August 21st, 2003

Born on August 21st, 2003

Age in days, weeks and months
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... in seconds, minutes and hours

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

Born on August 21st, 2003

22

Sofiia Nesterova

Figure skater

*August 21st, 2003, Dnipro

Same year
Born in 2003

22

Tate McRae

Canadian singer

*July 1st, 2003, Calgary

23

Johnny Orlando

Canadian singer-songwriter and actor

*January 24th, 2003, Mississauga

23

Francesca Barale

Italian cyclist

*April 29th, 2003, Domodossola

23

Sangiovanni

Italian singer-songwriter

*January 9th, 2003, Vicenza

23

Treesa Jolly

Indian badminton player

*May 27th, 2003, Cherupuzha, Kannur

23

Pia Maria

Austrian singer-songwriter

*May 21st, 2003, Tyrol

23

Keisya Levronka

Indonesian singer and actress

*February 2nd, 2003, Malang

22

Ana Castela

Brazilian singer

*November 16th, 2003, Amambai

23

Greta Thunberg

Swedish climate protection activist (born 2003)

*January 3rd, 2003, Stockholm

22

Jude Bellingham

English association football player (born 2003)

*June 29th, 2003, Stourbridge

23

Isra Hirsi

American environmental activist (born 2003)

*February 22nd, 2003, Minneapolis

22

Rayan Cherki

French footballer (born 2003)

*August 17th, 2003, Lyon

23

Emjay Anthony

American actor

*June 1st, 2003, Clearwater Beach

22

Jack Dylan Grazer

American actor

*September 3rd, 2003, Los Angeles

22

Wyatt Oleff

American actor

*July 13th, 2003, Chicago

23

Louis Partridge

British actor

*June 3rd, 2003, London Borough of Wandsworth

22

Isaac Del Toro

Mexican cyclist

*November 27th, 2003, Ensenada

23

Jeremy Ray Taylor

American actor

*June 2nd, 2003, Bluff City

23

Alicia Fabbri

Canadian ice dancer

*February 16th, 2003, Laval

23

Eva-Lotta Kiibus

Estonian figure skater

*January 17th, 2003, Tallinn

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Public holidays on August 21st

Fixed holidays (Christian Feast Day) which are celebrated on August 21st.

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Born on August 21st, 2003
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Leap year

No: With 365 days 2003 is a normal year and no leap year.

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