The 21st o August is the 233rd day o the year (234t in lowp years) in the Gregorian Calendar, wi 132 days bidin.
Events 1728: Saunt Lawrence Island 1959: The islands o Hawaii 2017: The solar eclipse ower Oregon 1526 - Spaingie splorer Alonso de Salazar reaches the present-day Marshall Islands .
1689 - Battle o Dunkeld : Held durin the Jocobite risin o 1689, Jacobite clans supportin the deposit James VII, Keeng o Scots are defeatit bi Covenanters supportive o William II, Keeng o Scots .
1728 - In the nou-named Bering Sea, Vitus Bering discovers Saunt Lawrence Island.
1770 - James Cook formally claims the east coast o Australie for Great Breetain , namin it New Sooth Wales .
1821 - Jarvis Island in the Sooth Paceefic Ocean is discoverit.
1842 - The ceety o Hobart , Tasmanie , Australie , is foondit.
1911 - The Mona Lisa , bi Leonardo da Vinci , is stolen frae the Louvre in Paris .
1918 - Warld War I : The Seicont Battle o the Somme stairts.
1940 - Roushie revolutionary Leon Trotsky dies in Mexico as a result o injuries frae an attack wi an ice-axe the day afore.
1959 - Hawaii becomes the 50t State o the Unitit States .
1968 - The Prague Spring Uprisin is crushed bi Warsaw Pact forces.
1983 - Filipino politeecian Benigno Aquino, Jr is murthert on his return frae exile.
1986 - Toxic gas escapes frae the volcanic Loch Nyos in Cameroon , killin 1,700 fowk.
1991 - The August Coup against Mikhail Gorbachev fails.
1991 - Latvie regains its unthirldom frae the Soviet Union .
1993 - NASA loses contact wi the Mars Observer spacecraft.
2010 - Close election in Australie atween Julia Gillard an Tony Abbott .
2013 - Chemical attacks in Ghouta, Sirie , kill 100s o fowk.
2016 - The 2016 Simmer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro end.
2017 - The American warship "USS John McCain" collides wi a merchant vessel near Singapore , killin 11 sailors.
2017 - A Solar eclipse occurs, wi totality runnin across the Contiguous Unitit States frae Oregon tae Sooth Carolina . Visibility o a pairtial eclipse reaches as far east as Scotland .
2019 - Brazil 's Institute for Space Research reports a record nummer o fires burnin in the Amazon rainforest, wi 36,000 in the year up tae this date an smoke reachin as far sooth as Sao Paulo .
Births Donald Dewar Alizée Usain Bolt 1165 - Philip II o Fraunce (d. 1223)
1754 - William Murdoch, Scots ingineer an inventor (d. 1839 )
1765 - William IV o the Unitit Kinrick (d. 1837)
1789 - Augustin-Louis Cauchy , French mathemateecian (d. 1857)
1824 - William Balfour Baikie , Scots splorer, naituralist an philologist (d. 1864)
1854 - James Paterson, Scots penter (d. 1932 )
1858 - Rudolf, Croun Prince o Austrick (d. 1889)
1893 - Lili Boulanger, French airtist (d. 1918 )
1904 - Count Basie, American jazz muisicker (d. 1984)
1917 - Leonid Hurwicz , Roushie-American economist an mathemateecian (d. 2008 )
1930 - Princess Margaret, Coontess o Snowdon (d. 2002 )
1934 - John L. Hall, American pheesicist
1937 - Donald Dewar , Scots politeecian, 1st First Meenister o Scotland (d. 2000 )
1937 - Robert Stone , American novelist (d. 2015)
1938 - Kenny Rogers , American kintra muisicker (d. 2020)
1939 - Festus Mogae, umwhile Preses o Botswana
1942 - Maria Kaczynska, First Lady o Poland (d. 2010 )
1956 - Kim Cattrall, Inglis-Canadian actress
1957 - Tignous , French cartoonist (d. 2015)
1961 - Stephen Hillenburg , American marine biologist an animator, creator o SpongeBob SquarePants (d. 2018)
1963 - King Mohammed VI o Morocco
1967 - Charb , French jurnalist (d. 2015)
1970 - David Hopkin , Scots fitbawer
1971 - Mike Candys, Swiss DJ an house muisic producer
1973 - Sergey Brin , Roushie-American internet entrepreneur
1975 - Paul Ritchie, Scots fitbawer
1984 - Alizée, French sangster
1986 - Usain Bolt , Jamaican sprinter
1988 - Robert Lewandowski , Pols fitbawer
1989 - Rob Knox, Inglis actor (d. 2008 )
1989 - Hayden Panettiere , American actress
1990 - Bo Burnham , American comedian, muisicker, sangster, sangwriter, rapper, actor an poet
Daiths 1940 : The affice whaur Leon Trotsky wis attackit1614 - Elizabeth Báthory, Hungarian coontess an suspectit serial killer (b. 1560)
1689 - William Cleland, Scots poet an sodger (b. 1661)
1835 - John MacCulloch, Scots geologist (b. 1773)
1879 - Edward Gordon, Baron Gordon o Drumearn, Scots juidge an politeecian (b. 1814)
1906 - Ronald Leslie-Melville, 11t Yerl o Leevin, Scots nobleman (b. 1835)
1940 - Leon Trotsky , Roushie revolutionary (b. 1879)
1942 - Andrew Murray, 1st Viscoont Dunedin, Scots juidge an politeecian (b. 1849)
1943 - Henrik Pontoppidan, Dens writer (b. 1857)
1979 - Giuseppe Meazza , Italian fitbawer (b. 1910 )
1982 - Sobhuza II, King o Swaziland (b. 1899 )
1983 - Benigno Aquino, Jr., Filipino politeecian (b. 1932 )
1995 - Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, Indie-American astropheesicist (b. 1910 )
2014 - Jean Redpath , Scots sangster (b. 1937 )
2018 - Stefán Karl Stefánsson , Icelandic actor (b. 1975)
Halidays
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