Vero - Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/August 21

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  Abraham Lincoln and Stephen A. Douglas
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  Gustav III
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  The Xa Loi Pagoda, one of the largest Buddhist pagodas in Vietnam
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  James Anderson Jr.
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  Nat Turner woodcarving
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  Mona Lisa
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  Rocket launcher from the Ghouta chemical attack

Ineligible

Blurb	Reason
Youth Day and King Mohammed's Birthday in Morocco;	Morocco: refimprove; Mohammed VI: lead too short, unreferenced section (Ancestry)
Rosh Hashanah LaBehema (Judaism, 2020)	Date not reliably cited and not a mainstream Jewish festival
Ninoy Aquino Day in the Philippines	refimprove
1140 – Song dynasty general Yue Fei defeated an army led by Jin dynasty general Wuzhu at the Battle of Yancheng during the Jin–Song Wars.	refimprove section
1680 – Several tribes of Pueblo Indians captured the town of Santa Fe in Nuevo México.	lots of CN tags in one section ("In the arts")
1772 – A bloodless coup d'état led by [[Gustav III|Template:Nowrap]] was completed with the adoption of a new Swedish Constitution.	refimprove section
1791 – A slave rebellion erupted in the French colony of Saint-Domingue, starting the Haitian Revolution.	refimprove section
1831 – Enslaved African-American preacher Nat Turner led a slave revolt in Southampton County, Virginia, which was suppressed about 48 hours later.	in popular culture section
1858 – The first of seven debates between Abraham Lincoln and Stephen A. Douglas (both pictured), candidates for an Illinois seat in the U.S. Senate, was held in Ottawa, Illinois.	in popular culture section
1944 – Delegations from Republic of China, the Soviet Union, the United Kingdom, and the United States, met at Dumbarton Oaks in Washington, D.C. to discuss the formation of the United Nations.	unreferenced section
1959 – Under the terms of the Hawaii Admission Act and a subsequent plebiscite, the Territory of Hawaii was officially admitted as the 50th U.S. state.	lots of CN tags (24)
1968 – The Prague Spring, a period of political liberalization in Czechoslovakia, abruptly ended after Warsaw Pact troops invaded the country, killing 72 Czechoslovaks and arresting their leader Alexander Dubček.	refimprove section
1968 – Private First Class James Anderson Jr. of the U.S. Marine Corps became the first African-American Marine Corps recipient of the Medal of Honor.	unreferenced section
1969 – An Australian tourist set the Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem on fire, a major catalyst of the formation of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation.	Lots of tags in one section
1982 – Lebanese Civil War: The first troops of a multinational force landed in Beirut to oversee the Palestine Liberation Organization withdrawal from Lebanon.	unreferenced sections
1992 – United States Marshals engaged a fugitive in a shootout at Ruby Ridge, Idaho, beginning a twelve-day siege.	Lots of self-published sources
1983 – Philippine opposition leader Benigno Aquino Jr. was assassinated moments after stepping off a plane at Manila International Airport from his self-imposed exile in the United States.	Aquino: unreferenced section (Ancestry); Assassination: unreferenced section, refimprove section
1993 – NASA lost contact with its Mars Observer spacecraft, three days before orbital insertion.	unreferenced section
2007 – Hurricane Dean made landfall on the Yucatán Peninsula of Mexico at Category 5 intensity, causing 45 deaths and US$1.5 billion in damage.	figures are dubious; refer to the whole hurricane, rather than the Yucatan peninsula
Zahir al-Umar |d|1775	date of death uncertain, could be 21st or 22nd
Jules Michelet |b|1798|	peacock, underreffed section
John MacCulloch |d|1835|	Deathdate not cited in article
X. J. Kennedy |b|1929|	Too much unreferenced
Eve Torres |b|1984	Too much unreferenced

Eligible

• 1689 – Jacobite clans clashed with a regiment of Covenanters in the streets of Dunkeld, Scotland.
• 1716 – Seventh Ottoman–Venetian War: Ottoman forces suddenly abandoned their siege of Corfu, allowing the Republic of Venice to preserve its rule over the Ionian Islands.
• 1789 – The national colours of Italy first appeared on a tricolour cockade in Genoa.
• 1911 – Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa (pictured) was stolen from the Louvre by museum employee Vincenzo Peruggia and was not recovered until two years later.
• 1944 – World War II: A combined Canadian–Polish force captured the town of Falaise, France, in the final offensive of the Battle of Normandy.
• 1945 – American physicist Harry Daghlian accidentally dropped a tungsten carbide brick onto a plutonium bomb core, exposing himself to neutron radiation and later becoming the first Manhattan Project fatality due to a criticality accident.
• 1971 – Six people were killed during an escape attempt and riot at San Quentin State Prison in California; the subsequent trial of six inmates was the longest in state history at the time.
• 1986 – A limnic eruption of Lake Nyos in Cameroon released a cloud of carbon dioxide, suffocating 1,746 people and 3,500 livestock.
• 2007 – BioShock was released in North America, becoming a critical success and a demonstration of video games as an art form.
• 2013 – Syrian civil war: Areas controlled by the Syrian opposition in Ghouta, Damascus, were attacked by rockets (launcher pictured) containing sarin, killing at least 281 people.
• Born/died this day: | Alphonse, Count of Poitiers |d|1271| Juan de Tassis, 2nd Count of Villamediana |d|1622| Lady Mary Wortley Montagu |d|1762| William IV |b|1765| Fred Waite |b|1885| Emily Tinne |b|1886| Christopher Robin Milne |b|1920| Thomas S. Monson |b|1927| Art Farmer |b|1928| Emma Mashinini |b|1929| Barry Norman |b|1933| Kenny Rogers |b|1938| Stephen Hillenburg |b|1961| Sergey Brin |b|1973| Frederick Seguier Drake |d|1974| Giuseppe Meazza |d|1979| Usain Bolt |b|1986| Robert Lewandowski |b|1988| Dominik Kubalík |b|1995| Jan Erik Berntsen |d|2025|

Notes

• Cable 243 appears on August 24, so Xá Lợi Pagoda raids should not appear in the same year

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• 1717 – Austro-Turkish War: Austrian troops under Prince Eugene of Savoy captured the strategically important city of Belgrade from the Ottoman Empire.
• 1808 – Peninsular War: British and Portuguese forces put an end to the first French invasion of Portugal at the Battle of Vimeiro.
• 1942 – World War II: The Imperial Japanese Army lost the Battle of the Tenaru, the first of its three major land offensives during the Guadalcanal campaign.
• 1963 – South Vietnamese special forces loyal to Ngô Đình Nhu, the brother of President Ngô Đình Diệm, raided and vandalised Buddhist pagodas (one pictured) across the country, arresting thousands and leaving hundreds dead.
• 2015 – Passengers on a Thalys train from Amsterdam to Paris confronted and subdued an attacker who attempted a mass shooting.