August 21 is the 233rd day of the year (234th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar. There are 132 days remaining.
August 21 - Events.
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
1770 - James Cook formally claims eastern Australia for Great Britain, naming it New South Wales.
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1993 (MCMXCIII) is a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar and marked the Beginning of the International Decade to Combat Racism and Racial Discrimination (1993-2003).
1993 - Events.
January 1 - Czechoslovakia divides. Establishment of independent Slovakia and Czech Republic.
January 3 - In Moscow, George H. W. Bush and Boris Yeltsin sign the second Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START).
January 5 - Washington State executes Westley Allan Do ...
1989 (MCMLXXXIX) is a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. The world population growth in absolute numbers is believed to have been the highest ever around this time. [1]
1989 - Events.
January 8 - the Kegworth Air Disaster - A British Midland Boeing 737 crashes on approach to East Midlands Airport - 44 dead
January 16–18 - Race riots in Overtown, Miami
January 10 - Cuban troops begin withdrawing from Angola
January 10 - Assistant Austra ...
1951 (MCMLI) was a common year starting on Monday; see its calendar.
1951 - Events.
January 9 - United Nations headquarters officially opens (New York City).
January 15 - Ilse Koch, The "Witch of Buchenwald," wife of the Commandant of the Buchenwald concentration camp, is sentenced to life imprisonment in a court in West Germany.
January 17 - Korean War: Chinese and North Korean forces capture Seoul.
January 20 - Avalanches in the Alps - 240 die and 45.000 are ...
1944 (MCMXLIV) was a leap year starting on Saturday (link will take you to calendar).
1944 - Events.
January 4 - The Battle of Monte Cassino begins.
January 5 - Murder of Danish playwright Kaj Munk.
January 14 - The Soviet troops start the offensive at Leningrad and Novgorod.
January 17 - British forces, in Italy, cross the Garigliano River.
January 17 - Meat Rationing ends in Australia.
January 20 - The Royal Air Force drops 2,300 to ...
1952 (MCMLII) was a leap year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar).
1952 - Events.
January 8 - West Germany has 8 million refugees inside its borders.
January 24 - Sudden heavy snowfall in Algeria.
January 24 - Vincent Massey sworn in as first Canada-born Governor-General of Canada.
1952 - February.
February 2 - A tropical storm forms just north of Cuba moving northeast. The storm makes landfall in southe ...
1954 (MCMLIV) was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar.
1954 - Events.
January 1 - Soviet Union no longer demands war reparations from East Germany
January 12 - Large-scale avalanches in Austria - over 20 dead
January 14 - The Hudson Motor Car Company merges with Nash-Kelvinator forming the American Motors Corporation
January 14 - Marilyn Monroe weds Joe DiMaggio.
January 15 - Mau Mau leader Waruhiu Itote is captured in KenyaIncluding:
Augustin Louis Cauchy (August 21, 1789 – May 23, 1857) was a French mathematician. He started the project of formulating and proving the theorems of calculus in a rigorous manner and was thus an early pioneer of analysis. He also gave several important theorems in complex analysis and initiated the study of permutation groups. A profound mathematician, Cauchy exercised by his perspicuous and rigorous methods a great influence over his contemporaries and successors. His writings cov ...
1956 (MCMLVI) was a leap year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar.
1956 - Events.
January 1 - End of Anglo-Egyptian Codominium in Sudan.
January 16 - President Gamal Abdal Nasser of Egypt vows to reconquer Palestine.
January 26 - 1956 Winter Olympic Games open in Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy.
January 26 - The United Kingdom bans heroin.
January 25-January 26 - Finnish troops reoccupy Porkkala after Soviet troops vacate its military base. Civilian ...
1978 (MCMLXXVIII) was a common year starting on Sunday (the link is to a full 1978 calendar).
1978 - Events.
January 1 - The Copyright Act of 1976 takes effect, making sweeping changes to United States copyright law.
January 1 - Air India's Boeing 747 explodes near Bombay - 213 dead.
January 4 - Referendum in Chile supports policies of Augusto Pinochet.
January 6 - The Hungarian Holy Crown (also known as Stephen of Hungary Crown) returned to Hungary from the U ...
1970 (MCMLXX) was a common year starting on Thursday. 1970 is the Unix epoch time.
1970 - Events.
January 1 - Construction begins on Arcosanti, by Paolo Soleri, in Mayer, Arizona, located 65 miles north of Phoenix, Arizona.
January 1 - Unix epoch at 00:00:00 UTC.
January 5 - The first episode of All My Children was broadcast on the ABC television network.
January 12 - Biafra capitulates, ending the Nigerian civil war.
January 15 - After a 32-mo ...
The calendar of saints is a traditional Christian method of organising a liturgical year on the level of days by associating each day with one or more saints, and referring to the day as the saint's day of that saint. The system arose from the very early Christian custom of annual commemoration of martyrs on the date of their death. As the number of recognized saints increased during Late Antiquity and roughly the first half of the Middle Ages, eventually every day of the year had at least one saint who was commemorated on that ...
1983 (MCMLXXXIII) is a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar.
1983 - Events.
January 2 - The musical Annie is performed for the last time after 2,377 shows (Uris Theatre on Broadway, New York City).
January 8 - Riot in the Sing Sing prison
January 10 - Mafia hitman Roy DeMeo is found dead in a trunk of his own car
January 15 - Mafioso Meyer Lansky dies at Mount Sinai hospital
January 19 - Klaus B ...
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1875 was a common year starting on Friday (see link for calendar). In the ISO 8601 calendar, 1875 is defined as the year the Convention du Mètre was originally signed, by way of a reference year.
1875 - Events.
January 12 - Kwang-su becomes emperor of China.
February 27 - Newton Booth, 11th Governor of California resigns, having been elected Senator. Lieutenant Governor ...
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1879 was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar).
1879 - Events.
January - The current constitution of The State of California, US was ratified.
January 2 - Fred Spofforth claims the first Hat-trick in test cricket.
January 11 - Anglo-Zulu War begins.
January 22 - Zulu troops massacre British troops at the Battle of Isandlwana. At Ro ...
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1838 was a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar).
1838 - Events.
January 6 - Samuel Morse first publicly demonstrates the telegraph.
January 8 - Alfred Vail demonstrates a telegraph using dots and dashes (this is the forerunner of Morse code)
January 12 - Joseph Smith, Jr. and Sidney Rigdon flee Ohio for Missouri
March 7 – Jenny Lind, the "Sw ...
1940 (MCMXL) was a leap year starting on Monday (link will take you to calendar).
1940 - Births.
See also Category:1940 births
January 4 - Brian David Josephson, Welsh physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
January 4 - Gao Xingjian, Chinese-born writer, Nobel Prize laureate
January 6 - Penny Lernoux, American journalist and author (d. 1989)
January 14 - Julian Bond, American civil rights activist
January 20 - Carol Heiss, American figure skater
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1933 (MCMXXXIII) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar).
1933 - Events.
January 3 - Japanese troops occupy Shanghai
January 5 - Construction of the Golden Gate Bridge begins in San Francisco Bay.
January 15 - Political violence has caused almost 100 deaths in Spain
January 17 - US Congress votes favorable for Philippines independence, against the view of president Hoover
January 30 - Edouard Daladier forms a government i ...
1936 (MCMXXXVI) was a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will take you to calendar).
1936 - Events.
January 7-10 - Second Italo-Abyssinian War: In the Battle of Ganale Doria, General Graziani attacks troops under Ras Desta Damtew guarding southern Ethiopia; after over three days of slaughter, the Ethiopians break and flee.
January 15 - The first building to be completely covered in glass is completed in Toledo, Ohio, for the Owens-Illinois Glass Company.
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