BIGpedia - August 21 - Encyclopedia and Dictionary Online

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 captured 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 was first patented.
1842 - City of Hobart founded.
1852 - Tlingit Indians destroy Fort Selkirk , Yukon Territory
1858 - Lincoln-Douglas debates begin
1862 - The Vienna Stadtpark opens its gates.
1863 - Lawrence, Kansas destroyed by William Quantrill, Jesse and Frank James, the Younger Brothers , et. al.
1879 - Virgin Mary, along with St. Joseph and St. John the Evangelist appeared in Knock to local people.

1944 - Dumbarton Oaks Conference, prelude to the United Nations
1959 - Hawaii is admitted as the 50th U.S. state.
1968 - Soviet tanks under Leonid Brezhnev invaded Czechoslovakia
1971 - Black Panther George Jackson was shot and killed in the prison yard at California's San Quentin prison.
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.
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, announced that he would not seek re-election and would resign within eighteen months.