August 21
1680 - Pueblo Indians drove out the Spanish and took possession of Santa Fe in present-day New Mexico.
1831 - Nat Turner launched a violent slave rebellion 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 the seven famous debates between Sen. 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. (The painting was recovered two years later in Italy.)
1940 - Russian revolutionary Leon Trotsky died in Mexico City.
1945 - President Harry S. Truman announced the end of the Lend-Lease Program.
1959 - Hawaii became the 50th state.
1983 - Philippine opposition leader Benigno S. Aquino Jr., ending a self-imposed exile in the United States, was shot dead moments after stepping off a plane at Manila International Airport.
1986 - More than 1,700 people died when toxic gas erupted from a volcanic lake in the West African nation of Cameroon.
1987 - Sgt. Clayton Lonetree, the first Marine ever court-martialed for spying, was convicted in Quantico, Virginia, of passing secrets to the KGB. (Lonetree ended up serving eight years in a military prison.)
1991 - Latvia declared its independence from the Soviet Union.
1991 - A hard-line coup against Soviet President Mikhail S. Gorbachev collapsed in the face of a popular uprising led by Russian federation President Boris 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 him for failing to appear in court on charges of selling two illegal sawed-off shotguns.
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.
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.
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.
2011 - Euphoric Libyan rebels raced into Tripoli and took control of the center with little resistance as Moammar Gadhafi’s defenses collapsed and his four-decade regime appeared to be crumbling.
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.)
2014 - Gov. Jay Nixon ordered the Missouri National Guard to begin withdrawing from Ferguson, where nightly scenes of unrest had erupted since a white police officer fatally shot a Black 18-year-old nearly two weeks earlier.
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.
2020 - Michigan’s appeals court said Democratic Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s emergency declarations and orders to curb the coronavirus clearly fell within the scope of her legal powers.
2020 - A former police officer who became known as the Golden State Killer, Joseph James DeAngelo, told victims 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 $500,000 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
22 - Maxim Knight (actor)
29 - RJ Mitte (actor)
32 - Hayden Panettiere (actress)
33 - Kacey Musgraves (country singer)
34 - Cody Kasch (actor)
35 - Brooks Wheelan (actor/comedian)
35 - Carlos Pratts (actor)
35 - Usain Bolt (track & field athlete)
37 - Eve Torres (professional wrestler/actress)
37 - Melissa Schuman (singer)
38 - Brody Jenner (reality star)
46 - Alicia Witt (actress)
51 - Craig Counsell (baseball player)
51 - Carrie-Anne Moss (actress)
59 - Cleo King (actress)
62 - Jim McMahon (football player)
65 - Kim Cattrall (actress)
69 - Glenn Hughes (singer)
76 - Patty McCormack (actress)
76 - Willie Lanier (football player)
89 - Melvin Van Peebles (actor)
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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 became the first player in MLB history to hit 600 career home runs.
1967 - Kansas City utility player Ken Harrelson becomes baseball's first free agent when he is abruptly released by the Athletics; calls team owner Charlie Finley "a menace to baseball".
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.
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 hit his 725th career home run.
2008 - The United States defeats Brazil 1-0 to win the gold medal in women's soccer at the Beijing Olympic Games.
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 - Kevin Durant scored 30 points and helped the Americans rout Serbia 96-66 for their third straight gold medal, capping an Olympics in which the U.S. dominated the medal tables, both the gold (46) and overall totals (121).
2016 - Kenyan runner Eliud Kipchoge wins the men's marathon at the Rio Olympics with a time of 2:08:44. American Galen Rupp takes bronze in 2:10:05.
1680 - Pueblo Indians drove out the Spanish and took possession of Santa Fe in present-day New Mexico.
1831 - Nat Turner launched a violent slave rebellion 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 the seven famous debates between Sen. 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. (The painting was recovered two years later in Italy.)
1940 - Russian revolutionary Leon Trotsky died in Mexico City.
1945 - President Harry S. Truman announced the end of the Lend-Lease Program.
1959 - Hawaii became the 50th state.
1983 - Philippine opposition leader Benigno S. Aquino Jr., ending a self-imposed exile in the United States, was shot dead moments after stepping off a plane at Manila International Airport.
1986 - More than 1,700 people died when toxic gas erupted from a volcanic lake in the West African nation of Cameroon.
1987 - Sgt. Clayton Lonetree, the first Marine ever court-martialed for spying, was convicted in Quantico, Virginia, of passing secrets to the KGB. (Lonetree ended up serving eight years in a military prison.)
1991 - Latvia declared its independence from the Soviet Union.
1991 - A hard-line coup against Soviet President Mikhail S. Gorbachev collapsed in the face of a popular uprising led by Russian federation President Boris 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 him for failing to appear in court on charges of selling two illegal sawed-off shotguns.
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.
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.
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.
2011 - Euphoric Libyan rebels raced into Tripoli and took control of the center with little resistance as Moammar Gadhafi’s defenses collapsed and his four-decade regime appeared to be crumbling.
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.)
2014 - Gov. Jay Nixon ordered the Missouri National Guard to begin withdrawing from Ferguson, where nightly scenes of unrest had erupted since a white police officer fatally shot a Black 18-year-old nearly two weeks earlier.
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.
2020 - Michigan’s appeals court said Democratic Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s emergency declarations and orders to curb the coronavirus clearly fell within the scope of her legal powers.
2020 - A former police officer who became known as the Golden State Killer, Joseph James DeAngelo, told victims 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 $500,000 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
22 - Maxim Knight (actor)
29 - RJ Mitte (actor)
32 - Hayden Panettiere (actress)
33 - Kacey Musgraves (country singer)
34 - Cody Kasch (actor)
35 - Brooks Wheelan (actor/comedian)
35 - Carlos Pratts (actor)
35 - Usain Bolt (track & field athlete)
37 - Eve Torres (professional wrestler/actress)
37 - Melissa Schuman (singer)
38 - Brody Jenner (reality star)
46 - Alicia Witt (actress)
51 - Craig Counsell (baseball player)
51 - Carrie-Anne Moss (actress)
59 - Cleo King (actress)
62 - Jim McMahon (football player)
65 - Kim Cattrall (actress)
69 - Glenn Hughes (singer)
76 - Patty McCormack (actress)
76 - Willie Lanier (football player)
89 - Melvin Van Peebles (actor)
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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 became the first player in MLB history to hit 600 career home runs.
1967 - Kansas City utility player Ken Harrelson becomes baseball's first free agent when he is abruptly released by the Athletics; calls team owner Charlie Finley "a menace to baseball".
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.
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 hit his 725th career home run.
2008 - The United States defeats Brazil 1-0 to win the gold medal in women's soccer at the Beijing Olympic Games.
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 - Kevin Durant scored 30 points and helped the Americans rout Serbia 96-66 for their third straight gold medal, capping an Olympics in which the U.S. dominated the medal tables, both the gold (46) and overall totals (121).
2016 - Kenyan runner Eliud Kipchoge wins the men's marathon at the Rio Olympics with a time of 2:08:44. American Galen Rupp takes bronze in 2:10:05.
