August 21

Learn the most interesting events and historical facts that happened throughout history on August 21. From 1900 until now. August 21 is under the sign of Leo. Famous birthdays on this day include Alizée (singer) (1984), Usain Bolt (1986) and Hayden Panettiere (1989). Several movies were released around August 21 over the years, such as Pather Panchali in 1955 directed by Satyajit Ray and Rashomon in 1950 directed by Akira Kurosawa.
But much more happened on August 21 over the years: find out below

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Holidays

Ninoy Aquino Day - special holiday in the Philippines.
Orthodox - Thaddaeus
RC saints - Pope Pius X
Roman festivals - Consualia, in honor of Consus, is held

Events

2018 War in Afghanistan: Mortars are fired at the diplomatic quarter of Kabul during a speech by President Ashraf Ghani. After several hours of fighting, including a helicopter attack on a building behind the Id Gah Mosque, police say the attackers are dead and four people are wounded. (BBC)
2017 Aftermath of the 2017 Barcelona attacks: Spanish police hunting the chief suspect in last Thursday's van attack in Barcelona shoot dead a man to the west of the city who appeared to be wearing an explosive belt. (BBC)
2016 Somali Civil War (2009–present): An al-Shabaab suicide car bomb kills at least 20 people in the town of Galkayo in Somalia's semi-autonomous Puntland region. (Reuters)
2015 Destruction of cultural heritage by ISIL: The Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant destroys the historic Mar Elian monastery near the town of Al-Qaryatayn in the Homs Governorate in Syria. (AP)
2014 2014 Israel–Gaza conflict: Israeli airstrikes kill three senior military commanders of Hamas. (AP)A senior Hamas official speaking in Turkey praises the Al-Qassam Brigades for the abduction and murder of three Israeli teenagers. In response an Israeli NGO calls on the United States Attorney General to force Turkey to extradite the official as one of the teenagers was an American citizen. (Israel National News)
2013 Syrian civil war:: Syrian activists claim that chemical weapon attacks have killed over 600 people in the outskirts of Damascus. (The Guardian) (Today's Zaman)
2012 Syrian civil war:
2011 2011 Libyan civil war:
2010 Israel's ambassador to the United Nations Gabriela Shalev writes a letter to Ban Ki-moon stating that Israel would use force against a Bolivian-flagged all-female aid ship intending to land near Gaza. (''The Age'')
2009 Argentina's association football championship kicks off after President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner puts it on the state payroll to avoid a financial crisis. (MercoPress)
2008 Somali pirates captured a total of three vessels in two days. (Xinhuanet)
2007 Hurricane Dean makes its first landfall in Costa Maya, Mexico with winds at 165 mph (266 km/h). Dean is the first storm since Hurricane Andrew to make landfall as a Category 5.
2006 Democratic Republic of the Congo general election: As a meeting between Bemba and foreign ambassadors representing the International Committee Accompanying the Transition to Democracy (CIAT) is taking place in Kinshasa, clashes break between Kabila and Bemba forces Bemba's residence, hosting the meeting, comes under attack, reportedly by heavy machine guns and artillery. Several hours later, the UN spokesperson in the DRC, Jean-Tobias Okala, announced the foreign diplomats, including MONUC
2005 More than 800,000 people joined Pope Benedict XVI for the concluding Mass of World Youth Day 2005 in Cologne, Germany. (CNN) The next World Youth Day was announced to be held in Sydney, Australia in 2008. BlueAirNews News
2004 The West Nile virus is now responsible for six deaths in California, with the number of people infected with the virus at 249. (HealthTalk.ca)
2003 Occupation of Iraq: General Ali Hassan al-Majid (Chemical Ali) is reportedly captured in Iraq. He had previously been reported dead. August 21082003133538.asp
2002 Extreme weather: In India, a 125-year-old dam bursts under torrential rains, killing 10.
2001 The Red Cross announces that a famine is striking Tajikistan, and calls for international financial aid for Tajikistan and Uzbekistan.
1997 Typhoon Winnie kills 140, injures 3,000 in East China
1996 Hughie, opens at Circle in the Square Theater, New York City
1995 US District Court Judge Thomas Jackson holds the first and only hearing on the consent decree between Microsoft and the US Department of Justice. Within 17 minutes, he signs his approval of it. The decree will govern Microsoft's licensing practices of Windows for the next 6.5 years, barring the company from linking unrelated software licenses. The ruling comes after five years of investigation of monopolistic licensing practices.
1994 Ernesto Zedillo wins Mexican presidential election
1993 Lyricist Bernie Taupin weds Strephanie Haymes
1992 (to August 22) Events at Ruby Ridge, Idaho are sparked by a Federal Marshal surveillance team, resulting in the death of Marshal Sam Weaver and his dog and the next day the wounding of Randy Weaver, the death of his wife Vicki and the wounding of Kevin Harris.
1991 Communist coup is crushed in the USSR in 2 days
1990 Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Nigeria, and Sierra Leone send peacekeepers to intervene in the First Liberian Civil War.
1989 Voyager 2 begins a flyby of planet Neptune
1988 Cease fire between Iran and Iraq takes effect after 8 years of war
1987 Clayton Lonetree, first US Marine court-martialed for spying, convicted.
1986 Rags opens at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC for 4 performances
1985 New York Lotto pays $41 million to three winner (#s are 14-17-22-23-30-47)
1983 La Cage aux Folles opens at Palace Theater NYC for 1761 performances
1982 Palestinian terrorists are dispersed from Beirut, Lebanon.
1980 Linda Ronstadt opens in Pirates of Penzance on Broadway
1979 Mets win a protested game against Astros, 5-0
1978 1st gay theme telefilm - Matlovich vs. US Air Force
1977 Debbie Austin wins LPGA Wheeling Golf Classic
1976 Battle East Sussex: Mary Langdon becomes 1st British firewoman
1975 US lightens trade embargo against Cuba
1972 British harbor strike ends
1971 A bomb exploded in the Liberal Party campaign rally in Plaza Miranda, Manila, Philippines with several anti-Marcos political candidates injured.
1969 Fire in Al-Aksa-mosque in Jerusalem
1968 Democratic Convention opens in Chicago
1967 China reports downing of 2 US bombers
1966 Seven men are sentenced to death in Egypt, for anti-Nasser agitation.
1965 Gemini 5 launched into Earth orbit (two astronauts).
1963 Martial law declared in South Vietnam, following raids on Buddhist pagodas
1962 Verne Gagne beats Mister M (doctor X) in Minn, to become NWA champ
1961 Jomo Kenyatta freed in Kenya
1959 President Dwight D. Eisenhower signs an executive order proclaiming Hawaii the 50th state of the union. Hawaii's admission is currently commemorated by Hawaii Admission Day
1958 KUT-FM in Austin Texas begins radio transmissions
1957 1st launching in Baikonur, Kazachstan (R7 Semiorka-rocket)
1956 WTVW TV channel 7 in Evansville, IN (ABC) begins broadcasting
1953 Sultan Sidi Mohammed Am Joessoef V of Morocco deposed
1949 Deportivo Saprissa enters Costa Rica ampndash soccer's first division.
1948 Indians 47-inning scoreless streak broken by White Sox Aaron Robinson
1947 1st Little League World Series Maynard Midgets of Williamsport PA win
1945 US President Harry Truman ends Lend-Lease program.
1944 Germans storm up Hill 262 (Mont Ormel) Normandy
1943 Gromyko named USSR-ambassador in Washington
1942 Alpine hunters plant German flag on Elbroezgebergte, Kaukasus
1940 Leon Trotsky dies of injuries sustained.
1938 Italy bars all Jewish teachers in Public and High School
1936 Red Sox Wes Ferrell, walks off mound when he feels he did no get good feilding, Sox suspend him
1932 Wes Ferrell is 1st to win 20 games in each of his 1st 4 seasons
1931 Babe Ruth hits his 600th home run (New York Yankees beat Saint Louis Browns 11-7).
1930 Prohibition of Wieringermeer finished
1929 Chicago Cardinals become 1st pro football team to train out of town
1928 WRNY began regularly scheduled television broadcasts in New York City.
1927 4th Pan-African Congress meets (New York City).
1925 BV Emmen soccer team forms
1922 Curly Lambeau and Green Bay Football Club granted NFL franchise.
1920 3rd PGA Championship: Jock Hutchison at Flossmoor Country Club - Flossmoor, Illinois
1918 World War I: The Second Battle of the Somme begins.
1916 Peru declares neutrality
1914 20th US Golf Open: Walter Hagen shoots a 290 at Midlothian Country Club - Illinois
1912 Mr Carter-Cotton chosen 1st chancellor of University of British Columbia
1901 21st US Mens Tennis: William Larned beats Beals C Wright (62 68 64 64)
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