Historical Events In August - 21

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

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

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  Widespread arrests on the eve of South African coloured elections on this day in history.   

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

1986  A report on the Chernobyl disaster blames 'human error' on August - 21.   

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 August - 21.   

1987  On August - 21 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  Soviet Union reveals deadliest weapon in its air force arsenal, needle-nosed bomber that NATO calls the Blackjack on this day in history.   

1989  On this day in history voyager 2 begins a flyby of the planet Neptune   

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 August - 21.   

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

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

1991  On this day in history oswald von Nell-Breuning, German theologist/philosopher, dies at 101   

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

1994  Danitra Vance, comedienne (SNL), dies of breast cancer at 35 on August - 21.   

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

1995  On this day in history anatole Fistoulari, conductor, dies at 88   

1996  Rosa Joyce Plesters Brommelie, conservation scientist, dies at 69 on August - 21.   

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

1997  On August - 21 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 August - 21.   

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 this day in history.   

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

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1165  On this day in history birth of philip II Augustus, 1st great Capetian king of France (1179-1223)   

1535  Shimazu Yoshihiro, Japanese samurai and warlord (d. 1619) was born on this day in history.   

1567  Francois de Sales, French bishop of Geneva/writer/saint was born on August - 21.   

1597  Roger Twysden, English antiquarian and royalist (d. 1672) was born on this day in history.   

1642  Johann Friedrich Treiber, composer was born on this day in history.   

1643  On this day in history birth of afonso VI, king of Portugal (1656-67) (mentally ill)   

1660  Hubert Gautier, engineer, wrote 1st book on bridge building was born on August - 21.   

1665  On this day in history birth of giacomo F. Maraldi, French-Italian astronomer (d. 1729)   

1131  Boudouin II van Bourg, king of Jerusalem, dies on this day in history.   

1157  On this day in history death of king Alfonso VII of Castile (b. 1104/1105)   

1190  Godfried III, duke of Brabant (Grimbergse war), dies on this day in history.   

1245  Alexander van Hales, English scholar, dies on this day in history.   

1271  On this day in history death of alphonse of Toulouse, son of Louis VIII of France (b. 1220)   

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  On this day in history death of elizabeth Báthory, the world's most prolific female serial killer (b. 1560)