August 21: Youth Day and King Mohammed's Birthday in Morocco; Ninoy Aquino Day in the Philippines
Lake Nyos, Cameroon
- 1680 – Several tribes of Pueblo Indians captured the town of Santa Fe in Nuevo México.
- 1831 – Nat Turner led a slave revolt in Southampton County, Virginia, US; it was suppressed about 48 hours later.
- 1944 – Second World War: A combined Canadian–Polish force captured the strategically important town of Falaise, France, in the final offensive of the Battle of Normandy.
- 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.
- 1986 – A limnic eruption of a cloud of carbon dioxide from Lake Nyos (pictured) in Cameroon killed up to 1,700 people and 3,500 livestock in nearby villages.
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