Page 8: Historical Events In August - 31
Saturday, 21 February 2026
1999 Detroit area teachers begin a nine-day strike, postponing the inaugural day of school for 170000 students 

2005 A crowd crush on the Al-Aaimmah bridge in Baghdad results in the deaths of several hundred civilians (see Baghdad bridge stampede) 

2006 Edvard Munch paintings The Scream and Madonna are recovered in a police raid in Oslo, Norway. 

2012 Researchers successfully perform the inaugural implantation of an early prototype bionic eye with 24 electrodes 

2012 Armenia severs diplomatic relations with Hungary, following the extradition to Azerbaijan and subsequent pardoning of Ramil Safarov, who was convicted of killing an Armenian soldier in Hungary in 2004. The move is also met with fierce criticism from other countries 

2017 International Organization for Migration states 18500 Rohingya Muslims have fled from violence in Myanmar's Rakhine state after 110 deaths, making for Bangladesh 

2017 Indicationss Neanderthals were the inaugural to make glue out of tar strengthened by research published in "Scientific Reports" 

2018 19-year old Indonesian boy rescued after 49 days afloat when his floating fish trap became adrift. 

2021 36-year old Cristiano Ronaldo is confirmed as a Manchester United player for a second time when his transfer from Juventus is ratified; Ronaldo left United in 2009 to join Real Madrid. 

2023 Johannesburg building fire: 77 people are killed and more than 85 are injured in a fire in a building that had been taken over by gangs who rented it out to squatters.September 1 - Singaporean presidential election: Economist and former deputy prime minister Tharman Shanmugaratnam is elected president with a vote share of over 70%. 

2024 A helicopter crashed in Kamchatka Krai, Russia, killing all 22 occupants onboard. 

2025 An earthquake in eastern Afghanistan results in the deaths of over 2200 people and injures 3500. 

2025 Between 370 and 1000 people are reported killed in a landslide caused by heavy rain that buries the village of Tarasin in the Marrah Mountains of Central Darfur and leaves one survivor 

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