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2005-08-21

On this day in History - Aug 21

0230 - Eleito o Papa Ponciano, 18º papa.
1157 - King Alfonso VII of Castile dies (b. 1104/5)
1153 - Bernard of Clairvaux dies. Christian theologian
1165 - King Philip II of France was born (d. 1223)
1192 - Minamoto Yoritomo becomes Seii Tai Shōgun and the de facto ruler of Japan. (Traditional Japanese date: July 12, 1192)
1415 - As tropas portugueses sob o comando do Rei D. João I, desembarcam em Ceuta.
1535 - Shimazu Yoshihiro was born (d. 1619). Japanese samurai and warlord
1567 - San Francisco de Sales was born (d. 28 Dez 1622). French saint.
1581 - Sakuma Nobumori dies (b. 1527). Japanese retainer and samurai
1614 - Elizabeth Báthory dies. Serial killer
1643 - Afonso VI de Portugal was born (d. 1683). King of Portugal ("O Vitorioso").
1660 - Hubert Gautier was born (d. 1737). French scientist and civil engineer
1665 - Giacomo F. Maraldi was born (d. 1729). French-Italian astronomer
1670 - James Fitz James, 1st Duke of Berwick was born (d. 1734). French military leader
1680 - Pueblo Indians capture Santa Fe from Spanish during the Pueblo Revolt
1689 - William Cleland dies. Scottish poet and soldier
1754 - William Murdoch was born (d. 1839). Scottish inventor
1762 - Lady Mary Wortley Montagu dies (b. 1689). English writer
1765 - William IV of the United Kingdom was born (d. 1837)
1770 - James Cook formally claims eastern Australia for Great Britain, naming it New South Wales.
1772 - The coup d'etat by King Gustav III is completed by adopting a new Constitution, ending halfa century of parliamentary rule in Sweden and creating him an enlightened despot.
1789 - Augustin Louis Cauchy was born (d. 1857). French mathematician
1808 - Batalha do Vimeiro, em Portugal na qual o exército de Napoleão comandado pelo General Junot foi derrotado pelo exército anglo-luso do General Wellesley (futuro duque de Wellington)
1810 - O general francês Bernadotte, marechal do Império, é escolhido para herdeiro da coroa da sueca. A dinastia que fundou ainda reina na Suécia.
1811 - William Kelly was born (d. 1888). Iron manufacturer, inventor.
1813 - Jean Stas was born (d. 1891). Belgian chemist
1814 - Benjamin Thompson dies (b. 1753). American physicist and inventor
1816 - Charles Frédéric Gerhardt was born (d. 1856). French chemist
1821 - Nasce, em Crrentes, Piauí, Brasil, João Lustosa da Cunha. Marquês de Paranaguá II, (m. 9 Fev 1912) . Magistrado abolicionista, Presidente do Piauí, Maranhão, Pernambuco e Bahia.
1822 - O Banco de Lisboa abre as portas ao público.
1826 - Karl Gegenbaur was born (d. 1903). German anatomist.
1827 - William Blake dies. English poet and painter
1831 - Nat Turner leads slave revolt in Southampton County, Virginia
1838 - Adelbert von Chamisso dies (b. 1781). German writer
1841 - The venetian blind is first patented in the United States by John Hampson.
1842 - The city of Hobart, Tasmania, is founded.
1852 - Tlingit Indians destroy Fort Selkirk, Yukon Territory
1853 - Morre Maria Quitéria (de Jesus Medeiros) (n. 27 Jul 1792) Brasil Patriota, luta no Exército Libertador disfarçada de homem - a primeira mulher soldado brasileira.
1856 - America's first consul to Japan, Townsend Harris, arrives in Shimoda. (Traditional Japanese date: July 21, 1856)
1856 - Se pone a la venta en la provincia de Corrientes, Argentina, la primera estampilla argentina.
1858 - The Lincoln-Douglas debates begin
1862 - The Vienna Stadtpark opens its gates.
1862 - Emilio Salgari was born. Italian novelist. Author of books of adventures
1863 - Lawrence, Kansas is destroyed by Confederate guerillas Quantrill's Raiders in the Lawrence Massacre.
1872 - Aubrey Beardsley was born (d. 1898). English illustrator.
1876 - Leon Trotsky dies. Russian revolutionary
1879 - The Virgin Mary, along with St. Joseph and St. John the Evangelist reportedly appear to the people of Knock, County Mayo, Ireland.
1887 - Inauguração na cidade do México de um monumento ao último imperador dos índios aztecas, Guatimozín (ou Cuauhtemoc).
1888 - The first successful adding machine in the United States was patented by William Seward Burroughs.
1891 - Nace en Buenos Aires, Argentina, el pintor e ilustrador de temas rurales Florencio Molina Campos.
1894 - Morte do jornalista e escritor português Joaquim Pedro de Oliveira Martins
1895 - Nasce Dionélio Machado. Escritor brasileiro
1898 - Fundado, no Rio de Janeiro, o Clube de Regatas Vasco da Gama.
1901 - É fundada a Cadillac Motor Company em Detroit, no Michigan, EUA, designada com o nome do explorador francês Antoine Cadillac.
1904 - William "Count" Basie was born (d, 1984). Bandleader.
1906 - Friz Freleng was born (d. 1995). Movie animator
1908 - M. M. Kaye was born (d. 2004). British writer
1911 - Foi promulgada a Constituição de 1911, que instituiu o regime republicano em Portugal.
1911 - O quadro de Leonardo da Vinci Mona Lisa é roubado do Louvre, em Paris, sendo recuperado dois anos mais tarde.
1914 - Primeira Guerra Mundial: os alemães ganham a Batalha das Ardenas, na França
1920 - Christopher Robin Milne was born (d. 1996). English son of A. A. Milne
1921 - Milton Ribeiro was born (d. 1972). Brazilian actor
1923 - Shimon Peres was born. Prime Minister of Israel
1924 - Chris Schenkel was born. Sports journalist
1924 - Jack Weston was born (d. 1996). Actor.
1925 - Maurice Pialat was born (d. 2003). French actor and director.
1928 - Art Farmer was born (d. 1999). Trumpet player
1930 - Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon was born (d. 2002)
1932 - Melvin Van Peebles was born. Actor, screenwriter
1933 - Janet Baker was born. English mezzo-soprano
1936 - Wilt Chamberlain was born (d. 1999). Basketball Hall of Famer
1938 - Kenny Rogers was born. Singer, actor
1939 - Clarence Williams III was born. Actor
1939 - James Burton was born. Rock guitarist
1940 - Ernest Lawrence Thayer dies. Poet
1943 - Henrik Pontoppidan dies. Danish writer. 1917 Nobel Prize in Literature laureate.
1944 - Jackie DeShannon was born. Singer
1944 - Peter Weir was born. Film director
1944 - Dumbarton Oaks Conference, prelude to the United Nations, begins.
1946 - El Senado de la Nación Argentina aprueba el proyecto de ley sobre Derechos Políticos de la Mujer, que establece el voto femenino.
1947 - Ettore Bugatti dies (b. 1881). Automobile manufacturer
1951 - Constant Lambert dies.English composer
1952 - Joe Strummer was born (d. 2002). British musician, guitarist/vocalist with The Clash 1954 - Ivan Stang was born. Founder of the Church of the SubGenius
1956 - Kim Cattrall was born. Actress
1957 - Harald Ulrik Sverdrup dies (b. 15 Nov 1888). Norwegian meteorologist and oceanographer
1959 - Jim McMahon was born. National Football League quarterback
1959 - President Eisenhower signed an executive order proclaiming Hawaii the 50th state of the union.
1960 - A OEA aprova medidas condenatórias do regime de Héctor Trujillo, ao ser provada a cumplicidade dominicana no atentado contra o presidente venezuelano Rómulo Betancourt.
1960 - David Barnard Steinman dies (b. 1886). American civil engineer and bridge designer (b. 1886)
1962 -Em Portugal, através de decreto-lei são criados os estatutos gerais de Angola
e Moçambique.
1963 - Mohammed VI of Morocco was born
1967 - Carrie-Anne Moss was born. Actress
1967 - Serj Tankian was born. Singer for System of a Down
1968 - Soviet Union-dominated Warsaw Pact troops invade Czechoslovakia.
1969 - Uma junta militar assume o poder no Brasil quando o presidente Costa e Silva sofre uma trombose cerebral.
1969 - Josée Chouinard, Canadian figure skater
1970 - O tufão "Anita" devasta o sul e oeste do Japão.
1971 - Black Panther George Jackson is shot and killed in the prison yard at California's San Quentin prison.
1971 - Golpe militar na Bolívia - Hugo Banzer torna-se presidente
1975 - Alicia (Roanne) Witt was born in Worcester, Massachusetts. American actress "Dune"
1976 - Operation Paul Bunyan at Panmunjeom, Korea
1976 - Muere el poeta, escritor, periodista y académico de Letras José Luis Lanuza. Presidió la Sociedad Argentina de Escritores.
1978 - Charles Eames dies. American designer and architect
1978 - Jason Marquis was born. Major League Baseball pitcher
1978 - Reuben Droughns was born. American football player
1982 - Sobhuza II dies. King of Swaziland
1983 - Benigno S. Aquino Jr. dies. Philippine opposition leader
1983 - O líder da oposição filipina Benigno Aquino é morto, no Aeroporto de Manila,
quando descia do avião. A revolta contra este assassinato levou à queda do regime de Ferdinand Marcos, e a nomeação de Corazon Aquino, viúva do chefe da oposição, para presidente das Filipinas.
1984 - Alizée was born. French singer
1986 - Toxic gas erupts from volcanic Lake Nyos in Cameroon, killing over 1700 people.
1986 - Morre Alexandre Manuel Vahia de Castro O'Neill de Bolhões (n. 19 Dez 1924). Poeta português cultivou uma poesia lúdica e subversiva, sentimental e sarcástica, cheia de desencanto e humor.
1987 - Hard rock band Guns 'N Roses release their classic debut Appetite for
Destruction
.
1988 - Ray Eames was born. American designer
1989 - Morre Raul (de Santos) Seixas (n. 28 Jun 1945). Poeta e músico de rock brasileiro.
1989 - Hayden Panettiere was born. Actress.
1991 - Latvia declares its full independence from the Soviet Union.
1991 - Coup attempt against Mikhail Gorbachev collapses.
1993 - The United States lost contact with the Mars Observer spacecraft.
1993 - Tatiana Troyanos dies. American opera singer.
1994 - O Partido Revolucionário Institucional (PRI) e seu candidato, Ernesto Zedillo, ganham as eleições legislativas e presidenciais no México.
1995 - Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar dies (b. 1910). Indian-American astrophysicist, 1983 Nobel Prize laureate.
1997 - Norris Bradbury dies. Physicist
1997 - Misael Pastrana Borrero dies. President of Colombia.
1998 - The United States destroys a pharmaceutical plant (erroneously believed to be a chemical weapons plant) in Sudan.
2001 - NATO decides to send a peace-keeping force to the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia.
2001 - A sixth-century temple is discovered in central Mexico.
2001 - The Red Cross announces that a famine is striking Tajikistan, and calls for international financial aid for Tajikistan and Uzbekistan.
2002 - Jean Chrétien, Prime Minister of Canada, announces that he will not seek re-election and would resign within eighteen months.
2003 - Kathy Wilkes dies. Oxford philosopher and education worker in Eastern Europe
2003 - Wesley Willis dies. Musician
2004 - Grenade attack on Bangladesh Awamee League, the bigest political party in this country. Party precident Sheikh Hasina was injured. Total 22 Died, more than 1000 injure
Argentina: Dia del filatelista


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