August 21

Today in History
• 1321 - 160 Jews of Chincon France, burned at stake
• 1680 - Pueblo Indians takes possession of Santa Fé, from Spanish
• 1760 - The church of "Our Lady of Candlemas of Mayagüez (Puerto Rico)" is founded
• 1821 - Jarvis Island is discovered by the crew of the ship, Eliza Frances
• 1831 - Former slave Nat Turner leads uprising against slavery
• 1841 - John Hampton patents venetian blind
• 1856 - America's first consul to Japan, Townsend Harris, arrives in Shimoda
• 1878 - American Bar Association organizes at Sarasota, NY


Holidays - Traditional and Obscure
• Discovery Day
• Nag Panchami
• National Brazilian Blowout Day
• National Report Upcoding Fraud Day
• National Senior Citizens Day
• National Spumoni Day
• Ninoy Aquino Day
• San Martin Day

Birthdays
• 1165 - Philip II Augustus, 1st great Capetian King of France (1179-1223)
• 1643 - Afonso VI, mentally ill King of Portugal (1656-67)
• 1660 - Hubert Gautier, French engineer, wrote 1st book on bridge building
• 1754 - William Murdoch, Scottish inventor (oscillating cylinder steam engine)
• 1765 - William IV, King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland (1830-37)
• 1811 - William Kelly, American inventor (pneumatic process of steelmaking)
• 1875 - Maurice Lippens, Belgian governor of Congo (1921-23)
• 1879 - Claude Grahame-White, English aviation pioneer who was the 1st to make a night flight