Historical Events In August - 21

1981  On this day in history hermann Schey, German/Neth singer, dies at 85   

1982  Sobhuza II, king of Swaziland/Ngwane (1921-82), dies on this day in history.   

1983  On August - 21 benigno S Aquino Jr, Philippines opposition leader, killed at 50   

1984  On August - 21 australia's federal budget speech is televised live from Canberra for the first time   

1984  Widespread arrests on the eve of South African coloured elections on August - 21.   

1985  On August - 21 near Coast of Northern Peru a 6.3 quake injured at least 100 people, 60 homes destroyed and damage to other buildings in the Chimbote area   

1985  Premier Neville Wran ratifies legislation in NSW to make AIDS a notifiable disease on August - 21.   

1986  A report on the Chernobyl disaster blames 'human error' on August - 21.   

1986  Lake Nios Volcanic eruption in Cameroon releases poison gas, killing 1,746 on August - 21.   

1986  On this day in history lake Nyos disaster in Cameroon killing 1,746 people   

1987  On August - 21 clayton Lonetree, first marine court-martialed for spying, convicted   

1987  Karl Bruck, entertainer, dies on this day in history.   

1988  On this day in history cease fire between Iran and Iraq takes effect after 8 years of war   

1988  On this day in history hans Gunther Adler, German writer, dies at 78   

1989  Fifty-one people drown in the River Thames, London when a dredger rams the pleasure cruiser Marchioness on this day in history.   

1989  On this day in history soviet Union reveals deadliest weapon in its air force arsenal, needle-nosed bomber that NATO calls the Blackjack   

1989  Voyager 2 begins a flyby of the planet Neptune on August - 21.   

1990  Gang of convicts from Siberian labour camp overpower guards aboard Aeroflot passenger flight, hijack plane to Pakistan and seek political asylum on August - 21.   

1990  George Adamson, British conservationist (Born Free), murdered in Kenya on this day in history.   

1991  On August - 21 attempted coup against Mikial Gorbachev stopped by Boris Yeltsin   

1991  On August - 21 communist coup is crushed in USSR in 2 days   

1991  Oswald von Nell-Breuning, German theologist/philosopher, dies at 101 on this day in history.   

1992  On August - 21 lucille Brown, actress (Farina-Our Gang), dies after illness at 74   

1994  On this day in history danitra Vance, comedienne (SNL), dies of breast cancer at 35   

1995  On August - 21 nSW Police Royal Commission key witness Trevor Haken accuses 35 high ranking officers and others of corruption.   

1995  Anatole Fistoulari, conductor, dies at 88 on this day in history.   

1996  On August - 21 rosa Joyce Plesters Brommelie, conservation scientist, dies at 69   

1997  On August - 21 death of Norris Bradbury, American physicist who led the team charged with assembling the components for the world's first atomic bomb explosion.   

1997  On August - 21 misael Pastrana Borrero, Pres of Colombia (1970-74), dies   

2000  On August - 21 british troops are rushed on to Belfast streets after two men are killed in a violent feud between Protestant guerrilla groups.   

2005  British Rock Band The Rolling Stones kicks off their a Bigger Bang tour with a show in Fenway Park, Boston on August - 21.   

2007  Hurricane Dean, a powerful Category 5 storm, slams into a largely evacuated Yucatán Peninsula of Mexico on August - 21.   

2007  On August - 21 sTS-118 lands at the Kennedy Space Center, completing Space Shuttle Endeavour's 19th flight.   

2012  On August - 21 20 people in the Democratic Republic of the Congo die from the Ebola virus   

« Previous Page | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | Next Page »

1165  Philip II Augustus, 1st great Capetian king of France (1179-1223) was born on August - 21.   

1535  Shimazu Yoshihiro, Japanese samurai and warlord (d. 1619) was born on this day in history.   

1567  On this day in history birth of francois de Sales, French bishop of Geneva/writer/saint   

1597  On this day in history birth of roger Twysden, English antiquarian and royalist (d. 1672)   

1642  On this day in history birth of johann Friedrich Treiber, composer   

1643  On this day in history birth of afonso VI, king of Portugal (1656-67) (mentally ill)   

1660  Hubert Gautier, engineer, wrote 1st book on bridge building was born on this day in history.   

1665  On August - 21 birth of giacomo F. Maraldi, French-Italian astronomer (d. 1729)   

1131  Boudouin II van Bourg, king of Jerusalem, dies on August - 21.   

1157  Death of King Alfonso VII of Castile (b. 1104/1105) on August - 21.   

1190  Godfried III, duke of Brabant (Grimbergse war), dies on this day in history.   

1245  On this day in history alexander van Hales, English scholar, dies   

1271  On this day in history death of alphonse of Toulouse, son of Louis VIII of France (b. 1220)   

1516  John III van Egmont, [Manke John], viceroy of Holland, dies at 78 on this day in history.   

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

1614  On August - 21 death of elizabeth Báthory, the world's most prolific female serial killer (b. 1560)