It happened on this day, August 21st.
Events:
1541 – The Ottoman army, led by Suleiman the Magnificent, ends the siege of Buda and manages to conquer it and control Hungary for 150 years.
1915 – Italy declares war on the Ottoman Empire in World War I.
1919 – Belgium declares itself a mandate for Burundi.
1920 – The assassination of Syrian Prime Minister Alaa al-Din al-Droubi and the head of the Shura Council, Abd al-Rahman Pasha al-Youssef, in the village of Khirbet Ghazala in Houran by rebels.
1944 – A meeting takes place between representatives of the United Kingdom, the United States and the Soviet Union to draft a United Nations Charter.
1959 – Hawaii joins the United States as the 51st state.
1969 – Al-Aqsa Mosque is set on fire by Michael Dennis Rohan.
1983 – Philippine opposition leader Benigno Aquino is assassinated at Manila International Airport after returning to his country from twenty years in exile.
1991 – Latvia declares independence from the Soviet Union.
1994 – Royal Air Maroc Flight 630 crashes (44 dead).
1998 – The United States bombs a pharmaceutical factory in Sudan under the pretext that it was a chemical weapons factory.
2003 – U.S. forces arrest Baath Party leader and cousin of former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein, Ali Hassan al-Majid.
2011 – Revolutionaries arrived in Tripoli's Green Square after Gaddafi's brigades withdrew from parts of the capital. In the evening, thousands of people celebrated the fall of the Gaddafi regime in the Green Square in central Tripoli, in Benghazi and in the city of Al-Bayda.
2012 – Ethiopian Deputy Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn takes over as interim Prime Minister following the death of Prime Minister Meles Zenawi.
2013 – U.S. Army Private Bradley Manning was sentenced to 35 years in prison for leaking classified documents to WikiLeaks.
2013 – A chemical weapons attack in Syria on several towns in Eastern Ghouta resulted in the deaths and asphyxiation of many people.
2014 – Ahmed Davutoğlu is appointed head of the Justice and Development Party and Prime Minister of Turkey.
2017 – A total solar eclipse occurs over the contiguous United States for the first time since 1918.
2021 – King Abdullah Ahmad Shah appoints Ismail Sabri Yaakob as Prime Minister following the country's political crisis.
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Births:
1165 – King Philip Augustus, King of France.
1643 – King Alfonso VI, 22nd king of Portugal.
1765 – King William IV, King of the United Kingdom.
1789 – Augustin Louis Cauchy, French mathematician.
1798 – Jules Michelet, French historian.
1862 – Idris Bey Ragheb, Egyptian judge.
1902 – Angel Karalychev, Bulgarian writer specializing in children's literature.
1906 – Friz Freleng, American animator and film director.
1930 – Princess Margaret, daughter of George VI of the United Kingdom and Countess of Snowdon.
1938 – Kenny Rogers, American singer.
(1945-MounirFakhriAbdelNourEgyptian politician
1947 – Major General Ahmed Mukhtar, Egyptian military and politician.
1948 – Ezzat Abu Auf, Egyptian actor.
1963 – King Mohammed VI, King of Morocco.
1967 – Carrie-Anne Moss, Canadian actress. Serj Tankian, American singer.
1971 – Fathi Abdel Wahab, Egyptian actor.
1972 – Al-Hassan Al-Yami, Saudi footballer.
1973 – Sergey Brin, one of the founders of Google.
1982- Ashley Chen, English actor and screenwriter.
1984 – Alizée, French singer.
1986 – Usain Bolt, Jamaican runner.
1988 – Robert Lewandowski, Polish footballer.
1989 – Hayden Panettiere, American actress and singer.
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Death:
1153 – Saint Bernard, Catholic saint.
1157 – King Alfonso VII, King of Spain.
1796 – John McKinley, American politician.
1836 – Claude-Louis Navier, French physicist and engineer.
1926 – King Eugene Wangchuk, King of Bhutan.
1940 – Leon Trotsky, communist leader.
1943 – Henrik Pontoppidan, Danish writer, Nobel Prize for Literature in 1917.
1964 – Palmiro Togliatti, Italian communist leader.
1979 – Giuseppe Meazza, Italian footballer.
1980 – Mohamed Abdel Muttalib, Egyptian singer
1983 – Benigno Aquino, former President of the Philippines.
2010 – Lakhdar Bentoubal, Algerian politician.
2011 – Prince Muhammad Al-Abdullah Al-Faisal Al Saud, Saudi prince, poet and athlete.
2018 – Hanna Mina, Syrian novelist.
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Public holidays and occasions:
⬅️ Ninoy Aquino Day in the Philippines.
