About August 21
August 21, 2022 is the 233rd day of the year 2022 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 132 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Sunday.
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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 154 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On August 21
- 1192 –Minamoto Yoritomo becomes Seii Tai Shōgun and the de facto ruler of Japan. (Traditional Japanese date: July 12, 1192)
- 1331 –King Stephen Uroš III, after months of anarchy, surrenders to his son and rival Stephen Dušan, who succeeds as King of Serbia.
- 1680 –Pueblo Indians capture Santa Fe from Spanish during the Pueblo Revolt.
- 1689 –The Battle of Dunkeld in Scotland.
- 1770 –James Cook formally claims eastern Australia for Great Britain, naming it New South Wales.
- 1772 –King Gustav III completes his coup d'état by adopting a new Constitution, ending half a century of parliamentary rule in Sweden and installing himself as an enlightened despot.
- 1808 –Battle of Vimeiro: British and Portuguese forces led by General Arthur Wellesley defeat French force under Major-General Jean-Andoche Junot near the village of Vimeiro, Portugal, the first Anglo-Portuguese victory of the Peninsular War.
- 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.
- 1911 –The Mona Lisa is stolen by a Louvre employee.
- 1918 –World War I: The Second Battle of the Somme begins.
- 1942 –World War II: a Nazi flag is installed atop the Mount Elbrus.
- 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.
- 1959 –President Dwight D. Eisenhower signs an executive order proclaiming Hawaii the 50th state of the union. Hawaii’s admission is currently commemorated by Hawaii Admission Day
- 1968 –James Anderson, Jr. posthumously receives the first Medal of Honor to be awarded to an African American U.S. Marine.
- 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.
- 1979 –Soviet dancer Alexander Godunov defects to the United States.
- 1992 –Ruby Ridge Standoff in Idaho
- 2001 –The Red Cross announces that a famine is striking Tajikistan, and calls for international financial aid for Tajikistan and Uzbekistan.
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