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Friday, 21 August 2026
1929 Indian Independence Movement: At the Delhi Central Assembly, Bhagat Singh and Batukeshwar Dutt throw handouts and bombs to court arrest. 
1931 Eric Axel Karlfeldt, poet, dies.
1933 Manchester Guardian warns of unknown nazi terror
1935 2nd Golf Masters Championship: Gene Sarazen claims, shooting a 282.
1935 Edwin Cannan, economist, dies.
1937 Seymour Hersh, American journalist is born.
1937 Arthur William Foote, US organist/composer, dies at 84.
1938 Harold Baumgartner, cricketer (took 2-99 lefty in test for S Af), dies.
1939 ACV soccer team forms in Axes
1940 HMS GLOWWORM (Lt Cdr Gerard Roope+, awarded VC), sunk , NW of Trondheim in Norwegian Sea by German 8in-gunned heavy cruiser 'Admiral Hipper'. Detached from screen for British minelaying operations to search for man overboard at time of German invasion of Norway; 40 survivors. 'Hipper' damaged when rammed by 'Glowworm'
1940 Germany battle cruisers sink British aircraft carrier Glorious
1941 Earle Graser, the eight-year voice of the radio program, "The Lone Ranger", died in an auto accident.
1941 Joe Louis TKOs Tony Musto in 9 for heavyweight boxing title.
1942 A Schoenberg and Tudor's ballet "Pillar of Fire," premieres in NYC
1942 Alfred Mombert, writer, dies
1943 Hakuun Yasutani Roshi, founder of Sanbo Kyodan, receives dharma.
1943 Paul Colin, Belgian journalist/collaborator, executed.
1945 Nazi occupiers executed, Nazi general Christiansen flees Netherlands
1946 United Nations assemble for inaugural time
1947 The inaugural illustrated insurance policy was issued by the Allstate Insurance Company
1947 Henry Ford, US industrialist (Ford cars), dies.
1948 Soen Nakagawa and Nyogen Senzaki (Zen teachers) meet in SF.
1948 Josef B Kjellgren, Swedish writer (Guldkedjan), dies at 40
1950 Unarmed Navy patrol aircraft shot down over Baltic Sea by USSR
1950 "Miss Liberty" closes at Imperial Theater NYC after 308 performances.
1950 Albert Ehrenstein, Austria writer (Strum), dies at 63
1951 inaugural of 4 detonations, Operation Greenhouse nuclear test
1952 Pres Truman seizes steel mills to avert a strike.
1953 Dag Hammarskjoeld chosen as secretary-general of UN
1954 "By the Beautiful Sea" opens at Majestic Theater NYC for 270 perfs
1956 20th Golf Masters Championship: Jack Burke Jr claims, shooting a 289
1957 Frank Chester, cricketer (distinguished 1-armed Engl Test ump), dies.
1959 Gustave Charlier, Belgian literature historian, dies.
1960 Neth and Germany sign accord concerning war casualties
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