Ethnic clashes over grazing rights for cattle in Kenya's Tana River District result in more than 52 deaths. Date: August 22, 2012 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on August 22 📅 Events on this day in 2012 📅 On This Day (Today)
Six hundred American school teachers, Thomasites, arrived in Manila on the USAT Thomas. Date: August 21, 1901 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on August 21 📅 Events on this day in 1901 📅 On This Day (Today)
The Mona Lisa is stolen by Vincenzo Peruggia, a Louvre employee. Date: August 21, 1911 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on August 21 📅 Events on this day in 1911 📅 On This Day (Today)
World War I: The Battle of Charleroi, a successful German attack across the River Sambre that pre-empted a French offensive in the same area. Date: August 21, 1914 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on August 21 📅 Events on this day in 1914 📅 On This Day (Today)
World War I: The Second Battle of the Somme begins. Date: August 21, 1918 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on August 21 📅 Events on this day in 1918 📅 On This Day (Today)
World War II: The Guadalcanal campaign: American forces defeat an attack by Imperial Japanese Army soldiers in the Battle of the Tenaru. Date: August 21, 1942 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on August 21 📅 Events on this day in 1942 📅 On This Day (Today)
World War II: Canadian and Polish units capture the strategically important town of Falaise, Calvados, France. Date: August 21, 1944 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on August 21 📅 Events on this day in 1944 📅 On This Day (Today)
Dumbarton Oaks Conference, prelude to the United Nations, begins. Date: August 21, 1944 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on August 21 📅 Events on this day in 1944 📅 On This Day (Today)
Physicist Harry Daghlian is fatally irradiated in a criticality accident during an experiment with the Demon core at Los Alamos National Laboratory. Date: August 21, 1945 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on August 21 📅 Events on this day in 1945 📅 On This Day (Today)
The Soviet Union successfully conducts a long-range test flight of the R-7 Semyorka, the first intercontinental ballistic missile. Date: August 21, 1957 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on August 21 📅 Events on this day in 1957 📅 On This Day (Today)