August 21

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[edit] Events

• 1770 - James Cook formally claims eastern Australia for Great Britain, naming it New South Wales.
• 1831 - Nat Turner starts a slave rebellion.
• 1858 - The Lincoln-Douglas debates begin.
• 1878 - The American Bar Association is founded.
• 1942 - World War II: The Battle of Stalingrad began.
• 1959 - President Dwight D. Eisenhower signs an executive order proclaiming Hawaii the 50th state of the union.
• 1968 - Soviet Union-dominated Warsaw Pact troops invade Czechoslovakia, crushing the Prague Spring;
• 1991 - Coup attempt against Mikhail Gorbachev collapses.

[edit] Births

• 1950 - Arthur Bremer, failed assassin

[edit] Deaths

• 1940 - Leon Trotsky, Russian revolutionary (b. 1879)
• 1947 - Theodore G. Bilbo, American politician