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  Melvin Van Peebles, Chicago IL, actor/director (Sophisticated Gent) on August - 21.   

1932  Frederick Corder, composer, dies at 80 on this day in history.   

1933  Ruth's homer leads AL to a 4-2 win in 1st All Star Game on this day in history.   

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

1934  Paul Panhuysen, Dutch composer, visual and sound artist on August - 21.   

1935  Ken Taylor, cricketer (England opening batsman three times 1959-64) on this day in history.   

1935  On this day in history josef Cyril Sychra, composer, dies at 76   

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 August - 21 the birth of Kenny Rogers, American singer/songwriter   

1938  On this day in history italy bars all Jewish teachers in Public & High School   

1940  Leon Trotsky, Russian revolutionary, icepicked by Frank Jackson at 62 on this day in history.   

1942  Alpine hunters plant German flag on Elbroezgebergte, Kaukasus on this day in history.   

1942  Kiyoano Ichiki, Japanese colonel (WW II), dies on August - 21.   

1943  Gromyko named USSR-ambassador in Washington on this day in history.   

1943  On August - 21 henrik Pontoppidan, writer (Peter Gelukkige, Nobel 1917), dies at 86   

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

1944  On this day in history hMCS Alberni lost   

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

1945  Pres Truman ends Lend-Lease program on August - 21.   

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  On this day in history indians 47-inning scoreless streak broken by White Sox Aaron Robinson   

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 this day in history.   

1949  Gerhard von Keussler, composer, dies at 75 on this day in history.   

1951  On August - 21 (Leonard) Constant Lambert, English composer (Rio Grande), dies at 45   

1952  Isaac Sadeh, leader of Jewish commando forces, dies on this day in history.   

1953  On this day in history marion Carl in Douglas Skyrocket reaches record 25,370 m   

1953  On August - 21 baseball player reps Ralph Kiner (NL) & Allie Reynolds (AL) hire John Norman Lewis at $15,000 to give legal advice to players in negotiation   

1956  On August - 21 wTVW TV channel 7 in Evansville, IN (ABC) begins broadcasting   

1957  On this day in history 1st launching in Baikonur, Kazachstan (R7 "Semiorka"-rocket)   

1958  Hawaii becomes the 50th state of the United States of America on this day in history.   

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

1535  On this day in history birth of shimazu Yoshihiro, Japanese samurai and warlord (d. 1619)   

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  On August - 21 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  On August - 21 death of king Alfonso VII of Castile (b. 1104/1105)   

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

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

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