Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/August 21
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This is a list of selected August 21 anniversaries that appears on the "On this day" section of the Main Page. To suggest a new item, in most cases you can be bold and edit this page. Please read the selected anniversaries guidelines before making your edit. However, if your addition may be controversial, or on a day that is or soon will be on the Main Page, please post your suggestion on the talk page instead.
To report an error when this appears on the Main Page, see Main Page errors.August 21: Ninoy Aquino Day in the Philippines
- 1772 – A bloodless coup d'état led by Gustav III was completed with the adoption of a new Swedish Constitution.
- 1831 – Nat Turner led a slave revolt in Southampton County, Virginia, USA, but it was suppressed about 48 hours later.
- 1911 – Mona Lisa (pictured), an oil painting by Leonardo da Vinci, was stolen from the Louvre Museum in Paris. It was recovered two years later.
- 1963 – The Army of the Republic of Vietnam Special Forces loyal to Ngo Dinh Nhu, brother of President Ngo Dinh Diem, raided and vandalised Buddhist pagodas across the country, arresting thousands and leaving an estimated hundreds dead.
- 1968 – The "Prague Spring", a period of political liberalization in Czechoslovakia, abruptly ended after 200,000 Warsaw Pact troops and 5,000 tanks successfully invaded the country, killing 72 Czechoslovaks and arresting their leader Alexander Dubček.
- 1976 – Operation "Paul Bunyan" was carried out in response to the Axe Murder Incident, almost triggering a second full-scale Korean War over cutting down a 100 ft (30 m) poplar tree in the Joint Security Area of the Korean Demilitarized Zone.
