History Events on August 21

Tiger Woods, American professional golfer, wins the 82nd PGA Championship and becomes the first golfer since Ben Hogan in 1953 to win three majors in a calendar year.

#Tiger_Woods

James Anderson Jr. posthumously receives the first Medal of Honor to be awarded to an African American U.S. Marine.

#James_Anderson_Jr.

Royal Air Maroc Flight 630 crashes in Douar Izounine, Morocco, killing all 44 people on board.

#Royal_Air_Maroc_Flight_630

Six hundred American school teachers, Thomasites, arrived in Manila on the USAT Thomas.

#Thomasites

An F5 tornado strikes Rochester, Minnesota, leading to the creation of the Mayo Clinic.

#1883_Rochester_tornado

Oldsmobile, an American automobile manufacturer and marque, is founded.

#Oldsmobile

Battle of Vimeiro: British and Portuguese forces led by General Arthur Wellesley defeat French force under Major-General Jean-Andoche Junot near the village of Vimeiro, Portugal, the first Anglo-Portuguese victory of the Peninsular War.

#Battle_of_Vimeiro

Coup attempt against Mikhail Gorbachev collapses.

#1991_Soviet_coup_d'état_attempt

Lawrence, Kansas is destroyed by pro-Confederate guerrillas known as Quantrill's Raiders.

#Lawrence,_Kansas

James Cook formally claims eastern Australia for Great Britain, naming it New South Wales.

#James_Cook

World War I: The Battle of Charleroi, a successful German attack across the River Sambre that pre-empted a French offensive in the same area.

#World_War_I

Tlingit Indians destroy Fort Selkirk, Yukon Territory.

#Tlingit

The Soviet Union successfully conducts a long-range test flight of the R-7 Semyorka, the first intercontinental ballistic missile.

#Soviet_Union

Gap Inc. opened their first store in San Francisco, California.

#Gap_Inc.

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

#Mona_Lisa

NASA loses contact with the Mars Observer spacecraft.

#NASA

Atlantic Southeast Airlines Flight 529, an Embraer EMB 120 Brasilia, attempts to divert to West Georgia Regional Airport after the left engine fails, but the aircraft crashes in Carroll County near Carrollton, Georgia, killing nine of the 29 people on board.

#Atlantic_Southeast_Airlines_Flight_529

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

#Jarvis_Island

Physicist Harry Daghlian is fatally irradiated in a criticality accident during an experiment with the Demon core at Los Alamos National Laboratory.

#Harry_Daghlian

The Battle of Dunkeld in Scotland.

#Battle_of_Dunkeld

A solar eclipse traverses the continental United States.

#Solar_eclipse_of_August_21,_2017

The 6.9 Mw? Nepal earthquake shakes the Nepal-India border with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VIII (Severe), leaving 709-1,450 people killed and thousands injured.

#1988_Nepal_earthquake

Minamoto no Yoritomo becomes Sei-i Taish?gun and the de facto ruler of Japan. (Traditional Japanese date: the 12th day of the 7th month in the 3rd year of the Kenky? (??) era).

#Minamoto_no_Yoritomo

Hundreds of people are reported killed by chemical attacks in the Ghouta region of Syria.

#Ghouta_chemical_attack

United States President Dwight D. Eisenhower signs an executive order proclaiming Hawaii the 50th state of the union. Hawaii's admission is currently commemorated by Hawaii Admission Day.

#President_of_the_United_States

Lebanese Civil War: The first troops of a multinational force lands in Beirut to oversee the Palestine Liberation Organization's withdrawal from Lebanon.

#Lebanese_Civil_War

Xá L?i Pagoda raids: The Army of the Republic of Vietnam Special Forces loyal to Ngô ?ình Nhu, brother of President Ngo Dinh Diem, vandalizes Buddhist pagodas across the country, arresting thousands and leaving an estimated hundreds dead.

#Xá_L?i_Pagoda_raids

Cold War: Nicolae Ceau?escu, leader of Communist Romania, publicly condemns the Soviet-led Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia, encouraging the Romanian population to arm itself against possible Soviet reprisals.

#Cold_War

Song dynasty general Yue Fei defeats an army led by Jin dynasty general Wuzhu at the Battle of Yancheng during the Jin-Song Wars.

#Song_dynasty

Dumbarton Oaks Conference, prelude to the United Nations, begins.

#Dumbarton_Oaks_Conference

The closing ceremony of the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, takes place.

#2016_Summer_Olympics_closing_ceremony

The first of the Lincoln-Douglas debates is held in Ottawa, Illinois.

#Lincoln-Douglas_debates

World War II: Canadian and Polish units capture the strategically important town of Falaise, Calvados, France.

#Operation_Tractable

Latvia declares renewal of its full independence after its occupation by the Soviet Union since 1945.

#Latvia

American Revolutionary War: British forces begin besieging the French outpost at Pondichéry.

#American_Revolutionary_War

The first successful adding machine in the United States is patented by William Seward Burroughs.

#Adding_machine

King Stefan Uroš III, after months of anarchy, surrenders to his son and rival Stefan Dušan, who succeeds as King of Serbia.

#Stefan_De?anski

Carbon dioxide gas erupts from volcanic Lake Nyos in Cameroon, killing up to 1,800 people within a 20-kilometer range.

#Volcano

Inglourious Basterds, a war film written and directed by Quentin Tarantino and starring Brad Pitt, is released in American theaters to critical and popular acclaim.

Philippine opposition leader Benigno Aquino, Jr. is assassinated at the Manila International Airport (now renamed Ninoy Aquino International Airport in his honor).

A bomb exploded in the Liberal Party campaign rally in Plaza Miranda, Manila, Philippines with several anti-Marcos political candidates injured.

Motown releases what would be its first #1 hit (in America), "Please Mr. Postman" by The Marvelettes.

American country music singer Patsy Cline returns to record producer Owen Bradley's studio in Nashville, Tennessee to record her vocals to Willie Nelson's "Crazy", which would become her signature song.

World War II: The Guadalcanal Campaign: American forces defeat an attack by Imperial Japanese Army soldiers in the Battle of the Tenaru.

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

Nat Turner leads black slaves and free blacks in a rebellion in Southampton County, Virginia, which will claim the lives of 55 to 65 whites and about twice that number of blacks.

Jean-Baptiste Bernadotte, Marshal of France, is elected Crown Prince of Sweden by the Swedish Riksdag of the Estates.

A Vodou ceremony, led by Dutty Boukman, turns into a violent slave rebellion, beginning the Haitian Revolution.

King Gustav III completes his coup d'état by adopting a new Constitution, ending half a century of parliamentary rule in Sweden and installing himself as an enlightened despot.

Pueblo Indians capture Santa Fe from the Spanish during the Pueblo Revolt.

Henry the Navigator leads Portuguese forces to victory over the Marinids at the Battle of Ceuta.

Eraclus becomes the 25th bishop of Liège.