Page 7: Historical Events In August - 21

1981  Hermann Schey, German/Neth singer, dies at 85 on this day in history.   

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 this day in history.   

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  Premier Neville Wran ratifies legislation in NSW to make AIDS a notifiable disease on this day in history.   

1986  A report on the Chernobyl disaster blames 'human error' on August - 21.   

1986  On this day in history lake Nios Volcanic eruption in Cameroon releases poison gas, killing 1,746   

1986  On this day in history lake Nyos disaster in Cameroon killing 1,746 people   

1987  On August - 21 clayton Lonetree, first marine court-martialed for spying, convicted   

1987  On this day in history 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 this day in history.   

1989  On August - 21 fifty-one people drown in the River Thames, London when a dredger rams the pleasure cruiser Marchioness.   

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 August - 21.   

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

1990  George Adamson, British conservationist (Born Free), murdered in Kenya on August - 21.   

1991  Attempted coup against Mikial Gorbachev stopped by Boris Yeltsin on this day in history.   

1991  Communist coup is crushed in USSR in 2 days on August - 21.   

1991  Oswald von Nell-Breuning, German theologist/philosopher, dies at 101 on this day in history.   

1992  Lucille Brown, actress (Farina-Our Gang), dies after illness at 74 on August - 21.   

1994  Danitra Vance, comedienne (SNL), dies of breast cancer at 35 on this day in history.   

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

1995  Anatole Fistoulari, conductor, dies at 88 on August - 21.   

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

1997  Death of Norris Bradbury, American physicist who led the team charged with assembling the components for the world's first atomic bomb explosion on this day in history.   

1997  On August - 21 misael Pastrana Borrero, Pres of Colombia (1970-74), dies   

2000  British troops are rushed on to Belfast streets after two men are killed in a violent feud between Protestant guerrilla groups on this day in history.   

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 August - 21 hurricane Dean, a powerful Category 5 storm, slams into a largely evacuated Yucatán Peninsula of Mexico.   

2007  STS-118 lands at the Kennedy Space Center, completing Space Shuttle Endeavour's 19th flight on August - 21.   

2012  20 people in the Democratic Republic of the Congo die from the Ebola virus on August - 21.   

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1165  Philip II Augustus, 1st great Capetian king of France (1179-1223) was born on August - 21.   

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  Roger Twysden, English antiquarian and royalist (d. 1672) was born on August - 21.   

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

1643  On this day in history birth of afonso VI, king of Portugal (1656-67) (mentally ill)   

1660  Hubert Gautier, engineer, wrote 1st book on bridge building was born on this day in history.   

1665  Giacomo F. Maraldi, French-Italian astronomer (d. 1729) was born on August - 21.   

1131  Boudouin II van Bourg, king of Jerusalem, dies on this day in history.   

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 August - 21 alexander van Hales, English scholar, dies   

1271  On August - 21 death of alphonse of Toulouse, son of Louis VIII of France (b. 1220)   

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

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 this day in history.