About August 21
August 21, 2024 is the 234th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 132 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Wednesday.
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Leo is the sun sign of a person born on this day. Peridot is the modern birthstone for this month. Diamond is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 161 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On August 21
- 1331 –King Stephen Uroš III, after months of anarchy, surrenders to his son and rival Stephen Dušan, who succeeds as King of Serbia.
- 1778 –American Revolutionary War: British forces begin besieging the French outpost at Pondicherry.
- 1821 –Jarvis Island is discovered by the crew of the ship, Eliza Frances.
- 1831 –Nat Turner leads black slaves and free blacks in a rebellion.
- 1852 –Tlingit Indians destroy Fort Selkirk, Yukon Territory.
- 1863 –Lawrence, Kansas is destroyed by Confederate guerrillas Quantrill’s Raiders in the Lawrence Massacre.
- 1911 –The Mona Lisa is stolen by a Louvre employee.
- 1918 –World War I: The Second Battle of the Somme begins.
- 1944 –Dumbarton Oaks Conference, prelude to the United Nations, begins.
- 1945 –Physicist Harry K. Daghlian, Jr. is fatally irradiated in a criticality incident during an experiment with the Demon core at Los Alamos National Laboratory.
- 1961 –Motown releases what would be its first #1 hit, “Please Mr. Postman” by The Marvelettes.
- 1968 –Soviet Union-dominated Warsaw Pact troops invade Czechoslovakia, crushing the Prague Spring; on the same day, Nicolae Ceauşescu, leader of Communist Romania, publicly condemns the Soviet maneuver, encouraging the Romanian population to arm itself against possible Soviet reprisals.
- 1969 –An Australian, Michael Dennis Rohan, sets the Al-Aqsa Mosque on fire, a major catalyst of the formation of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation.
- 1971 –A bomb exploded in the Liberal Party campaign rally in Plaza Miranda, Manila, Philippines with several anti-Marcos political candidates injured.
- 1976 –Operation Paul Bunyan at Panmunjeom, Korea.
- 1979 –Soviet dancer Alexander Godunov defects to the United States.
- 1986 –Carbon dioxide gas erupts from volcanic Lake Nyos in Cameroon, killing up to 1,800 people within a 20-kilometer range.
- 1991 –Coup attempt against Mikhail Gorbachev collapses.
- 1991 –Latvia declares renewal of its full independence after the occupation of Soviet Union.
- 1993 –NASA loses contact with the Mars Observer spacecraft.
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