Page 7: Historical Events In August - 21

1981  Hermann Schey, German/Neth singer, dies at 85 on August - 21.   

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 August - 21.   

1984  Australia's federal budget speech is televised live from Canberra for the first time on this day in history.   

1984  On this day in history widespread arrests on the eve of South African coloured elections   

1985  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 on this day in history.   

1985  Premier Neville Wran ratifies legislation in NSW to make AIDS a notifiable disease on this day in history.   

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

1986  On this day in history lake Nios Volcanic eruption in Cameroon releases poison gas, killing 1,746   

1986  On this day in history lake Nyos disaster in Cameroon killing 1,746 people   

1987  On August - 21 clayton Lonetree, first marine court-martialed for spying, convicted   

1987  On this day in history karl Bruck, entertainer, dies   

1988  Cease fire between Iran and Iraq takes effect after 8 years of war on August - 21.   

1988  On August - 21 hans Gunther Adler, German writer, dies at 78   

1989  On August - 21 fifty-one people drown in the River Thames, London when a dredger rams the pleasure cruiser Marchioness.   

1989  On this day in history soviet Union reveals deadliest weapon in its air force arsenal, needle-nosed bomber that NATO calls the Blackjack   

1989  On August - 21 voyager 2 begins a flyby of the planet Neptune   

1990  On this day in history gang of convicts from Siberian labour camp overpower guards aboard Aeroflot passenger flight, hijack plane to Pakistan and seek political asylum   

1990  George Adamson, British conservationist (Born Free), murdered in Kenya on this day in history.   

1991  Attempted coup against Mikial Gorbachev stopped by Boris Yeltsin on August - 21.   

1991  On August - 21 communist coup is crushed in USSR in 2 days   

1991  Oswald von Nell-Breuning, German theologist/philosopher, dies at 101 on this day in history.   

1992  Lucille Brown, actress (Farina-Our Gang), dies after illness at 74 on this day in history.   

1994  Danitra Vance, comedienne (SNL), dies of breast cancer at 35 on this day in history.   

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

1995  Anatole Fistoulari, conductor, dies at 88 on August - 21.   

1996  Rosa Joyce Plesters Brommelie, conservation scientist, dies at 69 on this day in history.   

1997  Death of Norris Bradbury, American physicist who led the team charged with assembling the components for the world's first atomic bomb explosion on this day in history.   

1997  On this day in history misael Pastrana Borrero, Pres of Colombia (1970-74), dies   

2000  On August - 21 british troops are rushed on to Belfast streets after two men are killed in a violent feud between Protestant guerrilla groups.   

2005  On August - 21 british Rock Band The Rolling Stones kicks off their a Bigger Bang tour with a show in Fenway Park, Boston   

2007  On this day in history hurricane Dean, a powerful Category 5 storm, slams into a largely evacuated Yucatán Peninsula of Mexico.   

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

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 this day in history.   

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

1642  On August - 21 birth of johann Friedrich Treiber, composer   

1643  On August - 21 birth of afonso VI, king of Portugal (1656-67) (mentally ill)   

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

1665  On August - 21 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  On August - 21 godfried III, duke of Brabant (Grimbergse war), dies   

1245  On this day in history alexander van Hales, English scholar, dies   

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 this day in history.   

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)