The August 21st is the 233e Jour of the Année (234e in the event of Leap year) of the Gregorian Calendrier.

Events

1 to 1900

• 1192 : Minamoto No Yoritomo becomes Seii Taishōgun with the Japan.

• 1389 : Solemn entry of the news Queen of France, Isabeau of Bavaria, in Paris.
• 1680 : The Indians Pueblo seize Santa Fe then conquered by the Spaniards.
• 1770 : The navigator James Cook asserts is Australia, which it names Nouvelles Wales of the South, for the Great Britain.
• 1842 : Foundation of the town of Hobart in Tasmanie.
• 1888 : First calculating machine William Seward Burroughs.

20th century

• 1911 : Flight of the famous table of the Mona Lisa; it will be found in 1913.

• 1944: Beginning of the conference of Dumbarton Oaks, premise of UNO.
• 1957 : First flight successful for the rocket Soviet R7, more known under the name of Semiorka, always used today.
• 1959 : The president Dwight Eisenhower proclaims Hawaii 50e State of the Union.
• 1971 : The militant of the Black Panther George Jackson is killed in prison.
• 1986 : Pollutant gases resulting from the ic lake Volcan Nyos kill: 1746 people with the Cameroun
• 1987: The group of rock'n'roll Guns Pink publishes Appetite for Destruction.
• 1991 : The Latvia proclaims its independence of the Soviet Union. Failure of the coup d'etat against Mikhail Gorbachev.
• 1993 : NASA loses the contact with the Martian probe Mars To observe.
• 1998 : The former Prime Minister Alain Juppe and the former minister Michel Roussin are put in examination in the business of the fictional jobs of the Town of Paris.
• 2000 : Norwegian plungers reach the Russian submarine Koursk, but the crew already died.

21e century

• 2001 : NATO decides to send troops in Macedonia.

• 2002 : Canadian the Prime Minister Jean Chrétien announces that it will not aspire to his succession.
• 2004 : With the Bangladesh, an attack with the grenade against the principal party of the League Awami fact 22 dead; its president Sheikh Hasina is wounded.
• 2005 : The Pope Benoît XVI celebrates the closing mass of JMJ in front of more than one million young people Catholiques of the world with Marienfeld, Germany at the time of the {{XXe}} world Journée of youth.

Births

• 1165 : Philippe II Auguste, king of France († July 14th 1223)

• 1567: Saint François Dirty with Thorens-Glières († December 18th 1622)
• 1665: Giacomo Filippo Maraldi, mathematician and astronomer French († February 1st 1729)
• 1765: Guillaume IV, king of the United Kingdom and king de Hanovre of 1830 to 1837 († June 21st 1837)
• 1789: Augustin Louis Cauchy, French mathematician, († May 23rd 1857)
• 1816: Charles Frederic Gerhardt, French chemist († August 19th 1856)
• 1826: Karl Gegenbaur, German anatomist († June 14th 1903)
• 1858: Rodolphe of Habsbourg-Lorraine, archduke of Austria († January 30th 1889)
• 1862: Emilio Salgari, Italian writer
• 1872: Aubrey Beardsley, British illustrator († March 16th 1898)
• 1892: Charles Vanel, French actor († April 15th 1989)
• 1904: Count Basie, pianist and leader of American Jazz († April 26th 1984)
• 1906: Marcel Bleustein-Strainer, French publicity agent.
• 1925 : Maurice Pialat, French film producer († January 11th 2003)
• 1930:
• Margaret Pink Windsor (Margaret Princess of Great Britain) († February 9th 2002)
• Manolo Vázquez, Spanish Matador († August 14th 2005).
• 1936 : Wilt Chamberlain, basketball player states-unien († October 12th 1999)
• 1944: Peter Weir, realizer of Australian cinema
• 1945:
• Claude Ancion, Belgian politician of French language
• Gerard Manset, song writer and performer, painter, photographer and novelist French
• 1946: Guy Coëme, Belgian politician of French language
• 1947: Frederic Mitterrand, writer, realizer the documentary ones and films of cinema and TV host French.
• 1950 : Patrick Juvet, type-setter and singer French.
• 1952 : Joe Strummer, singer and British guitarist of the group The Clash († December 22nd 2002)
• 1954: Humbert Balsan, producing French.
• 1956 : Kim Cattrall, actress britannico - Canadian
• 1963: Mohammed VI, king of Morocco
• 1967: Carrie-Anne Moss, Canadian actress
• 1971: Djamel Bouras, Judo ka French
• 1973: Robert Malm, free-Togolese footballer
• 1984: Geostrophic, French singer
• 1989: Hayden Panettiere, American actress

Death

•    784: Holy Albéric, monk Benedictine Dutch, bishop of Utrecht.

• 1131 : Baudouin of the Borough, king de Jérusalem, Baudouin II.
• 1153 : Bernard de Clairvaux, Christian theologist (° 1090)
• 1229: Iwo Odrowąż, bishop of Cracow.
• 1271 : Alphonse of Poitiers, count of Poitiers and Toulouse (° November 11th 1220).
• 1293 : Pierre d' Abernon, Anglo-Norman poet.
• 1581 : Sakuma Nobumori, Japanese samuraï (° 1527)
• 1614: Erzsébet Báthory, Hungarian serial killer (° 1560)
• 1689: William Cleland, Scottish poet (° towards 1661)
• 1799: Johann Julius Walbaum, Doctor and German Naturalist (° June 30th 1724).
• 1814 : Benjamin Thompson, physicist states-unien (° March 26th 1753).
• 1836 : Claude Navier, scientific French, who gave his name to the Navier-Stokes equations (° February 15th 1786).
• 1838 : Adelbert von Chamisso, poet and German Botanist of French origin (° January 30th 1781).
• 1935 : John Hartley, British player of Tennis , winner twice of the Tournament of Wimbledon, in 1879 and 1880. (° January 9th 1849).
• 1940 : Leon Trotsky, Russian political personality, dies in the attack of Mexico City of the day before. (° November 7th 1879).
• 1943 : Henrik Pontoppidan, Danish writer, Nobel Prize of literature in 1917 (° July 24th 1857).
• 1973 : Jacques Datin, Type-setter and pianist French (° 1920 with Saint-Lo, Handle).
• 1991 : Costanzo W. Figlinesi, 79 years, Italian painter. (° 1912).
• 1995 : Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, Indian astrophysicist (° October 19th 1910).
• 2003 : Wesley Willis, American musician (° May 31st 1963).
• 2005 :
• Robert Moog, inventor of the synthetizer of the same name (° May 23rd 1934).
• Zbigniew Dłubak, painter and photographer Polish (° April 26th 1921)
• 2007: Caroline Aigle, first woman fighter pilot Frenchwoman. (° September 12th 1974)

Celebrations

Catholic and orthodoxe saints of the day

• Christophe de Lycie (recent date in Occident)
• Privat de Mende (+ 257), bishop martyr.

Catholic saints of the day

• Jeanne de Chantal (+ 1641)
• Noémie
• Hombeline
• Ombeline

See too

• August 21st in sport
• August 21st in the railroads

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