On This Day In History August 21
Birthdays:| 1754 | William Murdock, Scottish inventor | | 1765 | King William IV | | 1872 | Aubrey Beardsley, English illustrator | | 1904 | Count Baise, US bandleader and jazz player | | 1930 | HRH Princess Margaret, The Queens sister | | 1933 | Barry Norman, Television presenter | | 1938 | Kenny Rogers, American singer/songwriter |
Events:| 1900 | Allied forces overan Peking's inner city | | 1915 | Italy declared war on Turkey | | 1939 | Civil Defence, because of the impending war, was started in Britain | | 1959 | Hawaii became the 50th state of the United States of America | | 1963 | Martial law was imposed in South Vietnam | | 1984 | There were widespread arrests on the eve of South African coloured elections | | 1986 | A report on the Chernobyl disaster blamed 'human error' | | 1991 | An attempted coup against Mikial Gorbachev was stopped by Boris Yeltsin |
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