Page 7: Historical Events In August - 21

1981  On August - 21 hermann Schey, German/Neth singer, dies at 85   

1982  On August - 21 sobhuza II, king of Swaziland/Ngwane (1921-82), dies   

1983  Benigno S Aquino Jr, Philippines opposition leader, killed at 50 on August - 21.   

1984  Australia's federal budget speech is televised live from Canberra for the first time on this day in history.   

1984  Widespread arrests on the eve of South African coloured elections on August - 21.   

1985  Near Coast of Northern Peru a 6.3 quake injured at least 100 people, 60 homes destroyed and damage to other buildings in the Chimbote area on August - 21.   

1985  On this day in history premier Neville Wran ratifies legislation in NSW to make AIDS a notifiable disease.   

1986  A report on the Chernobyl disaster blames 'human error' on this day in history.   

1986  Lake Nios Volcanic eruption in Cameroon releases poison gas, killing 1,746 on August - 21.   

1986  Lake Nyos disaster in Cameroon killing 1,746 people on this day in history.   

1987  Clayton Lonetree, first marine court-martialed for spying, convicted on August - 21.   

1987  On August - 21 karl Bruck, entertainer, dies   

1988  On August - 21 cease fire between Iran and Iraq takes effect after 8 years of war   

1988  Hans Gunther Adler, German writer, dies at 78 on August - 21.   

1989  Fifty-one people drown in the River Thames, London when a dredger rams the pleasure cruiser Marchioness on this day in history.   

1989  Soviet Union reveals deadliest weapon in its air force arsenal, needle-nosed bomber that NATO calls the Blackjack on this day in history.   

1989  Voyager 2 begins a flyby of the planet Neptune on this day in history.   

1990  Gang of convicts from Siberian labour camp overpower guards aboard Aeroflot passenger flight, hijack plane to Pakistan and seek political asylum on this day in history.   

1990  On this day in history george Adamson, British conservationist (Born Free), murdered in Kenya   

1991  On August - 21 attempted coup against Mikial Gorbachev stopped by Boris Yeltsin   

1991  Communist coup is crushed in USSR in 2 days on this day in history.   

1991  On August - 21 oswald von Nell-Breuning, German theologist/philosopher, dies at 101   

1992  On this day in history lucille Brown, actress (Farina-Our Gang), dies after illness at 74   

1994  On August - 21 danitra Vance, comedienne (SNL), dies of breast cancer at 35   

1995  On August - 21 nSW Police Royal Commission key witness Trevor Haken accuses 35 high ranking officers and others of corruption.   

1995  Anatole Fistoulari, conductor, dies at 88 on this day in history.   

1996  Rosa Joyce Plesters Brommelie, conservation scientist, dies at 69 on August - 21.   

1997  On August - 21 death of Norris Bradbury, American physicist who led the team charged with assembling the components for the world's first atomic bomb explosion.   

1997  Misael Pastrana Borrero, Pres of Colombia (1970-74), dies on this day in history.   

2000  British troops are rushed on to Belfast streets after two men are killed in a violent feud between Protestant guerrilla groups on August - 21.   

2005  British Rock Band The Rolling Stones kicks off their a Bigger Bang tour with a show in Fenway Park, Boston on August - 21.   

2007  On this day in history hurricane Dean, a powerful Category 5 storm, slams into a largely evacuated Yucatán Peninsula of Mexico.   

2007  On this day in history sTS-118 lands at the Kennedy Space Center, completing Space Shuttle Endeavour's 19th flight.   

2012  20 people in the Democratic Republic of the Congo die from the Ebola virus on this day in history.   

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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 August - 21 birth of francois de Sales, French bishop of Geneva/writer/saint   

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

1642  On August - 21 birth of johann Friedrich Treiber, composer   

1643  Afonso VI, king of Portugal (1656-67) (mentally ill) was born on August - 21.   

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

1665  Giacomo F. Maraldi, French-Italian astronomer (d. 1729) was born on this day in history.   

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  On August - 21 godfried III, duke of Brabant (Grimbergse war), dies   

1245  Alexander van Hales, English scholar, dies on this day in history.   

1271  Death of Alphonse of Toulouse, son of Louis VIII of France (b. 1220) on August - 21.   

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.