Page 5: Historical Events In August - 21

1931  On August - 21 gregg Smith, composer   

1932  Wes Ferrell is 1st to win 20 games in each of his 1st 4 seasons on this day in history.   

1932  On August - 21 melvin Van Peebles, Chicago IL, actor/director (Sophisticated Gent)   

1932  On August - 21 frederick Corder, composer, dies at 80   

1933  On this day in history ruth's homer leads AL to a 4-2 win in 1st All Star Game   

1933  Janet Baker, York England, mezzo-soprano (Owen Wingrave) on August - 21.   

1934  Paul Panhuysen, Dutch composer, visual and sound artist on August - 21.   

1935  On August - 21 ken Taylor, cricketer (England opening batsman three times 1959-64)   

1935  Josef Cyril Sychra, composer, dies at 76 on this day in history.   

1936  On August - 21 red Sox Wes Ferrell, walks off mound when he feels he did no get good feilding, Sox suspend him   

1936  On August - 21 mart Crowley, playwright (Boys in the Band)   

1938  On August - 21 the birth of Kenny Rogers, American singer/songwriter   

1938  On August - 21 italy bars all Jewish teachers in Public & High School   

1940  On this day in history leon Trotsky, Russian revolutionary, icepicked by Frank Jackson at 62   

1942  Alpine hunters plant German flag on Elbroezgebergte, Kaukasus on August - 21.   

1942  Kiyoano Ichiki, Japanese colonel (WW II), dies on this day in history.   

1943  Gromyko named USSR-ambassador in Washington on August - 21.   

1943  On August - 21 henrik Pontoppidan, writer (Peter Gelukkige, Nobel 1917), dies at 86   

1944  Dumbarton Oaks conference opens in Washington, DC; establishes UN on this day in history.   

1944  On this day in history hMCS Alberni lost   

1944  On this day in history germans storm up Hill 262 (Mont Ormel) Normandy   

1945  On August - 21 pres Truman ends Lend-Lease program   

1947  1st Little League World Series Maynard Midgets of Williamsport PA win on this day in history.   

1947  Ettore Bugatti, Italian/French car manufacturer, dies on this day in history.   

1948  Indians 47-inning scoreless streak broken by White Sox Aaron Robinson on August - 21.   

1949  On this day in history phila fans cause A's to forfeit game when they riot over a trapped line drive by Rich Ashburn, Giants leading 4-2 in 9th declared winners   

1949  On this day in history gerhard von Keussler, composer, dies at 75   

1951  (Leonard) Constant Lambert, English composer (Rio Grande), dies at 45 on this day in history.   

1952  On this day in history isaac Sadeh, leader of Jewish commando forces, dies   

1953  Marion Carl in Douglas Skyrocket reaches record 25,370 m on this day in history.   

1953  Baseball player reps Ralph Kiner (NL) & Allie Reynolds (AL) hire John Norman Lewis at $15,000 to give legal advice to players in negotiation on this day in history.   

1956  On August - 21 wTVW TV channel 7 in Evansville, IN (ABC) begins broadcasting   

1957  1st launching in Baikonur, Kazachstan (R7 "Semiorka"-rocket) on August - 21.   

1958  Hawaii becomes the 50th state of the United States of America on this day in history.   

« Previous Page | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | Next Page »

1	2	3	4	5	6	7
8	9	10	11	12	13	14
15	16	17	18	19	20	21
22	23	24	25	26	27	28
29	30	31

1165  On this day in history birth of philip II Augustus, 1st great Capetian king of France (1179-1223)   

1535  On August - 21 birth of shimazu Yoshihiro, Japanese samurai and warlord (d. 1619)   

1567  Francois de Sales, French bishop of Geneva/writer/saint was born on this day in history.   

1597  On this day in history birth of roger Twysden, English antiquarian and royalist (d. 1672)   

1642  Johann Friedrich Treiber, composer was born on August - 21.   

1643  Afonso VI, king of Portugal (1656-67) (mentally ill) was born on this day in history.   

1660  On this day in history birth of hubert Gautier, engineer, wrote 1st book on bridge building   

1665  On August - 21 birth of giacomo F. Maraldi, French-Italian astronomer (d. 1729)   

1131  Boudouin II van Bourg, king of Jerusalem, dies on August - 21.   

1157  On this day in history death of king Alfonso VII of Castile (b. 1104/1105)   

1190  Godfried III, duke of Brabant (Grimbergse war), dies on August - 21.   

1245  Alexander van Hales, English scholar, dies on August - 21.   

1271  On this day in history death of alphonse of Toulouse, son of Louis VIII of France (b. 1220)   

1516  On August - 21 john III van Egmont, [Manke John], viceroy of Holland, dies at 78   

1581  On August - 21 death of sakuma Nobumori, Japanese retainer and samurai (b. 1527)   

1614  Death of Elizabeth Báthory, the world's most prolific female serial killer (b. 1560) on this day in history.