher Robin character in the Winnie the Pooh stories (d. 1996)
- 1923 - Shimon Peres, Prime Minister of Israel
- 1924 - Chris Schenkel, sports journalist
- 1924 - Jack Weston, actor (d. 1996)
- 1928 - Art Farmer, trumpet player (d. 1999)
- 1930 - Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon (d. 2002)
- 1932 - Melvin Van Peebles, actor, screenwriter
- 1933 - Janet Baker, English mezzo-soprano
- 1936 - Wilt Chamberlain, Basketball Hall of Famer (d. 1999)
- 1938 - Kenny Rogers, singer, actor
- 1939 - Clarence Williams III, actor
- 1939 - James Burton, rock guitarist
- 1944 - Jackie DeShannon, singer
- 1944 - Peter Weir, film director
- 1952 - Joe Strummer, British musician, guitarist/vocalist with The Clash (d. December 22, 2002)
- 1954 - Ivan Stang, founder of the Church of the SubGenius
- 1956 - Kim Cattrall, actress
- 1959 - Jim McMahon, National Football League quarterback
- 1963 - Mohammed VI of Morocco
- 1967 - Carrie-Anne Moss, actress
- 1967 - Serj Tankian, singer for System of a Down
- 1969 - Josée Chouinard, Canadian figure skater
- 1978 - Reuben Droughns, American football player
- 1978 - Jason Marquis, Major League Baseball pitcher
- 1984 - Alizée, singer
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Deaths
- 1157 - King Alfonso VII of Castile (b. 1104/5)
- 1153 - Bernard of Clairvaux, Christian theologian
- 1581 - Sakuma Nobumori, Japanese retainer and samurai (b. 1527)
- 1614 - Elizabeth Báthory, serial killer
- 1814 - Benjamin Thompson, American-born British physicist and inventor (b. 1753)
- 1838 - Adelbert von Chamisso, German writer (b. 1781)
- 1940 - Leon Trotsky, Russian revolutionary
- 1940 - Ernest Lawrence Thayer, poet
- 1947 - Ettore Bugatti, automobile manufacturer
- 1951 - Constant Lambert, composer
- 1957 - Harald Ulrik Sverdrup, Norwegian meteorologist and oceanographer (b. 1888)
- 1960 - David Barnard Steinman, American civil engineer and bridge designer (b. 1886)
- 1978 - Charles Eames, American designer and architect
- 1983 - Benigno S. Aquino Jr., Philippine opposition leader
- 1988 - Ray Eames, American designer
- 1995 - Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, Nobel Laureate astrophysicist (b. 1910)
- 1997 - Norris Bradbury, physicist
- 2003 - Kathy Wilkes, Oxford philosopher and education worker in Eastern Europe
- 2003 - Wesley Willis, musician
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Holidays and observances
- Roman Empire - Consualia, in honor of Consus, is held
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External links
- BBC: On This Day (http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/august/21)
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