Page 5: 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 this day in history.   

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

1932  On this day in history frederick Corder, composer, dies at 80   

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

1933  On August - 21 janet Baker, York England, mezzo-soprano (Owen Wingrave)   

1934  On this day in history paul Panhuysen, Dutch composer, visual and sound artist   

1935  Ken Taylor, cricketer (England opening batsman three times 1959-64) on this day in history.   

1935  Josef Cyril Sychra, composer, dies at 76 on this day in history.   

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

1936  On August - 21 mart Crowley, playwright (Boys in the Band)   

1938  On August - 21 the birth of Kenny Rogers, American singer/songwriter   

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 August - 21 alpine hunters plant German flag on Elbroezgebergte, Kaukasus   

1942  Kiyoano Ichiki, Japanese colonel (WW II), dies on August - 21.   

1943  Gromyko named USSR-ambassador in Washington on this day in history.   

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  On August - 21 hMCS Alberni lost   

1944  Germans storm up Hill 262 (Mont Ormel) Normandy on August - 21.   

1945  Pres Truman ends Lend-Lease program on this day in history.   

1947  1st Little League World Series Maynard Midgets of Williamsport PA win on August - 21.   

1947  Ettore Bugatti, Italian/French car manufacturer, dies on August - 21.   

1948  On this day in history 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  On this day in history gerhard von Keussler, composer, dies at 75   

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

1952  On this day in history isaac Sadeh, leader of Jewish commando forces, dies   

1953  Marion Carl in Douglas Skyrocket reaches record 25,370 m on August - 21.   

1953  On this day in history baseball player reps Ralph Kiner (NL) & Allie Reynolds (AL) hire John Norman Lewis at $15,000 to give legal advice to players in negotiation   

1956  On this day in history wTVW TV channel 7 in Evansville, IN (ABC) begins broadcasting   

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

1958  Hawaii becomes the 50th state of the United States of America on August - 21.   

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1165  Philip II Augustus, 1st great Capetian king of France (1179-1223) was born on this day in history.   

1535  On this day in history birth of shimazu Yoshihiro, Japanese samurai and warlord (d. 1619)   

1567  Francois de Sales, French bishop of Geneva/writer/saint was born on this day in history.   

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

1642  Johann Friedrich Treiber, composer was born on this day in history.   

1643  Afonso VI, king of Portugal (1656-67) (mentally ill) was born on August - 21.   

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 August - 21.   

1131  Boudouin II van Bourg, king of Jerusalem, dies on this day in history.   

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

1190  On August - 21 godfried III, duke of Brabant (Grimbergse war), dies   

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

1271  On August - 21 death of alphonse of Toulouse, son of Louis VIII of France (b. 1220)   

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

1581  On August - 21 death of sakuma Nobumori, Japanese retainer and samurai (b. 1527)   

1614  Death of Elizabeth Báthory, the world's most prolific female serial killer (b. 1560) on this day in history.