August 21
Today is the 233rd day of 2017, there are 132 days left in the year.
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.
1858 - The famous debates between Senator Stephen Douglas and Abraham Lincoln began in Illinois.
1878 - The American Bar Association was founded in Saratoga, New York.
1911 - The Mona Lisa was stolen from the Louvre museum in France by an Italian waiter, Vicenzo Perruggia.
1940 - Russian revolutionary Leon Trotsky died in Mexico City from wounds inflicted by an assassin.
1945 - President Harry Truman announced the end of the Lend-Lease Program.
1959 - Hawaii became the 50th state.
1963 - Martial law was declared in South Vietnam as police and army troops began a violent crackdown on Buddhist anti-government protesters.
1983 - Corazon Aquino's husband, Benigno, who was Philippine president Ferdinand Marcos's chief political opponent, was assassinated.
1987 - Sgt. Clayton Lonetree, the first Marine ever court-martialed for spying, was convicted in Quantico, Virginia of passing secrets to the KGB.
1991 - A hard-line coup against Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev collapsed in the face of a popular uprising led by Russian federation President Boris Yeltsin.
1991 - Latvia declared its independence from the Soviet Union.
1992 - An 11-day siege began at the cabin of white separatist Randy Weaver in Ruby Ridge, Idaho, as government agents tried to arrest him for failing to appear in court on charges of selling two illegal sawed-off shotguns.
2002 - A jury in San Diego convicted David Westerfield of kidnapping and killing 7-year-old Danielle van Dam. (He was later sentenced to death.)
2006 - British prosecutors announced that 11 people had been charged in an alleged plot to blow up trans-Atlantic jetliners bound for the United States.
2009 - Leaders of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America voted to lift a ban that prohibited sexually active gays and lesbians from serving as ministers.
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.
Birthdays
24 - Mike Evans (football player)
25 - Brad Kavanagh (actor)
26 - Tom Maden (actor)
26 - Demy (singer)
28 - Hayden Panettiere (actress)
29 - Robert Lewandowski (soccer player)
29 - Victoria Baker-Harber (reality star)
29 - Kacey Musgraves (country singer)
30 - Carly Steel (TV host)
31 - Usain Bolt (track & field athlete)
33 - Eve Torres (professional wrestler)
34 - Chantelle Houghton (model)
34 - Brody Jenner (reality star)
37 - John Brotherton (actor)
61 - Kim Cattrall (actress)
68 - Loretta Devine (actress)
79 - Kenny Rogers (country singer)
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Today in Sports History - August 21
1901 - Joe McGinnity is suspended from the National League for punching and spitting on an umpire.
1922 - Curly Lambeau and the Green Bay Football Club are granted an NFL franchise.
1929 - The Chicago Cardinals traveled out of town for training camp. They were the first professional football team to do this.
1931 - Babe Ruth hits his 600th career home run.
1949 - The New York Giants defeat the Philadelphia Phillies by forfeit due to fans throwing debris onto the field.
1971 - Laura Baugh, at the age of 16, won the United State's Women's Amateur Golf tournament. She was the youngest winner in the history of the tournament.
1982 - Milwaukee Brewers' reliever Rollie Fingers becomes the first player in major league history to record 300 career saves as Milwaukee defeats the Seattle Mariners, 3-2.
1984 - Victoria Roche, a reserve outfielder, became the first girl to ever compete in a Little League World Series game.
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' punter hit the scoreboard hanging in the center of the stadium.
2016 - The United States men's basketball team won a third straight Olympic gold medal after defeating Serbia 96-66 in the gold medal game at the Rio Olympics.
2016 - The Rio Olympic Games came to a close.
Today is the 233rd day of 2017, there are 132 days left in the year.
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.
1858 - The famous debates between Senator Stephen Douglas and Abraham Lincoln began in Illinois.
1878 - The American Bar Association was founded in Saratoga, New York.
1911 - The Mona Lisa was stolen from the Louvre museum in France by an Italian waiter, Vicenzo Perruggia.
1940 - Russian revolutionary Leon Trotsky died in Mexico City from wounds inflicted by an assassin.
1945 - President Harry Truman announced the end of the Lend-Lease Program.
1959 - Hawaii became the 50th state.
1963 - Martial law was declared in South Vietnam as police and army troops began a violent crackdown on Buddhist anti-government protesters.
1983 - Corazon Aquino's husband, Benigno, who was Philippine president Ferdinand Marcos's chief political opponent, was assassinated.
1987 - Sgt. Clayton Lonetree, the first Marine ever court-martialed for spying, was convicted in Quantico, Virginia of passing secrets to the KGB.
1991 - A hard-line coup against Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev collapsed in the face of a popular uprising led by Russian federation President Boris Yeltsin.
1991 - Latvia declared its independence from the Soviet Union.
1992 - An 11-day siege began at the cabin of white separatist Randy Weaver in Ruby Ridge, Idaho, as government agents tried to arrest him for failing to appear in court on charges of selling two illegal sawed-off shotguns.
2002 - A jury in San Diego convicted David Westerfield of kidnapping and killing 7-year-old Danielle van Dam. (He was later sentenced to death.)
2006 - British prosecutors announced that 11 people had been charged in an alleged plot to blow up trans-Atlantic jetliners bound for the United States.
2009 - Leaders of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America voted to lift a ban that prohibited sexually active gays and lesbians from serving as ministers.
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.
Birthdays
24 - Mike Evans (football player)
25 - Brad Kavanagh (actor)
26 - Tom Maden (actor)
26 - Demy (singer)
28 - Hayden Panettiere (actress)
29 - Robert Lewandowski (soccer player)
29 - Victoria Baker-Harber (reality star)
29 - Kacey Musgraves (country singer)
30 - Carly Steel (TV host)
31 - Usain Bolt (track & field athlete)
33 - Eve Torres (professional wrestler)
34 - Chantelle Houghton (model)
34 - Brody Jenner (reality star)
37 - John Brotherton (actor)
61 - Kim Cattrall (actress)
68 - Loretta Devine (actress)
79 - Kenny Rogers (country singer)
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Today in Sports History - August 21
1901 - Joe McGinnity is suspended from the National League for punching and spitting on an umpire.
1922 - Curly Lambeau and the Green Bay Football Club are granted an NFL franchise.
1929 - The Chicago Cardinals traveled out of town for training camp. They were the first professional football team to do this.
1931 - Babe Ruth hits his 600th career home run.
1949 - The New York Giants defeat the Philadelphia Phillies by forfeit due to fans throwing debris onto the field.
1971 - Laura Baugh, at the age of 16, won the United State's Women's Amateur Golf tournament. She was the youngest winner in the history of the tournament.
1982 - Milwaukee Brewers' reliever Rollie Fingers becomes the first player in major league history to record 300 career saves as Milwaukee defeats the Seattle Mariners, 3-2.
1984 - Victoria Roche, a reserve outfielder, became the first girl to ever compete in a Little League World Series game.
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' punter hit the scoreboard hanging in the center of the stadium.
2016 - The United States men's basketball team won a third straight Olympic gold medal after defeating Serbia 96-66 in the gold medal game at the Rio Olympics.
2016 - The Rio Olympic Games came to a close.
