Top Historical Events That Happened on August 21

1932  Wes Ferrell is 1st to win 20 games in each of his 1st 4 seasons   

1932  Melvin Van Peebles, Chicago IL, actor/director (Sophisticated Gent)   

1932  Frederick Corder, composer, dies at 80.   

1933  Ruth's homer leads AL to a 4-2 win in 1st All Star Game   

1933  Janet Baker, York England, mezzo-soprano (Owen Wingrave)   

1934  Paul Panhuysen, Dutch composer, visual and sound artist.   

1935  Ken Taylor, cricketer (England opening batsman three times 1959-64)   

1935  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   

1936  Mart Crowley, playwright (Boys in the Band)   

1938  Kenny Rogers, American singer/songwriter is born.   

1938  Italy bars all Jewish teachers in Public and High School.   

1940  Leon Trotsky, Russian revolutionary, icepicked by Frank Jackson at 62   

1942  Alpine hunters plant German flag on Elbroezgebergte, Kaukasus   

1942  Kiyoano Ichiki, Japanese colonel (WW II), dies.   

1943  Gromyko named USSR-ambassador in Washington   

1943  Henrik Pontoppidan, writer (Peter Gelukkige, Nobel 1917), dies at 86   

1944  Dumbarton Oaks conference opens in Washington, DC; establishes UN.   

1944  HMCS Alberni lost.   

1944  Germans storm up Hill 262 (Mont Ormel) Normandy.   

1945  Pres Truman ends Lend-Lease program   

1947  1st Little League World Series Maynard Midgets of Williamsport PA win.   

1947  Ettore Bugatti, Italian/French car manufacturer, dies   

1948  Indians 47-inning scoreless streak broken by White Sox Aaron Robinson   

1949  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.   

1951  (Leonard) Constant Lambert, English composer (Rio Grande), dies at 45.   

1952  Isaac Sadeh, leader of Jewish commando forces, dies   

1953  Marion Carl in Douglas Skyrocket reaches record 25370 m   

1953  Baseball player reps Ralph Kiner (NL) and Allie Reynolds (AL) hire John Norman Lewis at $15000 to give legal advice to players in negotiation   

1956  WTVW TV channel 7 in Evansville, IN (ABC) begins broadcasting   

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

1958  Hawaii is recorded as becoming the 50th state of the United States of America.   

1958  KUT-FM in Austin Texas begins radio transmissions   

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1165  Philip ii augustus: 1st great capetian king of france (1179-1223)   

1535  Shimazu yoshihiro: Japanese samurai and warlord   

1567  Francois de sales: French bishop of geneva/writer/saint   

1597  Roger twysden: English antiquarian and royalist   

1642  Johann friedrich treiber: Composer   

1643  Afonso vi: King of portugal (1656-67) (mentally ill)   

1660  Hubert gautier: Engineer, wrote 1st book on bridge building   

1665  Giacomo f. maraldi: French-italian astronomer   

1131  Boudouin ii van bourg: King of jerusalem,   

1157  King alfonso vii of castile: King alfonso vii of castile (b. 1104/1105)   

1190  Godfried iii: Duke of brabant (grimbergse war),   

1245  Alexander van hales: English scholar,   

1271  Death of Alphonse of toulouse: Son of louis viii of france (b. 1220)   

1516  John iii van egmont: [manke john], viceroy of holland,   

1581  Sakuma nobumori: Japanese retainer and samurai (b. 1527)   

1614  Death of Elizabeth báthory: The world's most prolific female serial killer (b. 1560)