August 21: Youth Day and King Mohammed's Birthday in Morocco; Ninoy Aquino Day in the Philippines
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- 1689 – Jacobite risings: Jacobite clans supporting the deposed king James VII of Scotland clashed with a government regiment of Covenanters supporting William of Orange, in the streets around Dunkeld Cathedral, Dunkeld, Scotland.
- 1858 – The first of seven debates between Abraham Lincoln and Stephen A. Douglas (both pictured), candidates for an Illinois seat in the United States Senate, was held in Ottawa, Illinois.
- 1945 – American physicist Harry K. Daghlian, Jr. accidentally dropped a tungsten carbide brick onto a delta phase plutonium bomb core and exposed himself to a lethal dose of neutron radiation, becoming the first known fatality to due a criticality accident 25 days later.
- 1986 – A limnic eruption of a cloud of carbon dioxide from Lake Nyos in Cameroon killed up to 1,700 people and 3,500 livestock in nearby villages.
- 2013 – Syrian Civil War: Rockets containing sarin struck the opposition-controlled portions of the Ghouta suburbs of Damascus, resulting in at least 281 deaths.
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