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	'''August 21''' is the 233rd day of the year (234th in ]s) in the ]. There are 132 days remaining.		'''August 21''' is the 233rd day of the year (234th in ]s) in the ]. There are 132 days remaining.

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August 21 is the 233rd day of the year (234th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar. There are 132 days remaining.

1680 - Pueblo Indians captured Santa Fe from Spanish during the Pueblo Revolt
1831 - Nat Turner leads slave revolt in Southampton County, Virginia
1852 - Tlingit Indians destroy Fort Selkirk, Yukon Territory
1858 - Lincoln-Douglas debates begin
1863 - Lawrence, Kansas destroyed by William Quantrill, Jesse and Frank James, the Younger Brothers, et. al.
1911 - The Mona Lisa is stolen from the Louvre
1944 - Dumbarton Oaks Conference, prelude to the United Nations
1959 - Hawaii is admitted as the 50th U.S. state.
1986 - Toxic gas erupts from volcanic Lake Nyos in Cameroon, killing over 1700 people
1991 - Coup attempt against Mikhail Gorbachev collapses
1998 - The United States destroys a pharmaceutical plant (erroneously believed to be a chemical weapons plant) in Sudan
2001 - NATO decides to send a peace-keeping force to the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia
2001 - A sixth-century temple is discovered in central Mexico
2001 - The Red Cross announces that a famine is striking Tajikistan, and calls for international financial aid for Tajikistan and Uzbekistan