Notable Historical Events on August 21st
August 21st Historical Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
959 |
Erachus becomes bishop of Luik |
1192 |
Minamoto Yoritomo becomes Seii Tai Shōgun and the de facto ruler of Japan. (Traditional Japanese date: July 12, 1192) |
1321 |
160 Jews of Chincon France, burned at stake |
1541 |
Ottoman Turks under Suleiman the Magnificent capture Buda, the capital of the Hungarian Kingdom. Dominate central Hungary for 150 years |
1560 |
Tycho Brahe becomes interested in astronomy |
1598 |
-22] Deed of Transfers proclaims Netherlands independence |
1673 |
Sea battle at Kijkduin: De Ruyter defeats English & French fleet |
1680 |
Pueblo Indians takes possession of Santa Fé from Spanish |
1689 |
The Battle of Dunkeld in Scotland. |
1703 |
Turkish army removes Sultan Mustafa II in The Edirne Event, lessening the power of the sultans |
1718 |
Emperor Karel VI, Turkey & Venice sign peace treaty |
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. |
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. |
1808 |
Battle of Vimeiro: British and Portuguese forces led by General Arthur Wellesley defeat French force under Major-General Jean-Andoche Junot near the village of Vimeiro, Portugal, the first Anglo-Portuguese victory of the Peninsular War. |
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 ship, Eliza Frances. |
1831 |
Nat Turner slave revolt kills 55 (Southampton County, Virginia) |
1841 |
John Hampton patents venetian blind |
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 |
1st Lincoln-Douglas debate (Illinois) |
1862 |
The Vienna Stadtpark opens its gates. |
1863 |
Raid at Lawrence KS by William Quantrill |
1864 |
BBT Charleston, SC [->DEC 31] |
1864 |
Battle at Globe Tavern, Virginia, ends after 2500 casualties |
1864 |
Battle of Grubbs Crossroads, KY |
1864 |
Battle of Summit Point, VA |
1864 |
Major Gen Nathan B Forrests assault on Memphis, Tennessee |
1878 |
American Bar Association organizes at Sarasota, NY |
1878 |
Edward Pooley completes record 8 stumpings in a cricket match |
1879 |
The Virgin Mary, along with St. Joseph and St. John the Evangelist, reportedly appears to the people of Knock, County Mayo, Ireland. |
1883 |
Providence shuts out Phillies 28-0 |
1887 |
Mighty (Dan) Casey struck-out in a game with NY Giants |
1888 |
William Seward Burroughs patents adding machine |
1891 |
Dutch Mackay government resigns |
1897 |
Oldsmobile begins operation as a General Motors Corp division |
1901 |
21st US Men's Tennis: William Larned beats Beals C Wright (6-2 6-8 6-4 6-4) |
1901 |
Joe McGinnity, suspended from NL for punching & spitting on an umpire |
1912 |
Mr Carter-Cotton chosen 1st chancellor of Univ of British Columbia |
1914 |
20th US Golf Open: Walter Hagen shoots a 290 at Midlothian CC Ill |
1914 |
Belgium: German troops occupy Tamines |
1914 |
French offensive in the Ardennen/Sambre |
1915 |
Italy declares war on Turkey in World War One |
1916 |
Sir Roger Casement, an Ulster Protestant and ardent Irish nationalist, arrested by the British |
1920 |
3rd PGA Championship: Jock Hutchison at Flossmoor CC Flossmoor Ill |
1922 |
Curly Lambeau & Green Bay Football Club granted NFL franchise |
1925 |
BV Emmen soccer team forms |
1926 |
-22] Uprising against Greek president/dictator Pangalos |
1926 |
White Sox Ted Lyons no hits Red Sox 6-0 in just 67 minutes at Fenway |
1927 |
4th Pan-African Congress meets (NYC) |
1929 |
Chicago Cardinals become 1st pro football team to train out of town |
1930 |
Prohibition of Wieringermeer finished |
1931 |
Babe Ruth hits his 600th HR, off George Blaeholder of Browns |
1932 |
Wes Ferrell is 1st to win 20 games in each of his 1st 4 seasons |
1936 |
Red Sox Wes Ferrell, walks off mound when he feels he did no get good feilding, Sox suspend him |
1938 |
Italy bars all Jewish teachers in Public & High School |
1942 |
Alpine hunters plant German flag on Elbroezgebergte, Kaukasus |
1942 |
Transport nr 22 departs with French Jews to nazi-Germany |
1942 |
World War II: a Nazi flag is installed atop the Mount Elbrus. |
1943 |
Gromyko named USSR-ambassador in Washington |
1943 |
Japan leaves Aleutian Islands |
1944 |
Germans storm up Hill 262 (Mont Ormel) Normandy |
1944 |
Grieg/Work/Forest's musical "Song of Norway" premieres in NYC |
1944 |
Raid on Jewish childrens house in Secrétan/St-Mandé |
1944 |
US 12nd Army Corps occupies Sens |
1945 |
US President Harry Truman ends Lend-Lease program |
1947 |
1st Little League World Series Maynard Midgets of Williamsport PA win |
1948 |
Indians 47-inning scoreless streak broken by White Sox Aaron Robinson |
1949 |
Phila fans cause A's to forfeit game when they riot over a trapped line drive by Rich Ashburn, Giants leading 4-2 in 9th declared winners |
1953 |
Baseball player reps Ralph Kiner (NL) & Allie Reynolds (AL) hire John Norman Lewis at $15,000 to give legal advice to players in negotiation |
1953 |
Marion Carl in Douglas Skyrocket reaches record 25,370 m |
1953 |
Sultan Sidi Mohammed Am Joessoef V of Morocco deposed |
1955 |
Emmett Till arrives in Money, Mississippi, a week before he is murdered |
1956 |
WTVW TV channel 7 in Evansville, IN (ABC) begins broadcasting |
1957 |
1st launching in Baikonur, Kazachstan (R7 "Semiorka"-rocket) |
1958 |
KUT-FM in Austin Texas begins radio transmissions |
1959 |
Hawaii becomes 50th US state |
1961 |
Kenyan political activist Jomo Kenyatta released from jail after 9 years. Imprisoned during 1952 Mau Mau rebellion with other nationalist leaders by British authorities |
1962 |
Verne Gagne beats Mister M (doctor X) in Minn, to become NWA champ |
1963 |
Jerry Lynch's record 15th pinch-hit HR gives Pirates a 7-6 win |
1963 |
Martial law declared in S Vietnam, following raids on Buddhist pagodas |
1965 |
Gemini 5 launched into Earth orbit (2 astronauts) |
1965 |
Romania adopts constitution |
1965 |
The Crusher beats Mad Dog Vachon in St Paul, to become NWA champ |
1966 |
Mickey Wright wins LPGA Women's Western Golf Open |
1967 |
China reports downing of 2 US bombers |
1967 |
Ken Harrelson becomes baseball's 1st free agent |
1967 |
Liquid gas tanker explodes in Martelange Belgium, 22 killed |
1967 |
Mikis Theodorakis arrested in Greece |
1968 |
After 5 years Russia once again jams Voice of America radio |
1968 |
Democratic Convention opens in Chicago |
1968 |
Marine James Anderson Jr is 1st African American to win Medal of Honor |
1968 |
Radio Prague (Czechoslovakia) at 12:50 AM announces a Soviet led invasion |
1968 |
Warsaw Pact forces contnue their invasion of Czechoslovakia to end the reform movement known as the Prague Spring |
1968 |
William Dana reaches 80 km (last high-altitude X-15 flight) |
1969 |
Fire in Al-Aksa-mosque in Jerusalem |
1970 |
The Social and Democratic Labour Party (SDLP) is established with Gerry Fitt as the first leader of the party |
1972 |
1st hot air balloon flight over Alps |
1972 |
British dock strike ends |
1972 |
Grace Slick maced by police when a band official called cops, pigs |
1972 |
Republican convention opens in Miami Beach |
1972 |
US orbiting astronomy observatory Copernicus launched |
1975 |
3 truck pile up kills 10, injures 26 on French highway |
1975 |
Rick & Paul Reuschel become 1st brothers to pitch a combined shut out |
1975 |
US lightens trade embargo against Cuba |
1976 |
Al Bumbry hits 17th inside-the-park HR in Oriole history |
1976 |
Battle, East Sussex: Mary Langdon becomes 1st British firewoman |
1976 |
Operation Paul Bunyan at Panmunjeom, Korea. |
1977 |
Debbie Austin wins LPGA Wheeling Golf Classic |
1977 |
Donna Patterson Brice sets high speed water skiing rec (111.11 mph) |
1978 |
1st gay theme telefilm - Matlovich vs US Air Force |
1979 |
Mets win a protested game against Astros, 5-0 |
1980 |
Linda Ronstadt opens in "Pirates of Penzance" on Broadway |
1982 |
Palestinian terrorists are dispersed from Beirut |
1982 |
Rollie Fingers (Brewers) becomes 1st pitcher to get save #300 |
1983 |
"La Cage aux Folles" opens at Palace Theater NYC for 1761 performances |
1983 |
110°F (43°C) at Fayetteville, North Carolina (state record) |
1983 |
Joanne Carner wins LPGA Chevrolet World Championship of Women's Golf |
1985 |
Mary Decker Slaney runs mile in world record 4:16.71 |
1985 |
NY Lotto pays $41 million to three winner (#s are 14-17-22-23-30-47) |
1986 |
"Rags" opens at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC for 4 performances |
1986 |
Ian Botham takes world-record 356th Test Cricket wkt (v NZ, The Oval) |
1986 |
Lake Nios Volcano in Cameroon kills 1,746 |
1986 |
Red Sox Spike Owens scores 6 runs in a 24-5 rout of Cleve Indians |
1986 |
Surinames Ronnie Brunswijks Jungle commandos kill 2 government officials |
1986 |
Volcanic eruption in Cameroon releases poison gas, killing 2,000 |
1986 |
With 2 outs in 6th inning, Red Sox score 11 runs |
1987 |
"Mack Lobell" set harness racing's trotting mil (1:52) |
1987 |
Clayton Lonetree, 1st US marine court-martialed for spying, convicted |
1987 |
Silke Horneer swims female world record 100m breaststroke (1:07.91) |
1988 |
Juli Inkster wins LPGA Atlantic City Golf Classic |
1989 |
Voyager 2 begins a flyby of planet Neptune |
1991 |
Communist coup is crushed in USSR in 2 days |
1991 |
Latvia declares its independence from USSR |
1993 |
NASA loses contact with Mars Observer |
1994 |
-23] Typhoon Fred ravages Chinese county Zhejiang, 700+ killed |
1994 |
Ernesto Zedillo wins Mexican presidential election |
1994 |
Jane Geddes wins LPGA Chicago Golf Challenge |
1994 |
Royal Air Maroc ATR-42 crash down at Agadir, 44 killed |
1994 |
The last French troops pull out of Rwanda, ending their highly controversial mission there |
1995 |
US marshals move in on Randy Weaver's cabin in Idaho |
1996 |
"Hughie" opens at Circle in Sq Theater NYC |
1996 |
Christie Lee Woods, 18, of Texas, crowned 14th Miss Teen USA |
1996 |
Netscape Browser 3.0 is released |
1996 |
In Venezuela, a subsidiary of state-owned Petroleos de Venezuela (PdVSA), Corpoven, signs a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with U.S.-based ARCO |
1997 |
Typhoon Winnie kills 140, injures 3,000 in East China |
1997 |
US government forces closure of Hudson Foods due to E Coli break out |
1998 |
P.W. Botha found guilty of contempt for repeatedly ignoring subpoenas to testify before South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission. |
2000 |
Tiger Woods wins golf's PGA Championship to become the first golfer since Ben Hogan in 1953 to win 3 majors in a calendar year. He ties the to-par record for the PGA (-18) with Bob May, and wins in a playoff |
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. |
2012 |
20 people in the Democratic Republic of the Congo die from the Ebola virus |
2013 |
37 people are killed and 16 are injured in a bus crash near Chin Swee Temple, Malaysia |
2013 |
21 people are killed in flash floods in Qinghai province, China |
2016 |
Olympics-Basketball-US rolls past Spain to sixth straight gold |
2017 |
Next total solar eclipse visible from North America |
2017 |
Ten sailors missing after US warship collides with tanker near Singapore |
2017 |
Yankees' Aaron Judge extends record strikeout streak to 37 games |
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