Historical Events In August - 21

1981  Hermann Schey, German/Neth singer, dies at 85 on this day in history.  

1982  On August - 21 sobhuza II, king of Swaziland/Ngwane (1921-82), dies  

1983  Benigno S Aquino Jr, Philippines opposition leader, killed at 50 on this day in history.  

1984  On this day in history australia's federal budget speech is televised live from Canberra for the first time  

1984  On August - 21 widespread arrests on the eve of South African coloured elections  

1985  On this day in history 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  

1985  On August - 21 premier Neville Wran ratifies legislation in NSW to make AIDS a notifiable disease.  

1986  On August - 21 a report on the Chernobyl disaster blames 'human error'  

1986  Lake Nios Volcanic eruption in Cameroon releases poison gas, killing 1,746 on August - 21.  

1986  Lake Nyos disaster in Cameroon killing 1,746 people on August - 21.  

1987  On this day in history clayton Lonetree, first marine court-martialed for spying, convicted  

1987  Karl Bruck, entertainer, dies on August - 21.  

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

1988  On this day in history hans Gunther Adler, German writer, dies at 78  

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

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 this day in history.  

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  On this day in history george Adamson, British conservationist (Born Free), murdered in Kenya  

1991  On this day in history attempted coup against Mikial Gorbachev stopped by Boris Yeltsin  

1991  On this day in history communist coup is crushed in USSR in 2 days  

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 this day in history.  

1994  On this day in history 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  On this day in history anatole Fistoulari, conductor, dies at 88  

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

1997  On this day in history death of Norris Bradbury, American physicist who led the team charged with assembling the components for the world's first atomic bomb explosion.  

1997  Misael Pastrana Borrero, Pres of Colombia (1970-74), dies on August - 21.  

2000  British troops are rushed on to Belfast streets after two men are killed in a violent feud between Protestant guerrilla groups on August - 21.  

2005  British Rock Band The Rolling Stones kicks off their a Bigger Bang tour with a show in Fenway Park, Boston on August - 21.  

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

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

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

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1165  On this day in history 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  On this day in history 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  On this day in history 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 this day in history.  

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 this day in history.  

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

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 this day in history.  

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

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.