Page 5: Historical Events In August - 21

1931  On this day in history gregg Smith, composer   

1932  On this day in history wes Ferrell is 1st to win 20 games in each of his 1st 4 seasons   

1932  Melvin Van Peebles, Chicago IL, actor/director (Sophisticated Gent) on this day in history.   

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

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

1933  On this day in history janet Baker, York England, mezzo-soprano (Owen Wingrave)   

1934  On this day in history paul Panhuysen, Dutch composer, visual and sound artist   

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

1935  On August - 21 josef Cyril Sychra, composer, dies at 76   

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

1936  On August - 21 mart Crowley, playwright (Boys in the Band)   

1938  The birth of Kenny Rogers, American singer/songwriter on this day in history.   

1938  Italy bars all Jewish teachers in Public & High School on this day in history.   

1940  Leon Trotsky, Russian revolutionary, icepicked by Frank Jackson at 62 on August - 21.   

1942  On this day in history alpine hunters plant German flag on Elbroezgebergte, Kaukasus   

1942  On this day in history kiyoano Ichiki, Japanese colonel (WW II), dies   

1943  On this day in history gromyko named USSR-ambassador in Washington   

1943  On this day in history henrik Pontoppidan, writer (Peter Gelukkige, Nobel 1917), dies at 86   

1944  On August - 21 dumbarton Oaks conference opens in Washington, DC; establishes UN   

1944  HMCS Alberni lost on this day in history.   

1944  Germans storm up Hill 262 (Mont Ormel) Normandy on this day in history.   

1945  On August - 21 pres Truman ends Lend-Lease program   

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

1947  Ettore Bugatti, Italian/French car manufacturer, dies on this day in history.   

1948  On August - 21 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 August - 21.   

1949  On August - 21 gerhard von Keussler, composer, dies at 75   

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

1952  On this day in history isaac Sadeh, leader of Jewish commando forces, dies   

1953  On August - 21 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  WTVW TV channel 7 in Evansville, IN (ABC) begins broadcasting on August - 21.   

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

1958  On this day in history hawaii becomes the 50th state of the United States of America   

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1165  Philip II Augustus, 1st great Capetian king of France (1179-1223) was born on August - 21.   

1535  On August - 21 birth of shimazu Yoshihiro, Japanese samurai and warlord (d. 1619)   

1567  On this day in history birth of francois de Sales, French bishop of Geneva/writer/saint   

1597  On August - 21 birth of roger Twysden, English antiquarian and royalist (d. 1672)   

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

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

1660  On August - 21 birth of hubert Gautier, engineer, wrote 1st book on bridge building   

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

1131  On August - 21 boudouin II van Bourg, king of Jerusalem, dies   

1157  Death of King Alfonso VII of Castile (b. 1104/1105) on August - 21.   

1190  On August - 21 godfried III, duke of Brabant (Grimbergse war), dies   

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

1271  On August - 21 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  On August - 21 death of sakuma Nobumori, Japanese retainer and samurai (b. 1527)   

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