August 21st, 1807

Born on August 21st, 1807

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What happened on August 21st?

August 21st, 2007

BioShock was released in North America, becoming a critical success and a demonstration of video games as an art form.

August 21st, 2015

Passengers on a Thalys train from Amsterdam to Paris confronted and subdued an attacker who attempted a mass shooting.

August 21st, 2013

Syrian civil war: Areas controlled by the Syrian opposition in Ghouta, Damascus, were attacked by rockets (launcher pictured) containing sarin, killing at least 281 people.

August 21st, 1986

A limnic eruption of Lake Nyos in Cameroon released a cloud of carbon dioxide, suffocating 1,746 people and 3,500 livestock.

August 21st, 1963

South Vietnamese special forces loyal to Ngô Đình Nhu, the brother of President Ngô Đình Diệm, raided and vandalised Buddhist pagodas (one pictured) across the country, arresting thousands and leaving hundreds dead.

August 21st, 1945

American physicist Harry Daghlian accidentally dropped a tungsten carbide brick onto a plutonium bomb core, exposing himself to neutron radiation and later becoming the first Manhattan Project fatality due to a criticality accident.

August 21st, 1944

World War II: A combined Canadian–Polish force captured the town of Falaise, France, in the final offensive of the Battle of Normandy.

August 21st, 1942

World War II: The Imperial Japanese Army lost the Battle of the Tenaru, the first of its three major land offensives during the Guadalcanal campaign.

August 21st, 1911

Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa (pictured) was stolen from the Louvre by museum employee Vincenzo Peruggia and was not recovered until two years later.

August 21st, 1858

The first of seven debates between Abraham Lincoln and Stephen A. Douglas (both pictured), candidates for an Illinois seat in the U.S. Senate, was held in Ottawa, Illinois.

August 21st, 1808

Peninsular War: British and Portuguese forces put an end to the first French invasion of Portugal at the Battle of Vimeiro.

August 21st, 1789

The national colours of Italy first appeared on a tricolour cockade in Genoa.

August 21st, 1717

Austro-Turkish War: Austrian troops under Prince Eugene of Savoy captured the strategically important city of Belgrade from the Ottoman Empire.

August 21st, 1716

Seventh Ottoman–Venetian War: Ottoman forces suddenly abandoned their siege of Corfu, allowing the Republic of Venice to preserve its rule over the Ionian Islands.

August 21st, 1689

Jacobite clans clashed with a regiment of Covenanters in the streets of Dunkeld, Scotland.

Birthdays
... of famous people, actors, celebrities and stars on August 21st

Same year
Born in 1807

75

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

American poet and educator (1807–1882)

*February 27th, 1807, Portland †March 24th, 1882, Cambridge

96

Ernest Legouvé

French dramatist (1807–1903)

*February 14th, 1807, Paris †March 14th, 1903, 2nd arrondissement of Paris

87

Giacomo Durando

Italian general and statesman (1807-1894)

*February 4th, 1807, Mondovì †August 21st, 1894, Rome

79

Sebastiano Tecchio

Italian politician (1807-1886)

*January 3rd, 1807, Vicenza †January 24th, 1886, Venice

84

Jules Grévy

French statesman and lawyer

*August 15th, 1807, Mont-sous-Vaudrey †September 9th, 1891, Mont-sous-Vaudrey

66

Louis Agassiz

Swiss-American naturalist (1807–1873)

*May 28th, 1807, Môtiers †December 14th, 1873, Cambridge

91

Wilford Woodruff

President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (1807-1898)

*March 1st, 1807, Farmington †September 2nd, 1898, Salt Lake City

69

Josephine of Leuchtenberg

Swedish queen (1807-1876)

*March 14th, 1807, Milan †June 7th, 1876, Stockholm

79

Charles Francis Adams, Sr.

American historical editor, politician and diplomat from Massachusetts (1807-1886)

*August 18th, 1807, Boston †November 21st, 1886, Boston

29

Emily Donelson

Niece of U.S. President Andrew Jackson

*June 1st, 1807, Donelson †December 19th, 1836, Nashville

70

Patricio de la Escosura

Spanish writer (1807-1878)

*November 5th, 1807, Madrid †January 22nd, 1878, Madrid

84

John Greenleaf Whittier

American Quaker poet and advocate of the abolition of slavery (1807-1892)

*December 17th, 1807, Haverhill †September 7th, 1892, Hampton Falls

40

Robert Blum

German democratic politician (1807-1848)

*November 10th, 1807, Cologne †November 9th, 1848, Brigittenau

39

Carl Bagger

Danish writer (1807–1846)

*May 11th, 1807, Copenhagen †October 25th, 1846, Odense

81

James Lambdin

Painter

*May 10th, 1807, Pittsburgh †January 1st, 1889, Philadelphia

69

Julius Schweikert

German physician (1807–1876)

*April 8th, 1807, Lutherstadt Wittenberg †April 25th, 1876, Moscow

68

Karol Libelt

Polish philosopher, publicist, revolutionary and politician (1807-1875)

*April 8th, 1807, Poznań †June 9th, 1875, Brdów

75

Theobald von Rizy

Austrian jurist and politician

*February 11th, 1807, Vienna †May 18th, 1882, Vienna

62

Karl von Rothkirch-Panthen

Austrian politician, Chairman of Bohemian Diet (1807-1870)

*December 2nd, 1807, Sokolica, Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship †March 31st, 1870, Prague

86

Moritz Abraham Stern

German mathematician (1807-1894)

*June 29th, 1807, Frankfurt †January 30th, 1894, Zurich

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Leap year

No: With 365 days 1807 is a normal year and no leap year.

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