Page 7: Historical Events In August - 21

1981  On this day in history hermann Schey, German/Neth singer, dies at 85   

1982  Sobhuza II, king of Swaziland/Ngwane (1921-82), dies on this day in history.   

1983  On this day in history benigno S Aquino Jr, Philippines opposition leader, killed at 50   

1984  On August - 21 australia's federal budget speech is televised live from Canberra for the first time   

1984  On this day in history widespread arrests on the eve of South African coloured elections   

1985  Near Coast of Northern Peru a 6.3 quake injured at least 100 people, 60 homes destroyed and damage to other buildings in the Chimbote area on August - 21.   

1985  On this day in history premier Neville Wran ratifies legislation in NSW to make AIDS a notifiable disease.   

1986  On this day in history a report on the Chernobyl disaster blames 'human error'   

1986  On August - 21 lake Nios Volcanic eruption in Cameroon releases poison gas, killing 1,746   

1986  Lake Nyos disaster in Cameroon killing 1,746 people on this day in history.   

1987  Clayton Lonetree, first marine court-martialed for spying, convicted on August - 21.   

1987  Karl Bruck, entertainer, dies on this day in history.   

1988  On August - 21 cease fire between Iran and Iraq takes effect after 8 years of war   

1988  On August - 21 hans Gunther Adler, German writer, dies at 78   

1989  Fifty-one people drown in the River Thames, London when a dredger rams the pleasure cruiser Marchioness on this day in history.   

1989  On August - 21 soviet Union reveals deadliest weapon in its air force arsenal, needle-nosed bomber that NATO calls the Blackjack   

1989  Voyager 2 begins a flyby of the planet Neptune on August - 21.   

1990  Gang of convicts from Siberian labour camp overpower guards aboard Aeroflot passenger flight, hijack plane to Pakistan and seek political asylum on this day in history.   

1990  George Adamson, British conservationist (Born Free), murdered in Kenya on this day in history.   

1991  Attempted coup against Mikial Gorbachev stopped by Boris Yeltsin on August - 21.   

1991  Communist coup is crushed in USSR in 2 days on August - 21.   

1991  Oswald von Nell-Breuning, German theologist/philosopher, dies at 101 on this day in history.   

1992  Lucille Brown, actress (Farina-Our Gang), dies after illness at 74 on August - 21.   

1994  On August - 21 danitra Vance, comedienne (SNL), dies of breast cancer at 35   

1995  NSW Police Royal Commission key witness Trevor Haken accuses 35 high ranking officers and others of corruption on this day in history.   

1995  Anatole Fistoulari, conductor, dies at 88 on August - 21.   

1996  Rosa Joyce Plesters Brommelie, conservation scientist, dies at 69 on this day in history.   

1997  Death of Norris Bradbury, American physicist who led the team charged with assembling the components for the world's first atomic bomb explosion on August - 21.   

1997  On this day in history misael Pastrana Borrero, Pres of Colombia (1970-74), dies   

2000  On this day in history british troops are rushed on to Belfast streets after two men are killed in a violent feud between Protestant guerrilla groups.   

2005  British Rock Band The Rolling Stones kicks off their a Bigger Bang tour with a show in Fenway Park, Boston on this day in history.   

2007  Hurricane Dean, a powerful Category 5 storm, slams into a largely evacuated Yucatán Peninsula of Mexico on August - 21.   

2007  STS-118 lands at the Kennedy Space Center, completing Space Shuttle Endeavour's 19th flight on August - 21.   

2012  20 people in the Democratic Republic of the Congo die from the Ebola virus on August - 21.   

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1165  Philip II Augustus, 1st great Capetian king of France (1179-1223) was born on August - 21.   

1535  On August - 21 birth of shimazu Yoshihiro, Japanese samurai and warlord (d. 1619)   

1567  On this day in history birth of francois de Sales, French bishop of Geneva/writer/saint   

1597  Roger Twysden, English antiquarian and royalist (d. 1672) was born on August - 21.   

1642  On August - 21 birth of johann Friedrich Treiber, composer   

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

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 this day in history.   

1131  Boudouin II van Bourg, king of Jerusalem, dies on August - 21.   

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

1190  Godfried III, duke of Brabant (Grimbergse war), dies on August - 21.   

1245  Alexander van Hales, English scholar, dies on August - 21.   

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