August 21st, 1831

Born on August 21st, 1831

Age in days, weeks and months
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What happened on August 21st, 1831?

August 21st, 1831

Nat Turner leads black slaves and free blacks in a rebellion in Southampton County, Virginia, which will claim the lives of 55 to 65 whites and about twice that number of blacks.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nat_Turner

What else 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.

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

Same year
Born in 1831

87

Hedwig Dohm

German feminist, writer, and opinion journalist

*September 20th, 1831, Berlin †June 1st, 1919, Berlin

48

James Clerk Maxwell

Scottish physicist (1831–1879)

*June 13th, 1831, Edinburgh †November 5th, 1879, Cambridge

49

James A. Garfield

President of the United States in 1881

*November 19th, 1831, Moreland Hills †September 19th, 1881, Elberon

63

Hermann Hellriegel

German chemist

*October 21st, 1831, Mausitz †September 24th, 1895, Bernburg

59

Helena Blavatsky

Russian occult writer

*August 12th, 1831, Dnipro †April 26th, 1891, London

56

Frederick III, German Emperor

German Emperor (1831-1888)

*October 18th, 1831, Neues Palais in Potsdam †June 15th, 1888, Neues Palais in Potsdam

67

Ivan Shishkin

Russian landscape painter (1832-1898)

*January 13th, 1831, Yelabuga †March 8th, 1898, Saint Petersburg

76

Eugène Poubelle

French lawyer and diplomat (1831-1904)

*April 15th, 1831, rue de Bayeux †July 15th, 1907, rue Montalivet

77

Pierre Petit

French photographer (1831–1909)

*August 15th, 1831, Aups †February 16th, 1909, 10th arrondissement of Paris

63

Isma'il Pasha

Khedive of Egypt from 1863 to 1879

*December 31st, 1831, Cairo †March 2nd, 1895, Istanbul

82

Eduard Suess

Austrian geologist (1831-1914)

*August 20th, 1831, London †April 26th, 1914, Vienna

69

Rudolf von Knüpffer

Estonian architect (1831-1900)

*February 20th, 1831, Väike-Maarja parish †July 10th, 1900, Tallinn

57

Lucy Webb Hayes

First Lady of the United States from 1877 to 1881

*August 28th, 1831, Chillicothe †June 25th, 1889, Fremont

76

Joseph Joachim

Hungarian violinist, composer, and teacher

*June 28th, 1831, Kittsee †August 15th, 1907, Berlin

79

Wilhelm Raabe

German writer (1831–1910)

*September 8th, 1831, Eschershausen †November 15th, 1910, Brunswick

67

Othniel Charles Marsh

American paleontologist (1831-1899)

*October 29th, 1831, Lockport †March 18th, 1899, New Haven

68

David Edward Hughes

Welsh-American scientist and musician

*May 16th, 1831, Bala †January 22nd, 1900, London

65

Sóstenes Rocha

Mexican politician (1831–1897)

*July 6th, 1831, Guanajuato †March 31st, 1897, Mexico City

78

Leopold Sonnemann

German journalist and publisher (1831–1909)

*October 29th, 1831, Höchberg †October 30th, 1909, Frankfurt

59

Tommaso Maria Fusco

Italian Catholic priest (1831-1891)

*December 1st, 1831, Pagani †February 24th, 1891, Pagani

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Leap year

No: With 365 days 1831 is a normal year and no leap year.

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