Historical Events In August - 21

1931  On August - 21 gregg Smith, composer   

1932  Wes Ferrell is 1st to win 20 games in each of his 1st 4 seasons on August - 21.   

1932  On this day in history melvin Van Peebles, Chicago IL, actor/director (Sophisticated Gent)   

1932  Frederick Corder, composer, dies at 80 on August - 21.   

1933  On this day in history ruth's homer leads AL to a 4-2 win in 1st All Star Game   

1933  Janet Baker, York England, mezzo-soprano (Owen Wingrave) on this day in history.   

1934  On August - 21 paul Panhuysen, Dutch composer, visual and sound artist   

1935  Ken Taylor, cricketer (England opening batsman three times 1959-64) on August - 21.   

1935  On this day in history josef Cyril Sychra, composer, dies at 76   

1936  Red Sox Wes Ferrell, walks off mound when he feels he did no get good feilding, Sox suspend him on this day in history.   

1936  Mart Crowley, playwright (Boys in the Band) on August - 21.   

1938  The birth of Kenny Rogers, American singer/songwriter on this day in history.   

1938  On August - 21 italy bars all Jewish teachers in Public & High School   

1940  Leon Trotsky, Russian revolutionary, icepicked by Frank Jackson at 62 on this day in history.   

1942  On this day in history alpine hunters plant German flag on Elbroezgebergte, Kaukasus   

1942  On August - 21 kiyoano Ichiki, Japanese colonel (WW II), dies   

1943  On this day in history gromyko named USSR-ambassador in Washington   

1943  Henrik Pontoppidan, writer (Peter Gelukkige, Nobel 1917), dies at 86 on August - 21.   

1944  Dumbarton Oaks conference opens in Washington, DC; establishes UN on this day in history.   

1944  HMCS Alberni lost on August - 21.   

1944  On this day in history germans storm up Hill 262 (Mont Ormel) Normandy   

1945  On August - 21 pres Truman ends Lend-Lease program   

1947  1st Little League World Series Maynard Midgets of Williamsport PA win on this day in history.   

1947  On this day in history ettore Bugatti, Italian/French car manufacturer, dies   

1948  On August - 21 indians 47-inning scoreless streak broken by White Sox Aaron Robinson   

1949  On August - 21 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   

1949  Gerhard von Keussler, composer, dies at 75 on this day in history.   

1951  (Leonard) Constant Lambert, English composer (Rio Grande), dies at 45 on August - 21.   

1952  Isaac Sadeh, leader of Jewish commando forces, dies on this day in history.   

1953  On August - 21 marion Carl in Douglas Skyrocket reaches record 25,370 m   

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 on August - 21.   

1956  WTVW TV channel 7 in Evansville, IN (ABC) begins broadcasting on this day in history.   

1957  On August - 21 1st launching in Baikonur, Kazachstan (R7 "Semiorka"-rocket)   

1958  Hawaii becomes the 50th state of the United States of America on this day in history.   

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1165  On August - 21 birth of philip II Augustus, 1st great Capetian king of France (1179-1223)   

1535  Shimazu Yoshihiro, Japanese samurai and warlord (d. 1619) was born on August - 21.   

1567  Francois de Sales, French bishop of Geneva/writer/saint was born on August - 21.   

1597  Roger Twysden, English antiquarian and royalist (d. 1672) was born on August - 21.   

1642  Johann Friedrich Treiber, composer was born on August - 21.   

1643  On August - 21 birth of afonso VI, king of Portugal (1656-67) (mentally ill)   

1660  Hubert Gautier, engineer, wrote 1st book on bridge building was born on August - 21.   

1665  Giacomo F. Maraldi, French-Italian astronomer (d. 1729) was born on this day in history.   

1131  On August - 21 boudouin II van Bourg, king of Jerusalem, dies   

1157  Death of King Alfonso VII of Castile (b. 1104/1105) on this day in history.   

1190  Godfried III, duke of Brabant (Grimbergse war), dies on August - 21.   

1245  Alexander van Hales, English scholar, dies on August - 21.   

1271  Death of Alphonse of Toulouse, son of Louis VIII of France (b. 1220) on August - 21.   

1516  John III van Egmont, [Manke John], viceroy of Holland, dies at 78 on August - 21.   

1581  Death of Sakuma Nobumori, Japanese retainer and samurai (b. 1527) on this day in history.   

1614  On this day in history death of elizabeth Báthory, the world's most prolific female serial killer (b. 1560)