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August 21 is the 233rd day of the year (234th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar. There are 132 days remaining.

1 Events
2 Births
3 Deaths
4 Holidays and observances
5 External links

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Events

1192 - Minamoto Yoritomo becomes Seii Tai Shōgun and the de facto ruler of Japan. (Traditional Japanese date: July 12, 1192)
1680 - Pueblo Indians capture Santa Fe from Spanish during the Pueblo Revolt
1770 - James Cook formally claims eastern Australia for Great Britain, naming it New South Wales.
1772 - King Gustav III completes his coup d'etat by adopting a new Constitution, ending half a century of parliamentary rule in Sweden and installing him as an enlightened despot.
1831 - Nat Turner leads slave revolt in Southampton County, Virginia
1841 - The Venetian blind is first patented in the United States by John Hampson.
1842 - The city of Hobart, Tasmania, is founded.
1852 - Tlingit Indians destroy Fort Selkirk, Yukon Territory
1856 - America's first consul to Japan, Townsend Harris, arrives in Shimoda. (Traditional Japanese date: July 21, 1856)
1858 - The Lincoln-Douglas debates begin
1862 - The Vienna Stadtpark opens its gates.
1863 - Lawrence, Kansas is destroyed by Confederate guerillas Quantrill's Raiders in the Lawrence Massacre.
1878 - The American Bar Association is founded
1879 - The Virgin Mary, along with St. Joseph and St. John the Evangelist reportedly appear to the people of Knock, County Mayo, Ireland.
1888 - The first successful adding machine in the United States was patented by William Seward Burroughs.
1911 - The Mona Lisa was stolen by a Louvre employee.
1944 - Dumbarton Oaks Conference, prelude to the United Nations, begins.
1959 - President Eisenhower signs an executive order proclaiming Hawaii the 50th state of the union.
1968 - Soviet Union-dominated Warsaw Pact troops invade Czechoslovakia, crushing the Prague Spring; on the same day, Nicolae Ceauşescu, leader of Communist Romania, publicly condemns the Soviet maneuver, encouraging the Romanian population to arm itself against possible Soviet reprisals.
1971 - Black Panther George Jackson is shot and killed in the prison yard at California's San Quentin prison.
1971 - A bomb exploded in the Liberal Party campaign rally in Plaza Miranda, Manila, Philippines with several anti-Marcos political candidates injured.
1976 - Operation Paul Bunyan at Panmunjeom, Korea
1983 - Philippine opposition leader Benigno Aquino, Jr. was assassinated at the Manila International Airport.
1986 - Carbon dioxide gas erupts from volcanic Lake Nyos in Cameroon, killing over 1700 people up to 20 kilometers away.
1987 - Hard rock band Guns N' Roses release their classic debut Appetite for Destruction.
1991 - Latvia declares its full independence from the Soviet Union.
1991 - Coup attempt against Mikhail Gorbachev collapses.
1993 - NASA loses contact with the Mars Observer spacecraft.
1997 - The British Rock Group Oasis release album, Be Here Now.
1998 - The United States destroys a pharmaceutical plant (erroneously believed to be a chemical weapons plant) in Sudan.
2001 - NATO decides to send a peace-keeping force to the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia.
2001 - A sixth-century temple is discovered in central Mexico.
2001 - The Red Cross announces that a famine is striking Tajikistan, and calls for international financial aid for Tajikistan and Uzbekistan.
2002 - Jean Chrétien, Prime Minister of Canada, announces that he will not seek re-election and would resign within eighteen months.
2004 - A grenade attack on Bangladesh Awamee League, the bigest political party in Bangladesh kills 22 and injures more than a thousand, including party president Sheikh Hasina.
2005 - Pope Benedict XVI concludes World Youth Day with a mass. Over 1,100,000+ people attended the closing liturgy.