The 21st o August is the 233rd day o the year (234t in lowp years) in the Gregorian Calendar, wi 132 days bidin.
Events
1728 : Saunt Lawrence Island1959 : The islands o Hawaii 2017 : The solar eclipse ower Oregon 1526 - Spaingie splorer Alonso de Salazar reaches the present-day Marshall Islands .1689 - Battle o Dunkeld : Held durin the Jocobite risin o 1689, Jacobite clans supportin the deposit James VII, Keeng o Scots are defeatit bi Covenanters supportive o William II, Keeng o Scots .1728 - In the nou-named Bering Sea , Vitus Bering discovers Saunt Lawrence Island .1770 - James Cook formally claims the east coast o Australie for Great Breetain , namin it New Sooth Wales .1821 - Jarvis Island in the Sooth Paceefic Ocean is discoverit.1842 - The ceety o Hobart , Tasmanie , Australie , is foondit.1911 - The Mona Lisa , bi Leonardo da Vinci , is stolen frae the Louvre in Paris .1918 - Warld War I : The Seicont Battle o the Somme stairts.1940 - Roushie revolutionary Leon Trotsky dies in Mexico as a result o injuries frae an attack wi an ice-axe the day afore.1959 - Hawaii becomes the 50t State o the Unitit States .1968 - The Prague Spring Uprisin is crushed bi Warsaw Pact forces.1983 - Filipino politeecian Benigno Aquino, Jr is murthert on his return frae exile.1986 - Toxic gas escapes frae the volcanic Loch Nyos in Cameroon , killin 1,700 fowk.1991 - The August Coup against Mikhail Gorbachev fails.1991 - Latvie regains its unthirldom frae the Soviet Union .1993 - NASA loses contact wi the Mars Observer spacecraft.2010 - Close election in Australie atween Julia Gillard an Tony Abbott .2013 - Chemical attacks in Ghouta, Sirie , kill 100s o fowk.2016 - The 2016 Simmer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro end.2017 - The American warship "USS John McCain" collides wi a merchant vessel near Singapore , killin 11 sailors.2017 - A Solar eclipse occurs, wi totality runnin across the Contiguous Unitit States frae Oregon tae Sooth Carolina . Visibility o a pairtial eclipse reaches as far east as Scotland .2019 - Brazil 's Institute for Space Research reports a record nummer o fires burnin in the Amazon rainforest , wi 36,000 in the year up tae this date an smoke reachin as far sooth as Sao Paulo .
Births
Donald Dewar Alizée Usain Bolt 1165 - Philip II o Fraunce (d. 1223 )1754 - William Murdoch , Scots ingineer an inventor (d. 1839 )1765 - William IV o the Unitit Kinrick (d. 1837 )1789 - Augustin-Louis Cauchy , French mathemateecian (d. 1857 )1824 - William Balfour Baikie , Scots splorer, naituralist an philologist (d. 1864 )1854 - James Paterson , Scots penter (d. 1932 )1858 - Rudolf, Croun Prince o Austrick (d. 1889 )1893 - Lili Boulanger , French airtist (d. 1918 )1904 - Count Basie , American jazz muisicker (d. 1984 )1917 - Leonid Hurwicz , Roushie-American economist an mathemateecian (d. 2008 )1930 - Princess Margaret, Coontess o Snowdon (d. 2002 )1934 - John L. Hall , American pheesicist1937 - Donald Dewar , Scots politeecian, 1st First Meenister o Scotland (d. 2000 )1937 - Robert Stone , American novelist (d. 2015 )1938 - Kenny Rogers , American kintra muisicker (d. 2020 )1939 - Festus Mogae , umwhile Preses o Botswana 1942 - Maria Kaczynska , First Lady o Poland (d. 2010 )1956 - Kim Cattrall , Inglis-Canadian actress1957 - Tignous , French cartoonist (d. 2015 )1961 - Stephen Hillenburg , American marine biologist an animator, creator o SpongeBob SquarePants (d. 2018 )1963 - King Mohammed VI o Morocco 1967 - Charb , French jurnalist (d. 2015 )1970 - David Hopkin , Scots fitbawer1971 - Mike Candys , Swiss DJ an house muisic producer1973 - Sergey Brin , Roushie-American internet entrepreneur1975 - Paul Ritchie , Scots fitbawer1984 - Alizée , French sangster1986 - Usain Bolt , Jamaican sprinter1988 - Robert Lewandowski , Pols fitbawer1989 - Rob Knox , Inglis actor (d. 2008 )1989 - Hayden Panettiere , American actress1990 - Bo Burnham , American comedian, muisicker, sangster, sangwriter, rapper, actor an poet
Daiths
1940 : The affice whaur Leon Trotsky wis attackit1614 - Elizabeth Báthory , Hungarian coontess an suspectit serial killer (b. 1560 )1689 - William Cleland , Scots poet an sodger (b. 1661 )1835 - John MacCulloch , Scots geologist (b. 1773 )1879 - Edward Gordon, Baron Gordon o Drumearn , Scots juidge an politeecian (b. 1814 )1906 - Ronald Leslie-Melville, 11t Yerl o Leevin , Scots nobleman (b. 1835 )1940 - Leon Trotsky , Roushie revolutionary (b. 1879 )1942 - Andrew Murray, 1st Viscoont Dunedin , Scots juidge an politeecian (b. 1849 )1943 - Henrik Pontoppidan , Dens writer (b. 1857 )1979 - Giuseppe Meazza , Italian fitbawer (b. 1910 )1982 - Sobhuza II , King o Swaziland (b. 1899 )1983 - Benigno Aquino, Jr. , Filipino politeecian (b. 1932 )1995 - Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar , Indie-American astropheesicist (b. 1910 )2014 - Jean Redpath , Scots sangster (b. 1937 )2018 - Stefán Karl Stefánsson , Icelandic actor (b. 1975 )
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