08-21-2006, 05:09 AM
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August 21st
1858 ~ The first of seven debates between U.S. Senate candidates Abraham Lincoln and Stephen A. Douglas was held.
1872 ~ Birthday of Aubrey Beardsley, Illustrator.
1904 ~ Birthday of Count Basie, Bandleader.
1923 ~ Birthday of Shimon Peres, Prime Minister of Israel.
1936 ~ Birthday of Wilt Chamberlain, Basketball Hall of Famer.
1940 ~ Death of Leon Trotsky, exiled Russian revolutionary.
1959 ~ Hawaii was admitted as the 50th U.S. state.
1983 ~ Assassination of Benigno S. Aquino Jr., Philippine opposition leader.
1986 ~ Suffocating gas erupted from volcanic Lake Nyos in Cameroon, killing more than 1,700.
1991 ~ A hard-line coup against Soviet President Mikhail S. Gorbachev collapsed in the face of a popular uprising led by Russian federation President Boris N. Yeltsin.
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