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  Melvin Van Peebles, Chicago IL, actor/director (Sophisticated Gent) on August - 21.  

1932  On August - 21 frederick Corder, composer, dies at 80  

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

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

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 August - 21.  

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

1936  Red Sox Wes Ferrell, walks off mound when he feels he did no get good feilding, Sox suspend him on August - 21.  

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 this day in history italy bars all Jewish teachers in Public & High School  

1940  On this day in history leon Trotsky, Russian revolutionary, icepicked by Frank Jackson at 62  

1942  Alpine hunters plant German flag on Elbroezgebergte, Kaukasus on this day in history.  

1942  Kiyoano Ichiki, Japanese colonel (WW II), dies on this day in history.  

1943  On August - 21 gromyko named USSR-ambassador in Washington  

1943  On this day in history henrik Pontoppidan, writer (Peter Gelukkige, Nobel 1917), dies at 86  

1944  On August - 21 dumbarton Oaks conference opens in Washington, DC; establishes UN  

1944  On this day in history hMCS Alberni lost  

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

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

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

1947  Ettore Bugatti, Italian/French car manufacturer, dies on this day in history.  

1948  On this day in history 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 on this day in history.  

1949  On this day in history gerhard von Keussler, composer, dies at 75  

1951  (Leonard) Constant Lambert, English composer (Rio Grande), dies at 45 on this day in history.  

1952  On August - 21 isaac Sadeh, leader of Jewish commando forces, dies  

1953  On this day in history 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 this day in history.  

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

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

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

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

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

1567  On August - 21 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  Johann Friedrich Treiber, composer was born on August - 21.  

1643  Afonso VI, king of Portugal (1656-67) (mentally ill) was born on this day in history.  

1660  On this day in history birth of hubert Gautier, engineer, wrote 1st book on bridge building  

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

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 this day in history.  

1190  On this day in history godfried III, duke of Brabant (Grimbergse war), dies  

1245  On August - 21 alexander van Hales, English scholar, dies  

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

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

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)