Page 5: Historical Events In August - 21

1931  On August - 21 gregg Smith, composer   

1932  On August - 21 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) on August - 21.   

1932  Frederick Corder, composer, dies at 80 on August - 21.   

1933  On August - 21 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 August - 21.   

1935  On this day in history josef Cyril Sychra, composer, dies at 76   

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 this day in history mart Crowley, playwright (Boys in the Band)   

1938  On this day in history the birth of Kenny Rogers, American singer/songwriter   

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  On this day in history alpine hunters plant German flag on Elbroezgebergte, Kaukasus   

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

1943  On this day in history gromyko named USSR-ambassador in Washington   

1943  Henrik Pontoppidan, writer (Peter Gelukkige, Nobel 1917), dies at 86 on August - 21.   

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

1944  HMCS Alberni lost on August - 21.   

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

1945  On this day in history pres Truman ends Lend-Lease program   

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

1947  On this day in history ettore Bugatti, Italian/French car manufacturer, dies   

1948  On August - 21 indians 47-inning scoreless streak broken by White Sox Aaron Robinson   

1949  On this day in history 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 on August - 21.   

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

1952  Isaac Sadeh, leader of Jewish commando forces, dies on this day in history.   

1953  Marion Carl in Douglas Skyrocket reaches record 25,370 m on this day in history.   

1953  On August - 21 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 August - 21 wTVW TV channel 7 in Evansville, IN (ABC) begins broadcasting   

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

1958  On this day in history hawaii becomes the 50th state of the United States of America   

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1165  On August - 21 birth of philip II Augustus, 1st great Capetian king of France (1179-1223)   

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 August - 21 birth of roger Twysden, English antiquarian and royalist (d. 1672)   

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

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

1660  On August - 21 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  On August - 21 boudouin II van Bourg, king of Jerusalem, dies   

1157  On August - 21 death of king Alfonso VII of Castile (b. 1104/1105)   

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 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.