What Happened On August 21

What Happened On Aug 21 Events

1609 Aug 21 Galileo Demonstrates His Telescope to Venetian Lawmakers
"Galileo Galilei, a most humble servant of Your Serene Highness, being diligently attentive, with all his spirit, not only to discharging the duties pertaining to the lecturing of mathemat..." —Galileo Galilei, to the Doge of Venice
1680 Aug 21 Pueblo Indians Capture Santa Fe from the Spanish
The Spaniards were to report later that they fought 2,500 Pueblo warriors. Lacking firepower, the warriors blocked the stream coming into Casa Reales. Soon the Spaniards began to lose the...
1778 Aug 21
to 1778 Oct 19
 Siege Of Pondicherry
The 1778 Siege of Pondicherry was the first military action on the Indian subcontinent following the declaration of war between Great Britain and France in the American War of Independenc...
1831 Aug 21
to 1831 Aug 22
 Nat Turner's Rebellion
It was Sunday, August 21, deep in the woods near the Travis house at a place called Cabin Pond. Around a crackling fire Turner’s confederates feasted on roast pig and apple brandy. With t...
1858 Aug 21 Lincoln Loses First of the Lincoln-Douglas Debates on Slavery
August 21, 1858, was the day that Abraham Lincoln and Stephen A. Douglas met in Ottawa, Illinois, in the first of the famous Lincoln-Douglas Debates. Ottawa is a town in north-central Ill...
1863 Aug 21 Quantrill's Raiders Pillage the City at the Lawrence Massacre
Description: In a supposed retaliation for a Union raid on Osceola, Missouri, Lt. Col. William C. Quantrill led a force of about 300 to 400 partisans in an attack on the city of Lawrence,...
1863 Aug 21
to 1863 Sep 8
 Second Battle of Chattanooga
Description: On August 16, 1863, Maj. Gen. William S. Rosecrans, commander of the Army of the Cumberland, launched a campaign to take Chattanooga. Col. John T. Wilder’s brigade of the Uni...
1864 Aug 21 Battle of Summit Point
Description:As Maj. Gen. Philip Sheridan concentrated his army near Charles Town, Lt. Gen. Jubal Early and Maj. Gen. Richard Anderson attacked the Federals with converging columns on Augu...
1864 Aug 21
4:00AM
 Second Battle of Memphis
The Second Battle of Memphis was a battle of the American Civil War occurring on August 21, 1864, in Shelby County, Tennessee. At 4:00 a.m. on August 21, 1864, Maj. Gen. Nathan Bedford Fo...
1878 Aug 21 Foundation of the American Bar Association
The ABA was founded on August 21,1878, in Saratoga Springs, New York, by 100 lawyers from 21 states. The legal profession as we know it today barely existed at that time. Lawyers were gen...
1914 Aug 21 Battle Of Charleroi
The Battle of Charleroi (French: Bataille de Charleroi), or the Battle of the Sambre (1914), was fought on 21 August 1914, between French and German forces and was part of the Battle of t...
1914 Aug 21
to 1914 Aug 23
 Battle of the Ardennes
The Battle of the Ardennes was one of the opening battles of World War I. It took place from August 21-23, 1914, part of the Battle of the Frontiers. Background French commander-in-...
1914 Aug 21 French Defeated at Neufchateau
Still unaware of the vastly superior forces which the Germans had assembled, the French forces, on August 21, 1914 confidently advanced to give them battle. Namur had not yet fallen, and ...
1914 Aug 21 Germany Captures Namur
While von Kluck's army was investing Liege and its fortresses, von Buelow's army, 280,000 strong, was advancing up the valley of the Meuse toward Namur. The villagers fled from their home...
1915 Aug 21
to 1915 Aug 29
 Battle Of Hill 60
The Battle of Hill 60 was the last major assault of the Battle of Gallipoli. It was launched on 21 August 1915 to coincide with the attack on Scimitar Hill made from the Suvla front by Ge...
1915 Aug 21 Battle Of Scimitar Hill
The Battle of Scimitar Hill (Yusufçuk Tepe) was the last offensive mounted by the British at Suvla during the Battle of Gallipoli in World War I. It was also the largest single-day atta...
1915 Aug 21 Italy Declares War on Turkey
Italy had been allied with the German and Austro-Hungarian Empires since 1882 as part of the Triple Alliance. However, the nation had its own designs on Austrian territory in Trentino, Is...
1929 Aug 21 Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera are Married
On August 21, in a civil ceremony in the town hall of Coyoacán, Kahlo becomes Rivera's third wife. Diego was 42 years old, 6'1" tall, and 300 pounds; Frida was 22, 5'3" tall and only 98 p...
1940 Aug 21 Leon Trotsky is Killed by Soviet Agent Ramón Mercader
Despite the misgivings of Natalia and Trotsky's guards, Mornard was again allowed to see Trotsky alone—"three or four minutes went by," Natalia relates: "I was in the room next door. Ther...
1941 Aug 21 "The Little Foxes" Is Released
The Little Foxes is a 1941 American drama film directed by William Wyler. The screenplay by Lillian Hellman is based on her 1939 play of the same name. Hellman's ex-husband Arthur Kober, ...
1943 Aug 21
to 1943 Sep 6
 Second Stage of the Battle of Smolensk (1943)
By mid-August, the situation on the Eastern Front had changed as the Red Army started a general offensive, beginning with the Belgorod-Kharkov offensive operation (Белгородско-Харьковская...
1944 Aug 21 German Position in Normandy Collapses after Fierce Fighting at Hill 262
Hill 262 or Mont Ormel ridge, nicknamed The Mace (elevation 262 metres (860 ft)), was the location of a pivotal engagement fought as part of the wider battle of the Falaise pocket during ...
1955 Aug 21 Kelly–Hopkinsville Alien Encounter
Possibly an allusion to Ireland's leprechauns could account for the derisive term of "little green men," in referring to aliens. Whatever the source, the question arises, "Has anyone actu...
1959 Aug 21 Hawaii admitted as 50th state in the United States
The Hawaii Constitution was framed by a Constitutional Convention under Act 334, Session Laws of Hawaii 1949. It was adopted by the people at the election held on November 7, 1950, and wa...
1963 Aug 21 Tupolev 124 Ditching in Neva River
The Tupolev 124 ditching in Neva River was a notable case of water landing that occurred in the Soviet Union in 1963. It remains one of 9 documented intentional water ditchings of commerc...
1963 Aug 21 Xa Loi Pagoda Raids
The Xa Loi Pagoda raids were a series of synchronized attacks on various Buddhist pagodas in the major cities of South Vietnam shortly after midnight on August 21, 1963. The raids were ex...
1981 Aug 21 "Prince Of The City" Is Released
Prince of the City is a 1981 crime-drama film about an NYPD officer who chooses to expose corruption. It stars Treat Williams and Jerry Orbach and was directed by Sidney Lumet. It is base...
1986 Aug 21 Lake Nyos Disaster
At 9:30 p.m. on Aug. 1, 1986, Lake Nyos, in northwest Cameroon, exploded, killing 1,700 people and 3,000 cattle. Nobody witnessed the event, but survivors in the valley below recalled ...
1989 Aug 21 King Diamond releases Conspiracy
Conspiracy is a name of a concept album by King Diamond, the second part of the story begun on the album "Them". It was released in 1989. The song "Cremation" appears in the 2009 video ga...
1990 Aug 21 Alice in Chains release Facelift
Facelift is the debut studio album by the grunge/metal band Alice in Chains. The album was released on August 21, 1990. The album has been certified double-platinum by the RIAA for shipme...
1990 Aug 21 Anthrax releases Persistence of Time
Persistence of Time is the fifth studio album by American heavy metal band Anthrax. The album was released in 1990 by Megaforce Worldwide/Island Entertainment. The album includes the s...
1990 Aug 21 Ratt release Detonator
Detonator is Ratt's fifth studio album, released in August 1990. Though their previous album, Reach for the Sky, went Platinum, it met with much criticism regarding the quality of thei...
1991 Aug 21 "Barton Fink" Is Released
Barton Fink is a 1991 American film written and directed by the Coen brothers. Set in 1941, it stars John Turturro in the title role as a young New York City playwright who is hired to wr...
1995 Aug 21 Rainbow release Stranger in Us All
Stranger in Us All is a 1995 album by the reformed Rainbow. Ritchie Blackmore put together a new version of Rainbow with little-known musicians in 1994. It was originally intended to be h...
1996 Aug 21 Major Health Care Bill, Sponsored by Edward Kennedy and Nancy Kassebaum, is Signed into Law
"The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act shows what happens as Sen. Kassebaum said and Sen. Kennedy said when we work together, when we cross party lines and put the intere..." —President Bill Clinton
2004 Aug 21 Boston Red Sox defeat Chicago White Sox, 10-7
CHICAGO -- This national TV stuff, Terry Francona still has some work to do. "I showed up for the wrong inning," said the Red Sox manager, who had been lined up to do a between-innings in...
2004 Aug 21 Tinley Park Lights
The past two years have seen autumn sightings of unidentified lights in the night sky over Tinley Park and the surrounding area, and a local UFO investigator says the truth is out there. ...
2004 Aug 21 UFC 49: Unfinished Business
UFC 49: Unfinished Business was a mixed martial arts event held by the Ultimate Fighting Championship on August 21, 2004, at the MGM Grand Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada. The event was broadc...
2005 Aug 21 Boston Red Sox defeat Los Angeles Angels, 5-1
ANAHEIM, Calif. -- The shocks came, one after another on consecutive at-bats, and it is fair game to guess which registered higher on the Richter scale: Edgar Renteria's first home run si...
2005 Aug 21 Entourage Season 2 Episode 12 - Good Morning, Saigon
When Vince and his co-star act out of character, Ari and Eric must face a team of angry handlers - and each other. Meanwhile, Drama and Turtle make a musical discovery while retrieving a ...
2006 Aug 21 Keane releases "Crystal Ball" single
"Crystal Ball" is a song performed and composed by English rock band Keane, and featured on their second studio album, Under the Iron Sea. The song was released on 21 August 2006 as the t...
2006 Aug 21 New York Yankees defeat Boston Red Sox, 2-1
On Friday, while Cory Lidle's new team drubbed the Red Sox in both games of a day-night doubleheader, the righthander was in Southern California, home for the funeral of his 97-year-old g...
2007 Aug 21 Baltimore Orioles defeat Texas Rangers, 6-2
Striking success In the seventh inning, Erik Bedard's quest to win his ninth straight decision became an afterthought to his run at Mike Mussina's single-season Orioles strikeout recor...
2007 Aug 21 BioShock released
BioShock is a first-person shooter video game, developed by 2K Boston/2K Australia—previously known as Irrational Games—designed by Ken Levine. It was released for the Windows operating s...
2007 Aug 21 Boston Red Sox defeat Tampa Bay Rays, 8-6
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. -- All of the Red Sox may not love the Devil Rays as much as Curt Schilling, who yesterday on the radio talked about Tampa Bay as a potential future employer. But ...
2007 Aug 21 Taylor Swift Performs On America's Got Talent
Well, in my search of past Julienne Irwin videos, I remembered that Julienne was lucky enough to be able to perform with Taylor Swift on America’s Got Talent. This was well before we star...
2009 Aug 21 Baltimore Orioles defeat Chicago White Sox, 5-1
CHICAGO - -On a night when the much-maligned Jeremy Guthrie pitched like the top-of-the-rotation starter that the Orioles hoped that he would be, diminutive second baseman Brian Roberts c...
2009 Aug 21 Cheryle Jackson supports public insurance option for health care reform
Illinois U.S. Senate candidate Cheryle Jackson today said that a public insurance option is absolutely critical to achieve the dual goals of containing costs and expanding access to quali...
2009 Aug 21 Los Angeles Dodgers defeat Chicago Cubs, 2-1
Randy Wolf said he would take the early birthday gifts he gave himself on Friday night -- the seven-innings of one-hit ball and the two-run double he hit in the second inning of the Dodge...
2009 Aug 21 Milwaukee Brewers defeat Washington Nationals, 7-3
Washington, D.C. — After the first inning was complete Friday night, it appeared the Milwaukee Brewers and Washington Nationals would live up to their combined status of having the worst ...