Page 5: Historical Events In August - 21

1931  Gregg Smith, composer on this day in history.   

1932  On August - 21 wes Ferrell is 1st to win 20 games in each of his 1st 4 seasons   

1932  On this day in history melvin Van Peebles, Chicago IL, actor/director (Sophisticated Gent)   

1932  On this day in history frederick Corder, composer, dies at 80   

1933  Ruth's homer leads AL to a 4-2 win in 1st All Star Game on August - 21.   

1933  On August - 21 janet Baker, York England, mezzo-soprano (Owen Wingrave)   

1934  On August - 21 paul Panhuysen, Dutch composer, visual and sound artist   

1935  On this day in history ken Taylor, cricketer (England opening batsman three times 1959-64)   

1935  On August - 21 josef Cyril Sychra, composer, dies at 76   

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

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

1938  The birth of Kenny Rogers, American singer/songwriter on August - 21.   

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

1940  On August - 21 leon Trotsky, Russian revolutionary, icepicked by Frank Jackson at 62   

1942  On this day in history alpine hunters plant German flag on Elbroezgebergte, Kaukasus   

1942  Kiyoano Ichiki, Japanese colonel (WW II), dies on August - 21.   

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

1943  Henrik Pontoppidan, writer (Peter Gelukkige, Nobel 1917), dies at 86 on this day in history.   

1944  Dumbarton Oaks conference opens in Washington, DC; establishes UN on August - 21.   

1944  On this day in history hMCS Alberni lost   

1944  On August - 21 germans storm up Hill 262 (Mont Ormel) Normandy   

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

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

1947  On this day in history ettore Bugatti, Italian/French car manufacturer, dies   

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  Gerhard von Keussler, composer, dies at 75 on this day in history.   

1951  On August - 21 (Leonard) Constant Lambert, English composer (Rio Grande), dies at 45   

1952  Isaac Sadeh, leader of Jewish commando forces, dies on this day in history.   

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  WTVW TV channel 7 in Evansville, IN (ABC) begins broadcasting on this day in history.   

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 August - 21.   

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

1535  Shimazu Yoshihiro, Japanese samurai and warlord (d. 1619) was born on this day in history.   

1567  On this day in history birth of francois de Sales, French bishop of Geneva/writer/saint   

1597  On August - 21 birth of roger Twysden, English antiquarian and royalist (d. 1672)   

1642  On this day in history birth of johann Friedrich Treiber, composer   

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  On this day in history boudouin II van Bourg, king of Jerusalem, dies   

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 this day in history.   

1245  On this day in history alexander van Hales, English scholar, dies   

1271  On August - 21 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 this day in history 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 August - 21.