Anniversaries, Holidays, and Observances for August 21, 2021
Many days there are far too many anniversaries, holidays, and observances to post about individually on social media, so in an effort to have more of them available, LLPHP is going to experiment with posting them daily. If there are other items you feel should be included, please email contact@llphp.org and share!
Please note all holidays and observances listed as “National” days are American holidays and observances unless it is stated otherwise.
On This Day
- International Day of Remembrance and Tribute to the Victims of Terrorism
- Internet Self Care Day
- Break the Monotony day
- 1321: 160 Jews of Chincon, France were burned at stake
- 1598: Deed of Transfers proclaimed independence for the Netherlands
- 1680: Pueblo Indians took possession of Santa Fé in the New Mexican Province, from Spanish
- 1718: Holy Roman Emperor Charles VI, Turkey, and Venice signed a peace treaty
- 1831: Former slave Nat Turner led an uprising against slavery
- 1926: Greeks rose up against Greek president and dictator Pangalos
- 1938: Italy barred all Jewish teachers in public schools
- 1991: Latvia declared independence from the USSR
- 1992: US Marshals moved in on Randy Weaver’s cabin in Ruby Ridge, Idaho to apprehend him on firearms charges starting an 11 day stand-off
- 1994: Typhoon Fred ravaged China’s Zhejiang County killing over 700 people
- 1997: Typhoon Winnie killed 140 people and injured 3,000 people in East China
- 1997: The US government forced the closure of Hudson Foods due to an E Coli break out
- 2001: The Red Cross announced that Tajikistan and Uzbekistan were experiencing a famine and called for international aid
- 2007: Hurricane Dean made its first landfall in Costa Maya, Mexico. It was the first storm since Hurricane Andrew to make landfall as a Category 5
- 2012: 20 people in the Democratic Republic of the Congo died from the Ebola virus
- 2013: 21 people were killed in flash floods in Qinghai Province, China
- 2019: 74,155 fires caused by land clearing were burning in the Amazon rain forest, the most ever recorded
- 2019: In a landmark towards eradication of the disease, Nigeria marked three years without a case of polio
Weekly Holidays and Observances including August 21, 2021
- Minority Enterprise Development Week (August 18-24)
August Monthly Holidays and Observances
- American Indian Heritage Month
- Black Business Month
- Cataract Awareness Month
- Fall of Empires Month
- Happiness Happens Month
- Home Business Month
- National Canning Month
- National FAS Disorders Awareness Month
- National Immunization Awareness Month
- National Inventors Month
- National Publish Your eBook Month
- National Runaway Prevention Month
- National Water Quality Month
- National Wellness Month
- National Win With Civility Month
- Professional Speakers Month
- What Will Be Your Legacy Month