21 August

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The 21st o August is the 233rd day o the year (234t in lowp years) in the Gregorian Calendar, wi 132 days bidin.

Events

1526 - Spaingie splorer Alonso de Salazar reaches the present-day Marshall Islands.
1689 - Battle o Dunkeld: Held durin the Jocobite risin o 1689, Jacobite clans supportin the deposit James VII, Keeng o Scots are defeatit bi Covenanters supportive o William II, Keeng o Scots.
1728 - In the nou-named Bering Sea, Vitus Bering discovers Saunt Lawrence Island.
1770 - James Cook formally claims the east coast o Australie for Great Breetain, namin it New Sooth Wales.
1821 - Jarvis Island in the Sooth Paceefic Ocean is discoverit.
1842 - The ceety o Hobart, Tasmanie, Australie, is foondit.
1911 - The Mona Lisa, bi Leonardo da Vinci, is stolen frae the Louvre in Paris.
1918 - Warld War I: The Seicont Battle o the Somme stairts.
1940 - Roushie revolutionary Leon Trotsky dies in Mexico as a result o injuries frae an attack wi an ice-axe the day afore.
1959 - Hawaii becomes the 50t State o the Unitit States.
1968 - The Prague Spring Uprisin is crushed bi Warsaw Pact forces.
1983 - Filipino politeecian Benigno Aquino, Jr is murthert on his return frae exile.
1986 - Toxic gas escapes frae the volcanic Loch Nyos in Cameroon, killin 1,700 fowk.
1991 - The August Coup against Mikhail Gorbachev fails.
1991 - Latvie regains its unthirldom frae the Soviet Union.
1993 - NASA loses contact wi the Mars Observer spacecraft.
2010 - Close election in Australie atween Julia Gillard an Tony Abbott.
2013 - Chemical attacks in Ghouta, Sirie, kill 100s o fowk.
2016 - The 2016 Simmer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro end.
2017 - The American warship "USS John McCain" collides wi a merchant vessel near Singapore, killin 11 sailors.
2017 - A Solar eclipse occurs, wi totality runnin across the Contiguous Unitit States frae Oregon tae Sooth Carolina. Visibility o a pairtial eclipse reaches as far east as Scotland.
2019 - Brazil's Institute for Space Research reports a record nummer o fires burnin in the Amazon rainforest, wi 36,000 in the year up tae this date an smoke reachin as far sooth as Sao Paulo.