About August 21
August 21, 2024 is the 234th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 132 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Wednesday.
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Leo is the sun sign of a person born on this day. Peridot is the modern birthstone for this month. Diamond is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 161 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On August 21
- 1192 –Minamoto Yoritomo becomes Seii Tai Shōgun and the de facto ruler of Japan. (Traditional Japanese date: July 12, 1192)
- 1680 –Pueblo Indians capture Santa Fe from Spanish during the Pueblo Revolt.
- 1770 –James Cook formally claims eastern Australia for Great Britain, naming it New South Wales.
- 1778 –American Revolutionary War: British forces begin besieging the French outpost at Pondicherry.
- 1821 –Jarvis Island is discovered by the crew of the ship, Eliza Frances.
- 1863 –Lawrence, Kansas is destroyed by Confederate guerrillas Quantrill’s Raiders in the Lawrence Massacre.
- 1911 –The Mona Lisa is stolen by a Louvre employee.
- 1918 –World War I: The Second Battle of the Somme begins.
- 1945 –Physicist Harry K. Daghlian, Jr. is fatally irradiated in a criticality incident during an experiment with the Demon core at Los Alamos National Laboratory.
- 1959 –President Dwight D. Eisenhower signs an executive order proclaiming Hawaii the 50th state of the union. Hawaii’s admission is currently commemorated by Hawaii Admission Day
- 1961 –Motown releases what would be its first #1 hit, “Please Mr. Postman” by The Marvelettes.
- 1963 –Xa Loi Pagoda raids: the Army of the Republic of Vietnam Special Forces loyal to Ngo Dinh Nhu, brother of President Ngo Dinh Diem, vandalises Buddhist pagodas across the country, arresting thousands and leaving an estimated hundreds dead.
- 1968 –James Anderson, Jr. posthumously receives the first Medal of Honor to be awarded to an African American U.S. Marine.
- 1969 –An Australian, Michael Dennis Rohan, sets the Al-Aqsa Mosque on fire, a major catalyst of the formation of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation.
- 1979 –Soviet dancer Alexander Godunov defects to the United States.
- 1986 –Carbon dioxide gas erupts from volcanic Lake Nyos in Cameroon, killing up to 1,800 people within a 20-kilometer range.
- 1991 –Latvia declares renewal of its full independence after the occupation of Soviet Union.
- 1992 –Ruby Ridge Standoff in Idaho
- 1993 –NASA loses contact with the Mars Observer spacecraft.
- 2001 –NATO decides to send a peace-keeping force to the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia.
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