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Events

• 1862 (164 years ago) The Stadtpark, the first public park in Vienna, opens to the public.
• 1942 (84 years ago) World War II: The Guadalcanal campaign: American forces defeat an attack by Imperial Japanese Army soldiers in the Battle of the Tenaru.
• 1944 (82 years ago) Dumbarton Oaks Conference, prelude to the United Nations, begins.
• 1982 (44 years ago) Lebanese Civil War: The first troops of a multinational force lands in Beirut to oversee the Palestine Liberation Organization's withdrawal from Lebanon.
• 1986 (40 years ago) Carbon dioxide gas erupts from volcanic Lake Nyos in Cameroon, killing up to 1,800 people within a 20-kilometre (12 mi) range.
• 1991 (35 years ago) Latvia declares renewal of its full independence after its occupation by the Soviet Union since 1940.
• 1994 (32 years ago) Royal Air Maroc Flight 630 crashes in Douar Izounine, Morocco, killing all 44 people on board.
• 2013 (13 years ago) Hundreds of people are reported killed by chemical attacks in the Ghouta region of Syria.

Births

• 1165 (861 years ago) Philip II of France,
• 1765 (261 years ago) William IV, King of the United Kingdom (died 1837)
• 1789 (237 years ago) Augustin-Louis Cauchy, French mathematician and academic (died 1857)
• 1961 (65 years ago) Stephen Hillenburg, American marine biologist, cartoonist, animator and creator of SpongeBob SquarePants (died 2018)
• 1963 (63 years ago) Mohammed VI of Morocco, King of Morocco
• 1973 (53 years ago) Sergey Brin, Russian-American computer scientist and businessman, co-founded Google
• 1986 (40 years ago) Usain Bolt, Jamaican sprinter
• 1988 (38 years ago) Robert Lewandowski, Polish footballer

Deaths

• 1614 (412 years ago) Elizabeth Báthory, Hungarian countess and purported serial killer (born 1560)
• 1838 (188 years ago) Adelbert von Chamisso, German botanist and poet (born 1781)
• 1940 (86 years ago) Leon Trotsky, Russian theorist and politician, founded the Red Army (born 1879)
• 1943 (83 years ago) Henrik Pontoppidan, Danish journalist and author, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1857)
• 1964 (62 years ago) Palmiro Togliatti, Italian journalist and politician, Italian Minister of Justice (born 1893)
• 1979 (47 years ago) Giuseppe Meazza, Italian footballer and manager (born 1910)
• 1995 (31 years ago) Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, Indian-American astrophysicist and mathematician, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1910)
• 2018 (8 years ago) Stefán Karl Stefánsson, Icelandic actor and singer (born 1975)

All 385 events, births and deaths of August 21