SomeFacts | August 21

On this day - August 21

959 — Eraclus becomes the 25th bishop of Liège.

1140 — Song dynasty general Yue Fei defeats an army led by Jin ...

1169 — Battle of the Blacks: Uprising by the black African forces of ...

1192 — Minamoto no Yoritomo becomes Sei-i Taishōgun and the de facto ...

1331 — King Stefan Uroš III, after months of anarchy, surrenders to ...

1415 — Henry the Navigator leads Portuguese forces to victory over ...

1680 — Pueblo Indians capture Santa Fe from the Spanish during the ...

1689 — The Battle of Dunkeld in Scotland.

1716 — Seventh Ottoman–Venetian War: The arrival of naval ...

1770 — James Cook formally claims eastern Australia for Great ...

1772 — King Gustav III completes his coup d'état by adopting a ...

1778 — American Revolutionary War: British forces begin besieging the ...

1791 — Enslaved Africans in Saint-Domingue, led by Dutty Boukman, ...

1808 — Battle of Vimeiro: British and Portuguese forces led by ...

1810 — Jean-Baptiste Bernadotte, Marshal of France, is elected Crown ...

1821 — Jarvis Island is discovered by the crew of the ship, Eliza ...

1831 — Nat Turner leads black slaves and free blacks in a rebellion ...

1852 — Tlingit Indians destroy Fort Selkirk, Yukon Territory.

1858 — The first of the Lincoln–Douglas debates is held in Ottawa, ...

1862 — The Stadtpark, the first public park in Vienna, opens to the ...

1863 — Lawrence, Kansas is destroyed by pro-Confederate guerrillas ...

1878 — The American Bar Association is founded in Saratoga Springs, ...

1879 — The locals of Knock, County Mayo, Ireland report their having ...

1883 — An F5 tornado strikes Rochester, Minnesota, leading to the ...

1888 — The first successful adding machine in the United States is ...

1901 — Six hundred American school teachers, Thomasites, arrived in ...

1911 — The Mona Lisa is stolen by Vincenzo Peruggia, a Louvre ...

1914 — World War I: The Battle of Charleroi, a successful German ...

1918 — World War I: The Second Battle of the Somme begins.

1942 — World War II: The Guadalcanal campaign: American forces defeat ...

1944 — World War II: Canadian and Polish units capture the ...

1944 — Dumbarton Oaks Conference, prelude to the United Nations, ...

1945 — Physicist Harry Daghlian is fatally irradiated in a ...

1957 — The Soviet Union successfully conducts a long-range test ...

1959 — United States President Dwight D. Eisenhower signs an ...

1963 — Xá Lợi Pagoda raids: The Army of the Republic of Vietnam ...

1965 — The Socialist Republic of Romania is proclaimed, following the ...

1968 — James Anderson Jr. posthumously receives the first Medal of ...

1968 — Cold War: Nicolae Ceaușescu, leader of the Socialist Republic ...

1971 — A bomb exploded in the Liberal Party campaign rally in Plaza ...

1982 — Lebanese Civil War: The first troops of a multinational force ...

1983 — Philippine opposition leader Benigno Aquino Jr. is ...

1986 — Carbon dioxide gas erupts from volcanic Lake Nyos in Cameroon, ...

1988 — The 6.9 Mw Nepal earthquake shakes the Nepal–India border with ...

1991 — Coup attempt against Mikhail Gorbachev collapses.

1991 — Latvia declares renewal of its full independence after its ...

1993 — NASA loses contact with the Mars Observer spacecraft.

1994 — Royal Air Maroc Flight 630 crashes in Douar Izounine, Morocco, ...

1995 — Atlantic Southeast Airlines Flight 529, an Embraer EMB 120 ...

2000 — American golfer Tiger Woods wins the 82nd PGA Championship and ...

2013 — Hundreds of people are reported killed by chemical attacks in ...

2017 — A solar eclipse traverses the continental United States.