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August 21

A Wisdom Archive on August 21

August 21

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ARTICLES RELATED TO August 21

August 21: Encyclopedia - 1967

1967 (MCMLXVII) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. 1967 - Events. 1967 - January. January 2 - Charlie Chaplin opens his last film, A Countess From Hong Kong in England. January 4 - Algerian revolutionary Mohammed Khider is shot in Madrid. January 6 - Vietnam War: USMC and ARVN troops launch "Operation Deckhouse Five" in the Mekong River delta. January 10 - Segregationist Lester Maddo ...

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August 21: Encyclopedia - 1959

1959 (MCMLIX) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. It is also a song by The Sisters of Mercy on the album Floodland. 1959 - Events. 1959 - January. January 1 - Cultivars of plants named after this date must be named in a modern language, not in Latin. January 1 - Cuba: Fulgencio Batista flees Havana when forces of Fidel Castro advance. January 2 - CBS Radio cuts four soap operas: Backstage ...

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August 21: Encyclopedia - White Wolf Inc.

White Wolf, Inc. is an American gaming company, most famous for the Vampire: The Masquerade roleplaying game. The company was founded in 1991 by Mark Rein-Hagen and Steve and Stewart Wieck. Taking their name from the fiction of Michael Moorcock, they have become one of the world's most successful role-playing game companies. White Wolf publishes a line of several different but overlapping games set in the "World of Darkness", which generally resembles our world with added supernatural elements, and whose tone i ...

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August 21: Encyclopedia - 1836

Canada - Mexico - South Africa - U.S. Rail Transport - Science - Sports Births - Deaths 1836 was a leap year starting on Friday (see link for calendar). 1836 - Events. January - Book by Maria Monk claims that she was sexually exploited in a Canadian convent February 3 - United States Whig Party holds its first convention in Albany, New York. February 23 - The siege of the Alamo begins in San Antonio, Texas. February 24 - Samuel Colt receives a pat ...

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August 21: Encyclopedia - Westboro Baptist Church

Westboro Baptist Church is an organisation based in Topeka, Kansas, headed by minister Fred Waldron Phelps, Sr. and notorious for running godhatesfags.com and other websites expressing its condemnation of various groups, (see "WBC Websites" below). Although its members identify themselves as Baptists, the church is not affiliated with any known Baptist conventions or associations (however, there are numerous independent Baptist churches throughout the United States that are unaffiliated with such groups). The church describes itself a ...

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August 21: Encyclopedia - 1798

1798 in topic: Arts Architecture - Literature - Music Other topics Canada - Mexico - Science Lists of leaders: Colonial governors - State leaders From Categories: births - deaths 1798 was a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). 1798 - Events. January 22 - Coupe d'état in the Netherlands (Batavian Republic). Unitarian De ...

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August 21: Encyclopedia - Bernard of Clairvaux

Saint Bernard of Clairvaux (Fontaines, near Dijon, 1090 – August 21, 1153 in Clairvaux) was a French abbot and theologian who was the main voice of conservatism during the intellectual revival of Western Europe called the Renaissance of the 12th century. The voice of conscience, the dominating figure in the Christian church from 1125 to 1153 (Cantor 1993), he was declared a Doctor of the Church in 1830. Bernard is a saint of the Anglican and Roman Catholic Churches and was the ...

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August 21: Encyclopedia - 1796

1796 in topic: Arts Architecture - Literature - Music Other topics Canada - Mexico - Science Lists of leaders: Colonial governors - State leaders From Categories: births - deaths 1796 was a leap year starting on Friday. (see link for calendar) 1796 - Events. January 16 - First Dutch (and general) elections for the National A ...

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August 21: Encyclopedia - Hawaii

Daniel Akaka (D) Hawaii (Hawaiian/Hawaiian English: Hawaiʻi, with the ʻokina; also, historically, the Sandwich Islands) is the archipelago of the Hawaiian Islands in the Pacific Ocean. Admitted on August 21, 1959, Hawaii constitutes the 50th state of the United States and is situated 2500 miles from the mainland. It is the southernmost part of that country. As of the 2000 U.S. Census it had a population of 1,211,537 people. Honolu ...

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August 21: Encyclopedia - Rainbow Warrior

Rainbow Warrior is the name of a series of ships operated by Greenpeace. The first ship was sunk by the French secret service (DGSE) in Auckland harbour, New Zealand, on 10 July 1985. The current ship using the name was launched in 1989. Rainbow Warrior - The first Rainbow Warrior. The first Rainbow Warrior, a craft of 40 metres and 418 tonnes, was originally the MAFF trawler Sir William Hardy, launched in 1955. She was acquired for £40,000 and was renovated over four months, th ...

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August 21: Encyclopedia - 1271

For broader historical context, see 1270s and 13th century. 1271 - Events. 1271 - Europe. July 2 - Kings Otakar II of Bohemia and Stephen V of Hungary sign the first Peace of Pressburg, settling territorial claims following the failed invasion of Hungary by Otakar II. September 1 - Pope Gregory X is elected pope by compromise between French and Italian cardinals, ending a three-year conclave, the longest ever. The County of Toulouse is returned to the cro ...

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August 21: Encyclopedia - 1614

1614 - Births. January 1 - John Wilkins, English clergyman (d. 1672) January 5 - Archduke Leopold Wilhelm of Austria, Governor of the Spanish Netherlands (d. 1662) July 10 - Arthur Annesley, 1st Earl of Anglesey, English royalist statesman (d. 1686) December 16 - Eberhard III, Duke of Württemberg (d. 1674 1614 - Month/day unknown. Franciscus Sylvius, German scientist who first distilled beverage alcohol (d. 1672) ...

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August 21: Encyclopedia - Battle of Normandy

The Battle of Normandy was fought in 1944 between the German forces occupying Western Europe and the invading Allied forces as part of the larger conflict of World War II. Sixty years later, the Normandy invasion, codenamed Operation OVERLORD, remains the largest seaborne invasion in history, involving almost three million troops crossing the English Channel from England to Normandy in then German-occupied France. The main Allied forces came from the United States, United Kingdom and Canada, but a total of twelve nations contributed units, the rest being Australia, Belgium, Czechoslovakia, France, ...

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August 21: Encyclopedia - 1789

1789 in topic: Arts Architecture - Literature - Music Other topics Canada - Mexico - Science Lists of leaders: Colonial governors - State leaders From Categories: births - deaths 1789 was a common year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar). 1789 - Events. January 7 - First nationwide United States election January 2 ...

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August 21: Encyclopedia - World War I

World War I, also known as the First World War, the Great War, the War of the Nations and the War to End All Wars, was a world conflict lasting from 1914 to 1919, with the fighting lasting until 1918. The label World War I or First World War did not come into general use until after the outbreak of World War II in 1939, and until then it was known as the Great War or the World War. The war was fought by the Allied Powers on one side, and the Central Powers on the other. No ...

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August 21: Encyclopedia - Wesley Willis

Wesley Willis (May 31, 1963 – August 21, 2003) was a 6 ft 6 in, 350 lb. African American musician from Chicago, Illinois diagnosed schizophrenic who gained a rather large underground following in the 1990s as a musician after releasing several hundred songs of bizarre and simplistic music which became internet phenomena during the early days of P2P file sharing. Wesley Willis - Biography. Willis and his siblings spent most of their childhoods in various foster homes. In 1989, Willis began hearing "demon v ...

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August 21: Encyclopedia - 1862

Canada - Mexico - South Africa - U.S. Rail Transport - Science - Sports Births - Deaths 1862 was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). 1862 - Events. 1862 - January-March. January 1 - Britain annexes Lagos island in modern-day Nigeria January 10 - End of term for John Gately Downey, 7th Governor of California. He is succeeded by Amasa Leland Stanford. January 30 - The first American ironclad warship, the ...

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August 21: Encyclopedia - 1904

1904 (MCMIV) is a leap year starting on a Friday (link will take you to calendar). 1904 - Events. 1904 - January-March. January 7 - The distress signal CQD is established only to be replaced two years later by SOS. February 7 - The Great Baltimore Fire in Baltimore, Maryland destroys over 1,500 buildings in 30 hours. February 8 - Japanese surprise attack on Port Arthur (Lushun) starts Russo-Japanese War February 10 – Roger Casement publi ...

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August 21: Encyclopedia - 1153

1153 - Events. January 6 - Henry of Anjou arrives in England. May 24 - Malcolm IV becomes King of Scotland. July 9 - Anastasius IV becomes pope. November 6 - Treaty of Winchester. Theobald of Bec reconciles Stephen of England and Matilda, ending "The Anarchy" and allowing Matilda's son Henry of Anjou to succeed as king (in 1154). The Angevin dynasty takes control of Gascony and Guyenne. Andronicus Comnenus is imprisoned for conspiring against Byzantine emperor Ma ...

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  • 1153 - Deaths

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August 21: Encyclopedia - Tycho Brahe

Tycho Brahe, born Tyge Ottesen Brahe (December 14, 1546 – October 24, 1601), was a Danish nobleman astrologer and astronomer as well as an alchemist. He was granted an estate on the island of Hven and the funding to build the Uraniborg, an early research institute, where he built large astronomical instruments and took many careful measurements. As an astronomer, Tycho worked to combine what he saw as the geometrical benefits of the Copernican system with the philosophical benefits of the Ptolemaic system into his own model o ...

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August 21: Encyclopedia - 1908

1908 (MCMVIII) is a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will take you to calendar). 1908 - Events. 1908 - January-February. January 1 - British Harry Bensley leaves for his would-be trip around the world pushing a pram and wearing an iron mask, beginning from the Trafalgar Square January 1 - A ball signifying New Year's Day drops in New York City's Times Square for the first time January 8 - A train collision occurs in ...

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August 21: Encyclopedia - 1943

1943 (MCMXLIII) is a common year starting on Friday. 1943 - Events. 1943 - January. January 4 - End of term for Culbert Olson, 29th Governor of California. He is succeeded by Earl Warren. January 11 - The United States and United Kingdom give up territorial rights in China. January 11 - General Juanto dies in Argentina - Ramón Castillo succeeds him January 12 - Jan Campert, Dutch journalist and writer, dies in Neuengamme concentration cam ...

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