Main Page | See live article | Alphabetical index August 21 is the 233rd day of the year (234th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar. There are 132 days remaining. Table of contents 1 Events 2 Births 3 Deaths 4 Holidays and observances Events 1680 - Pueblo Indians captured Santa Fe from Spanish during the Pueblo Revolt 1831 - Nat Turner leads slave revolt in Southampton County, Virginia 1852 - Tlingit Indians destroy Fort Selkirk, Yukon Territory 1858 - Lincoln-Douglas debates begin 1863 - Lawrence, Kansas destroyed by William Quantrill, Jesse and Frank James, the Younger Brothers, et. al. 1911 - The Mona Lisa is stolen from the Louvre 1944 - Dumbarton Oaks Conference, prelude to the United Nations 1959 - Hawaii is admitted as the 50th U.S. state. 1971 - Black Panther George Jackson was gunned down in the prison yard at California's San Quentin prison. 1986 - Toxic gas erupts from volcanic Lake Nyos in Cameroon, killing over 1700 people 1991 - Coup attempt against Mikhail Gorbachev collapses 1998 - The United States destroys a pharmaceutical plant (erroneously believed to be a chemical weapons plant) in Sudan 2001 - NATO decides to send a peace-keeping force to the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia 2001 - A sixth-century temple is discovered in central Mexico 2001 - The Red Cross announces that a famine is striking Tajikistan, and calls for international financial aid for Tajikistan and Uzbekistan Births 1165 - Philip II of France 1765 - William IV of the United Kingdom (d. 1837) 1811 - William Kelly, iron manufacturer, inventor (d. 1888) 1872 - Aubrey Beardsley, illustrator (d. 1898) 1904 - Count Basie (William Allen Basie), bandleader (d. 1984) 1906 - Fritz Freleng, movie animator 1920 - Christopher Robin Milne, propotype of the Christopher Robin in the Winnie the Pooh stories 1923 - Shimon Peres, Prime Minister of Israel 1924 - Jack Weston, actor (d. 1996) 1924 - Chris Scheknel, sports journalist 1928 - Art Farmer, trumpet player 1930 - Princess Margaret of the United Kingdom (d. 2002) 1932 - Melvin Van Peebles, actor, screenwriter 1936 - Wilt Chamberlain, Basketball Hall of Famer (d. 1999) 1938 - Kenny Rogers, singer, actor 1939 - Clarence Williams III, actor 1944 - Jackie DeShannon, singer 1956 - Kim Cattrall, actress 1959 - Jim McMahon, National Football League quarterback 1963 - Mohammed VI of Morocco 1967 - Carrie-Anne Moss, actress 1969 - Joseé Chouinard, Canadian figure skater Deaths 1153 - Bernard of Clairvaux, Christian theologian 1614 - Elizabeth Bathory, serial killer 1940 - Leon Trotsky, Russian revolutionary 1940 - Ernest Lawrence Thayer, poet 1947 - Ettore Bugatti, automobile manufacturer 1951 - Constant Lambert, composer 1978 - Charles Eames, American designer and architect 1983 - Benigno S. Aquino Jr, Philippine opposition leader 1988 - Ray Eames, American designer 1997 - Norris Bradbury, physicist 2003 - Wesley Willis, musician Holidays and observances Roman Empire - Consualia, in honor of Consus, is held See Also: August 20 - August 22 - July 21 - September 21 -- listing of all days January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November, December\n This article is from Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.