Page 5: Historical Events In August - 21

1931  On this day in history gregg Smith, composer   

1932  Wes Ferrell is 1st to win 20 games in each of his 1st 4 seasons on August - 21.   

1932  On this day in history melvin Van Peebles, Chicago IL, actor/director (Sophisticated Gent)   

1932  On August - 21 frederick Corder, composer, dies at 80   

1933  On August - 21 ruth's homer leads AL to a 4-2 win in 1st All Star Game   

1933  Janet Baker, York England, mezzo-soprano (Owen Wingrave) on this day in history.   

1934  On August - 21 paul Panhuysen, Dutch composer, visual and sound artist   

1935  On August - 21 ken Taylor, cricketer (England opening batsman three times 1959-64)   

1935  Josef Cyril Sychra, composer, dies at 76 on this day in history.   

1936  Red Sox Wes Ferrell, walks off mound when he feels he did no get good feilding, Sox suspend him on August - 21.   

1936  Mart Crowley, playwright (Boys in the Band) on August - 21.   

1938  On this day in history the birth of Kenny Rogers, American singer/songwriter   

1938  On August - 21 italy bars all Jewish teachers in Public & High School   

1940  On August - 21 leon Trotsky, Russian revolutionary, icepicked by Frank Jackson at 62   

1942  On August - 21 alpine hunters plant German flag on Elbroezgebergte, Kaukasus   

1942  On August - 21 kiyoano Ichiki, Japanese colonel (WW II), dies   

1943  Gromyko named USSR-ambassador in Washington on August - 21.   

1943  Henrik Pontoppidan, writer (Peter Gelukkige, Nobel 1917), dies at 86 on August - 21.   

1944  Dumbarton Oaks conference opens in Washington, DC; establishes UN on August - 21.   

1944  HMCS Alberni lost on this day in history.   

1944  On August - 21 germans storm up Hill 262 (Mont Ormel) Normandy   

1945  Pres Truman ends Lend-Lease program on this day in history.   

1947  On this day in history 1st Little League World Series Maynard Midgets of Williamsport PA win   

1947  On August - 21 ettore Bugatti, Italian/French car manufacturer, dies   

1948  Indians 47-inning scoreless streak broken by White Sox Aaron Robinson on this day in history.   

1949  Phila fans cause A's to forfeit game when they riot over a trapped line drive by Rich Ashburn, Giants leading 4-2 in 9th declared winners on August - 21.   

1949  On this day in history gerhard von Keussler, composer, dies at 75   

1951  On this day in history (Leonard) Constant Lambert, English composer (Rio Grande), dies at 45   

1952  Isaac Sadeh, leader of Jewish commando forces, dies on August - 21.   

1953  Marion Carl in Douglas Skyrocket reaches record 25,370 m on this day in history.   

1953  Baseball player reps Ralph Kiner (NL) & Allie Reynolds (AL) hire John Norman Lewis at $15,000 to give legal advice to players in negotiation on this day in history.   

1956  WTVW TV channel 7 in Evansville, IN (ABC) begins broadcasting on this day in history.   

1957  On August - 21 1st launching in Baikonur, Kazachstan (R7 "Semiorka"-rocket)   

1958  Hawaii becomes the 50th state of the United States of America on August - 21.   

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1165  Philip II Augustus, 1st great Capetian king of France (1179-1223) was born on this day in history.   

1535  Shimazu Yoshihiro, Japanese samurai and warlord (d. 1619) was born on August - 21.   

1567  On August - 21 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 August - 21 birth of johann Friedrich Treiber, composer   

1643  Afonso VI, king of Portugal (1656-67) (mentally ill) was born on August - 21.   

1660  On this day in history birth of hubert Gautier, engineer, wrote 1st book on bridge building   

1665  Giacomo F. Maraldi, French-Italian astronomer (d. 1729) was born on this day in history.   

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 August - 21.   

1190  Godfried III, duke of Brabant (Grimbergse war), dies on August - 21.   

1245  On August - 21 alexander van Hales, English scholar, dies   

1271  Death of Alphonse of Toulouse, son of Louis VIII of France (b. 1220) on August - 21.   

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 August - 21.   

1614  On August - 21 death of elizabeth Báthory, the world's most prolific female serial killer (b. 1560)