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Friday, 21 August 2026
1991 Chicago Bull Michael Jordan, named NBA's MVP. 
1991 Soviet parliament approves law allowing citizens to travel abroad.
1991 The Soviet government begins allowing citizens to leave the country if they wished
1991 Julian Orbon De Soto, composer, dies at 65.
1992 In this year, FC Barcelona claims 373 Europe Cup 1 at London.
1992 India launches its inaugural satellite independently
1992 Rap singer raps 597 syllables in 55.12 seconds.
1992 Roger Keith Coleman, American convict
1993 10 meter meteor comes within 150000 km of Earth (1993KA)
1993 274th and final "Cheers" on NBC
1993 Ukraine Premier Leonid Koetsjma steps down.
1993 Max Klein, inventor (paint by numbers), dies at 77
1994 Bobcat Goldthwait charged with misdemeanors for fire on Tonight Show
1994 Dallas Pratt, collector, dies at 79
1995 CBS News fires co-anchor Connie Chung.
1996 Eric Davidson, comedy scriptwriter, dies at 65.
1997 Virgilio Boat, president of Colombia (1986-90), dies
2006 In this year, Finland's Lordi claims the 2006 Eurovision Song Contest held in Athens.
2007 Clashes in Tripoli, Lebanon, spark the 2007 Lebanon conflict.
2007 The ruler of Dubai, Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid al-Maktoum makes the largest single charitable donation in modern history, committing €7.41 billion to an educational foundation in the Middle East
2010 Scientists announce that they have created a functional synthetic genome
2012 Tomislav Nikolić elected president of Serbia.
2013 133 people are killed and 283 are injured in a continued wave of insurgency in Iraq
2017 In this year, 142nd Preakness Stakes: Javier Castellano aboard Cloud Computing claims in 1 minute 55.98 seconds.
2017 In this year, US President Donald Trump starts his 1st foreign trip arriving in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
2018 Two cyclists attacked by a cougar, 1 dies, in North Bend, Washington State.
2018 In this year, President Nicolás Maduro of Venezuela claims a second term in an election marked by boycotts and acussations of vote rigging
2018 K-pop boy band BTS are the inaugural Koreans to perform at the Billboard Music Awards.
2018 In this year, The Tradition, Greystone G and CC: Spaniard Miguel Ãngel Jiménez claims by 3 from American trio Joe Durant, Steve Stricker and Gene Sauers
2021 Following international pressure, and nearly 250 deaths, Israel agrees to a ceasefire deal to end the conflict with Gaza militants, effective the next day at 2:00 AM local time.[101].
2024 Actress Scarlett Johansson says OpenAI tried to hire her voice and when she refused created a synthetic voice, known as Sky, for an update to ChatGPT very similar to hers [1]
2024 Lai Ching-te is sworn in as the 8th President of Taiwan, after his predecessor Tsai Ing-wen stepped down after eight years [1].
2024 The chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court seeks arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Hamas leader in Gaza Yahya Sinwar over alleged war crimes.
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