August 21st, 2480

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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 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–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 the command of 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 risings: Jacobite clans clashed with a regiment of Covenanters in the streets of Dunkeld, Scotland.

August 21st, 1689

The Battle of Dunkeld in Scotland.

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

Birthdays and future age on August 21st, 2480

490

Elīza Tīruma

Latvian luger

*August 21st, 1990, Sigulda

494

Malynda Hale

Musical artist

*August 21st, 1986, Santa Barbara

494

Usain Bolt

Jamaican sprinter

*August 21st, 1986, Sherwood Content

495

Roelof Dednam

Badminton player

*August 21st, 1985, Bloemfontein

521

Steve Alten

American writer

*August 21st, 1959, Philadelphia

487

Kim Bruun

Badminton player

*August 21st, 1993, Seoul

518

Herry Iman Pierngadi

Badminton coach from Indonesia

*August 21st, 1962, Pangkal Pinang City

493

Kimberley Ashton

Badminton player

*August 21st, 1987, Jersey

496

Alizée

French singer

*August 21st, 1984, Ajaccio

492

Robert Lewandowski

Polish association football player

*August 21st, 1988, Leszno, Warsaw West County

507

Sergey Brin

American computer scientist and Internet entrepreneur

*August 21st, 1973, Moscow

496

Eve Torres

American actress, dancer, model and professional wrestler

*August 21st, 1984, Boston

517

Nigel Pearson

English association football player and manager (born 1963)

*August 21st, 1963, Nottingham

517

Mohammed

King of Morocco since 1999

*August 21st, 1963, Rabat

491

Hayden Panettiere

American actress, model, singer, and activist

*August 21st, 1989, Palisades

499

Tyler Winklevoss

American rower and entrepreneur

*August 21st, 1981, Village of Southampton

499

Cameron Winklevoss

American rower

*August 21st, 1981, Southampton

510

Nanaia Mahuta

New Zealand politician

*August 21st, 1970, Auckland

546

John L. Hall

American physicist

*August 21st, 1934, Denver

533

Frédéric Mitterrand

French politician

*August 21st, 1947, 16th arrondissement of Paris

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