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.
- 1689 –The Battle of Dunkeld in Scotland.
- 1772 –King Gustav III completes his coup d'état by adopting a new Constitution, ending half a century of parliamentary rule in Sweden and installing himself as an enlightened despot.
- 1810 –Jean-Baptiste Bernadotte, Marshal of France, is elected Crown Prince of Sweden by the Swedish Riksdag of the Estates.
- 1863 –Lawrence, Kansas is destroyed by Confederate guerrillas Quantrill’s Raiders in the Lawrence Massacre.
- 1879 –The Virgin Mary, along with St. Joseph and St. John the Evangelist, reportedly appears at Knock Shrine in Knock, County Mayo, Ireland.
- 1888 –The first successful adding machine in the United States is patented by William Seward Burroughs.
- 1942 –World War II: a Nazi flag is installed atop the Mount Elbrus.
- 1942 –World War II: the Guadalcanal campaign: American forces defeat an attack by Imperial Japanese Army soldiers in the Battle of the Tenaru.
- 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.
- 1976 –Operation Paul Bunyan at Panmunjeom, Korea.
- 1979 –Soviet dancer Alexander Godunov defects to the United States.
- 1982 –Lebanese Civil War: The first troops of a multinational force lands in Beirut to oversee the Palestine Liberation Organization’s withdrawal from Lebanon.
- 1986 –Carbon dioxide gas erupts from volcanic Lake Nyos in Cameroon, killing up to 1,800 people within a 20-kilometer range.
- 1991 –Coup attempt against Mikhail Gorbachev collapses.
- 1992 –Ruby Ridge Standoff in Idaho
- 1993 –NASA loses contact with the Mars Observer spacecraft.
- 2001 –The Red Cross announces that a famine is striking Tajikistan, and calls for international financial aid for Tajikistan and Uzbekistan.
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