August 21
1680 - Pueblo Indians drove out the Spanish and took possession of Santa Fe, New Mexico.
1831 - Nat Turner led an insurrection of slaves in Virginia, resulting in the deaths of at least 55 whites; scores of Blacks were killed in retribution in the aftermath of the rebellion. (Turner was later captured and executed.)
1858 - The first of seven debates between Illinois senatorial candidates Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas took place.
1911 - The Mona Lisa was stolen from the Louvre museum in France by an Italian waiter, Vicenzo Perruggia. (The painting was recovered two years later.)
1940 - Russian revolutionary Leon Trotsky died in Mexico City.
1944 - The United States, Britain, the Soviet Union and China opened talks at Dumbarton Oaks in Washington that helped pave the way for establishment of the United Nations. (The talks concluded on October 7.)
1945 - President Harry S. Truman announced the end of the Lend-Lease Program.
1959 - Hawaii became the 50th state.
1983 - Corazon Aquino's husband Benigno, who was Philippine president Ferdinand Marcos's chief political opponent, was assassinated.
1991 - Latvia declared independence from the Soviet Union.
1991 - The hard-line coup against Soviet President Mikhail S. Gorbachev collapsed in the face of a popular uprising led by Russian Federation President Boris N. Yeltsin.
1992 - An 11-day siege began at the cabin of white separatist Randy Weaver in Ruby Ridge, Idaho, as government agents tried to arrest Weaver for failing to appear in court on charges of selling two illegal sawed-off shotguns; on the first day of the siege, Weaver's teenage son, Samuel, and Deputy U.S. Marshal William Degan were killed.
1993 - In a serious setback for NASA, engineers lost contact with the Mars Observer spacecraft as it was about to reach the red planet on a $980 million mission.
2000 - Rescue efforts to reach the sunken Russian nuclear submarine Kursk ended with divers announcing none of the 118 sailors had survived.
2010 - Iranian and Russian engineers began loading fuel into Iran’s first nuclear power plant, which Moscow promised to safeguard to prevent material at the site from being used in any potential weapons production.
2013 - An Army private now known as Chelsea Manning was sentenced at Fort Meade, Maryland, to up to 35 years in prison for spilling an unprecedented trove of government secrets. (The sentence for the former intelligence analyst was commuted by President Barack Obama in his final days in office.)
2015 - A trio of Americans, U.S. Air Force Staff Sgt. Spencer Stone, National Guardsman Alek Skarlatos and college student Anthony Sadler, and a British businessman, Chris Norman, tackled and disarmed a Moroccan gunman on a high-speed train between Amsterdam and Paris.
2017 - Americans witnessed their first full-blown coast-to-coast solar eclipse since World War I, with eclipse-watchers gathering along a path of totality extending 2,600 miles across the continent from Oregon to South Carolina.
2020 - A former police officer who became known as the Golden State Killer, Joseph James DeAngelo, told victims and family members in a Sacramento courtroom that he was “truly sorry” before he was sentenced to multiple life prison sentences for a decade-long string of rapes and murders.
2020 - “Full House” star Lori Loughlin and her fashion designer husband, Mossimo Giannulli, were sentenced to prison for paying half a million dollars in bribes to get their daughters into USC as crew recruits. (Giannulli would spend more than four months behind bars, Loughlin served two months.)
Birthdays
23 - Maxim Knight (actor)
30 - RJ Mitte (actor)
33 - Hayden Panettiere (actress)
34 - Kacey Musgraves (singer)
35 - Cody Kasch (actor)
36 - Brooks Whelan (actor/comedian)
36 - Carlos Pratts (actor)
36 - Usain Bolt (track & field athlete)
38 - Melissa Schuman (singer)
39 - Brody Jenner (TV personality)
47 - Alicia Witt (actress)
52 - Carrie-Anne Moss (actress)
60 - Cleo King (actress)
63 - Jim McMahon (football player)
66 - Kim Cattrall (actrses)
70 - Glenn Hughes (singer)
71 - Harry Smith (news journalist)
73 - Loretta Devine (actress)
77 - Patty McCormack (actress)
77 - Willie Lanier (football player)
81 - Jackie DeShannon (singer)
83 - James Burton (musician)
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Today in Sports History - August 21
1929 - The Chicago Cardinals traveled out of town for training camp. They were the first professional football team to do this.
1931 - Babe Ruth of the New York Yankees hits his 600th career home run.
1984 - Victoria Roche, a reserve outfielder, became the first girl to ever compete in a Little League World Series game.
2006 - Barry Bonds of the San Francisco Giants hits his 725th career home run.
2008 - The U.S. women's soccer team defats Brazil 1-0 to win the gold medal at the Olympic Games in Beijing.
2009 - The Dallas Cowboys played their first game at their new stadium in Arlington, TX. During the preseason game, against the Tennessee Titans, the Titans' kicker hit the scoreboard hanging in the center of the stadium.
2016 - The United States men's basketball team defeats Serbia 96-66 to win the gold medal at the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro.
2016 - Kenyan runner Eliud Kipchoge wins the men's Olympic marathon in Rio de Janeiro with a time of 2:08:44; American runner Galen Rupp finishes third in 2:10:05 to win bronze.
2020 - American golfer Scottie Scheffler becomes the 12th player in PGA Tour history to shoot a round of 59, doing so at the second round of the Northern Trust at TPC Boston.
1680 - Pueblo Indians drove out the Spanish and took possession of Santa Fe, New Mexico.
1831 - Nat Turner led an insurrection of slaves in Virginia, resulting in the deaths of at least 55 whites; scores of Blacks were killed in retribution in the aftermath of the rebellion. (Turner was later captured and executed.)
1858 - The first of seven debates between Illinois senatorial candidates Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas took place.
1911 - The Mona Lisa was stolen from the Louvre museum in France by an Italian waiter, Vicenzo Perruggia. (The painting was recovered two years later.)
1940 - Russian revolutionary Leon Trotsky died in Mexico City.
1944 - The United States, Britain, the Soviet Union and China opened talks at Dumbarton Oaks in Washington that helped pave the way for establishment of the United Nations. (The talks concluded on October 7.)
1945 - President Harry S. Truman announced the end of the Lend-Lease Program.
1959 - Hawaii became the 50th state.
1983 - Corazon Aquino's husband Benigno, who was Philippine president Ferdinand Marcos's chief political opponent, was assassinated.
1991 - Latvia declared independence from the Soviet Union.
1991 - The hard-line coup against Soviet President Mikhail S. Gorbachev collapsed in the face of a popular uprising led by Russian Federation President Boris N. Yeltsin.
1992 - An 11-day siege began at the cabin of white separatist Randy Weaver in Ruby Ridge, Idaho, as government agents tried to arrest Weaver for failing to appear in court on charges of selling two illegal sawed-off shotguns; on the first day of the siege, Weaver's teenage son, Samuel, and Deputy U.S. Marshal William Degan were killed.
1993 - In a serious setback for NASA, engineers lost contact with the Mars Observer spacecraft as it was about to reach the red planet on a $980 million mission.
2000 - Rescue efforts to reach the sunken Russian nuclear submarine Kursk ended with divers announcing none of the 118 sailors had survived.
2010 - Iranian and Russian engineers began loading fuel into Iran’s first nuclear power plant, which Moscow promised to safeguard to prevent material at the site from being used in any potential weapons production.
2013 - An Army private now known as Chelsea Manning was sentenced at Fort Meade, Maryland, to up to 35 years in prison for spilling an unprecedented trove of government secrets. (The sentence for the former intelligence analyst was commuted by President Barack Obama in his final days in office.)
2015 - A trio of Americans, U.S. Air Force Staff Sgt. Spencer Stone, National Guardsman Alek Skarlatos and college student Anthony Sadler, and a British businessman, Chris Norman, tackled and disarmed a Moroccan gunman on a high-speed train between Amsterdam and Paris.
2017 - Americans witnessed their first full-blown coast-to-coast solar eclipse since World War I, with eclipse-watchers gathering along a path of totality extending 2,600 miles across the continent from Oregon to South Carolina.
2020 - A former police officer who became known as the Golden State Killer, Joseph James DeAngelo, told victims and family members in a Sacramento courtroom that he was “truly sorry” before he was sentenced to multiple life prison sentences for a decade-long string of rapes and murders.
2020 - “Full House” star Lori Loughlin and her fashion designer husband, Mossimo Giannulli, were sentenced to prison for paying half a million dollars in bribes to get their daughters into USC as crew recruits. (Giannulli would spend more than four months behind bars, Loughlin served two months.)
Birthdays
23 - Maxim Knight (actor)
30 - RJ Mitte (actor)
33 - Hayden Panettiere (actress)
34 - Kacey Musgraves (singer)
35 - Cody Kasch (actor)
36 - Brooks Whelan (actor/comedian)
36 - Carlos Pratts (actor)
36 - Usain Bolt (track & field athlete)
38 - Melissa Schuman (singer)
39 - Brody Jenner (TV personality)
47 - Alicia Witt (actress)
52 - Carrie-Anne Moss (actress)
60 - Cleo King (actress)
63 - Jim McMahon (football player)
66 - Kim Cattrall (actrses)
70 - Glenn Hughes (singer)
71 - Harry Smith (news journalist)
73 - Loretta Devine (actress)
77 - Patty McCormack (actress)
77 - Willie Lanier (football player)
81 - Jackie DeShannon (singer)
83 - James Burton (musician)
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Today in Sports History - August 21
1929 - The Chicago Cardinals traveled out of town for training camp. They were the first professional football team to do this.
1931 - Babe Ruth of the New York Yankees hits his 600th career home run.
1984 - Victoria Roche, a reserve outfielder, became the first girl to ever compete in a Little League World Series game.
2006 - Barry Bonds of the San Francisco Giants hits his 725th career home run.
2008 - The U.S. women's soccer team defats Brazil 1-0 to win the gold medal at the Olympic Games in Beijing.
2009 - The Dallas Cowboys played their first game at their new stadium in Arlington, TX. During the preseason game, against the Tennessee Titans, the Titans' kicker hit the scoreboard hanging in the center of the stadium.
2016 - The United States men's basketball team defeats Serbia 96-66 to win the gold medal at the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro.
2016 - Kenyan runner Eliud Kipchoge wins the men's Olympic marathon in Rio de Janeiro with a time of 2:08:44; American runner Galen Rupp finishes third in 2:10:05 to win bronze.
2020 - American golfer Scottie Scheffler becomes the 12th player in PGA Tour history to shoot a round of 59, doing so at the second round of the Northern Trust at TPC Boston.
