August 21<\/p>\n
1680 \u2013 Pueblo Indians capture Santa Fe from the Spanish during the Pueblo Revolt.<\/p>\n
1716 \u2013 The arrival of Venetian naval reinforcements and the news of their loss at Petrovaradin force the Ottomans to abandon the Siege of Corfu, keeping the Heptanese Islands in the Ionian sea under Venetian rule<\/p>\n
1831 \u2013 Nat Turner leads black slaves and free blacks in a rebellion in Southampton County, Virginia.<\/p>\n
1858 \u2013 The first Lincoln\u2013Douglas debate is held in Ottawa, Illinois.<\/p>\n
1863 \u2013\u00a0 Quantrill’s Guerillas raid Lawrence, Kansas<\/p>\n
1878 \u2013 The American Bar Association is founded in Saratoga Springs, New York<\/p>\n
1897 \u2013 Ransom Eli Olds founds the Olds Motor Vehicle Company in Lansing, Michigan<\/p>\n
1901 \u2013 600 American school teachers on the USAT\u00a0Thomas, <\/em>arrive at Manila, in the newly occupied territory of the Philippines, to establish a public school system to train Filipino teachers and students in basic education and the English language<\/p>\n 1904 \u2013 William ‘Count’ Basie is born in Red Bank, New Jersey.<\/p>\n 1911 \u2013 Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa<\/em> is stolen by Vincenzo Peruggia, a Louvre employee.<\/p>\n 1918 \u2013 The Second Battle of the Somme begins during World War I.<\/p>\n 1942 \u2013 U.S. Marines, deployed in the defense along the Tenaru river on Guadalcanal, defeat attacking Japanese soldiers of the Ichiki Butai attempting their first ground offensive to retake the airfield on the island.<\/p>\n 1945 \u2013 Physicist Harry Daghlian is fatally irradiated in a criticality accident during an experiment at Los Alamos National Laboratory with the ‘Demon Core’, the plutonium core of what would have been the 3rd bomb dropped on Japan. 1959 \u2013 President Eisenhower signs an executive order proclaiming Hawaii the 50th state of the union<\/p>\n 1968 \u2013 James Anderson Jr. posthumously receives the first Medal of Honor to be awarded to an African American U.S. Marine.<\/p>\n 1974 \u2013 Buford Pusser dies in a vehicle accident near Adamsville, Tennessee.<\/p>\n 1991 \u2013 The coup attempt by communist hardliners against Mikhail Gorbachev collapses.<\/p>\n 1993 \u2013 3 days before its planned arrival and insertion into orbit, NASA loses, and never regains contact with the Mars Observer<\/em> spacecraft.<\/p>\n 1995 \u2013 Atlantic Southeast Airlines Flight 529, an Embraer EMB 120 Brasilia,\u00a0 crashes in Carroll County, Georgia, after the left engine fails, killing 4 of the 26 passengers on board, and the Captain of the aircraft, with 4 more passengers later dying of injuries.<\/p>\n 2000 \u2013 Tiger Woods wins the 82nd PGA Championship, becoming the first golfer to win 3 major tournaments in a calendar year since Ben Hogan in 1953<\/p>\n 2017 \u2013 A solar eclipse traverses the continental United States.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" August 21 1680 \u2013 Pueblo Indians capture Santa Fe from the Spanish during the Pueblo Revolt. 1716 \u2013 The arrival of Venetian naval reinforcements and the news of their loss at Petrovaradin force the Ottomans to abandon the Siege of Corfu, keeping the Heptanese Islands in the Ionian sea under Venetian rule 1831 \u2013 Nat … Continue reading “”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58461","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-today"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58461","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=58461"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58461\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":95315,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58461\/revisions\/95315"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nPresident Truman orders an immediate halt to Lend-Lease aid.<\/p>\n