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Day of the year
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 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 himself 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 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 fire1971 - 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.
Births
1165 - King Philip II of France (d. 1223 )1535 - Shimazu Yoshihiro , Japanese samurai and warlord (d. 1619 )1567 - Francis de Sales , Bishop of Geneva and saint (d. 1622 )1597 - Roger Twysden , English antiquarian and royalist (d. 1672 )1643 - King Afonso VI of Portugal (d. 1683 )1660 - Hubert Gautier , French scientist and civil engineer (d. 1737 )1665 - Giacomo F. Maraldi , French-Italian astronomer (d. 1729 )1670 - James FitzJames, 1st Duke of Berwick , French military leader (d. 1734 )1725 - Jean-Baptiste Greuze , French painter (d. 1805 )1754 - William Murdoch , Scottish inventor (d. 1839 )1754 - Banastre Tarleton , British soldier and politician (d. 1833 )
1765 - William IV of the United Kingdom (d. 1837 )1789 - Augustin Louis Cauchy , French mathematician (d. 1857 )1798 - Jules Michelet , French historian (d. 1874 )1800 - Hiram Walden , American politician (d. 1880 )1801 - Guillaume Groen van Prinsterer , Dutch politician (d. 1876 )1813 - Jean Stas , Belgian chemist (d. 1891 )1816 - Charles Frédéric Gerhardt , French chemist (d. 1856 )1826 - Karl Gegenbaur , German anatomist (d. 1903 )1872 - Aubrey Beardsley , English illustrator (d. 1898 )1891 - Emiliano Mercado del Toro , World's oldest living man 2004-2007 (d. 2007 )1892 - Charles Vanel , French actor and director (d. 1989 )1904 - William "Count" Basie , American bandleader (d. 1984 )1906 - Friz Freleng , American movie animator (d. 1995 )1908 - M. M. Kaye , British writer (d. 2004 )1909 - Nikolay Bogolyubov , Russian mathematician (d. 1992 )1912 - Toe Blake , Canadian ice hockey player and coach (d. 1995 )1915 - Raquel Rastenni , Danish singer (d. 1998 )1918 - Billy Reay , Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2004 )1920 - Christopher Robin Milne , inspiration for the Winnie-the-Pooh stories (d. 1996 )1924 - Jack Buck , American sports announcer (d. 2002 )1924 - Chris Schenkel , American sports journalist (d. 2005 )
1924 - Jack Weston , American actor (d. 1996 )
1925 - Maurice Pialat , French actor and director (d. 2003 )1925 - Jorge Rafael Videla , ex-dictator of Argentina
1927 - Thomas S. Monson , 16th president of the (Mormon) Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints1928 - Art Farmer , American trumpet player (d. 1999 )1929 - X. J. Kennedy , American poet1929 - Marie Severin , American comic book artist and colorist
1930 - Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon (d. 2002 )1930 - Frank Perry , American film director (d. 1995 )
1932 - Melvin Van Peebles , American actor and screenwriter1933 - Janet Baker , English mezzo-soprano1934 - Paul Panhuysen , Dutch composer, visual and sound artist1936 - Wilt Chamberlain , American basketball player (d. 1999 )1936 - Radish Tordia , Painter Of Figurative Art From Georgia
1937 - Robert Stone , American novelist1938 - Kenny Rogers , American singer and actor1939 - James Burton , American guitarist1939 - Clarence Williams III , American actor
1939 - Festus Mogae , president of Botswana
1943 - Hugh Wilson , American director, writer and actor1944 - Jackie DeShannon , American singer1944 - Peter Weir , Australian film director
1944 - Perry Christie , former prime minister of the Bahamas
1945 - Jerry DaVanon , baseball player1945 - Basil Poledouris , American film score composer (d. 2006 )
1949 - Loretta Devine , American actress1950 - Patrick Juvet , Swiss singer1951 - Eric Goles , Chilean mathematician and computer scientist1951 - Char Margolis , American medium
1951 - Harry Smith , American television journalist
1951 - Margo Kane , Canadian playwright.
1952 - Joe Strummer , British musician and singer (The Clash ) (d. 2002 )1952 - Glenn Hughes , British bassist and vocalist (Finders Keepers /Trapeze /Deep Purple )
1954 - Archie Griffin , former American football player and only two-time Heisman Trophy winner.1954 - Ivan Stang , American writer
1956 - Kim Cattrall , English-born actress1959 - Jim McMahon , American football player1961 - David Morales , American disc jockey1961 - Stephen Hillenburg , American animator and cartoonist
1962 - Jeff Stryker , American actor1963 - King Mohammed VI of Morocco 1963 - Richmond Arquette , American actor
1964 - Trinity Loren , American actress and model (d. 1998 )1965 - Jim Bullinger , American baseball player1966 - John Wetteland , Major League Baseball player1967 - Carrie-Anne Moss , Canadian actress1967 - Serj Tankian , Armenian-born singer (System of a Down )
1967 - Darren Bewick , AFL footballer
1969 - Josée Chouinard , Canadian figure skater1970 - Nathan Jones , American professional wrestler1970 - Erik Dekker , Dutch cyclist
1971 - Liam Howlett , British musician (The Prodigy )1971 - Matthew Noonan , American Concert Organist
1971 - Robert Harvey , Australian Rules Footballer (St Kilda Football Club )
1973 - Steve McKenna , Canadian ice hockey player1973 - Sergey Brin , Co-founder of Google
1975 - Alicia Witt , American actress1975 - Simon Katich , Australian cricketer
1976 - Alex Brooks , American ice hockey player1976 - Jeff Cunningham , Jamaican American soccer player
1978 - Reuben Droughns , American football player1978 - Jason Marquis , American baseball player
1978 - Alan Lee , Irish footballer
1978 - Lee Gronkiewicz , American baseball player
1978 - Peter Buxton , English rugby union player
1979 - Kelis Rogers-Jones , American singer1980 - Burney Lamar , American race car driver1980 - Paul Menard , NASCAR Sprint Cup Series Driver
1981 - Andreas Glyniadakis , Greek basketball player1981 - Collie Buddz , (Colin Harper) Reggae & Dancehall artist1983 - Josh Harrington , American professional BMX rider1983 - Chantelle Houghton , British TV personality
1983 - Brody Jenner , American actor
1983 - Scott McDonald , Australian footballer
1984 - Neil Dexter , South African cricketer1984 - Alizée Jacotey , French singer
1984 - Melissa Schuman , American actress
1984 - B.J. Upton , American baseball player
1986 - Usain Bolt , Jamaican sprinter1987 - Kim Kibum , one of the member of Korean boy band Super junior. actor and singer1988 - Louise Setara , English singer-songwriter1988 - Paris Bennett , American singer and finalist on American Idol (season 5)
1989 - Hayden Panettiere , American actress, model and singer1993 - Mohammed Yahya Al-wazir , born in Moscow, Yemenian Ginius1996 - Jamia Simone Nash , American singer and actress
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 soldier1689 - William Cleland , Scottish poet and soldier1762 - 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 )1870 - Ma Xinyi Viceroy of Liangjiang of the late Qing Dynasty in China,(b. 1821 )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 )1971 - George Jackson , American prisoner, Soledad Brother , Black Panther (b. 1941 )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 )1992 - Dai Vernon , Canadian magician (b. 1894 )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 philanthropist (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 )
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