What is August 21?
{{calendar}} {{day}} == Events == === Up to 1900 === * [[1140]] &ndash; [[China]]: [[Song Dynasty]] general [[Yue Fei]] defeats an [[army]] led by [[Jin Dynasty]] general [[Wanyan Wuzhu]] at the [[Battle of Yancheng]] during the [[Jin-Song Wars]]. * [[1192]] &ndash; [[Minamoto Yoritomo]] becomes de facto ruler of [[Japan]]. * [[1526]] &ndash; Spanish explorer [[Alonso de Salazar]] reaches the [[Marshall Islands]] in the [[Pacific Ocean]]. * [[1680]] &ndash; Pueblo [[Native American]]s capture [[Santa Fe, New Mexico|Santa Fe]] from the Spanish during the Pueblo Revolt. * [[1689]] &ndash; The [[Battle of Dunkeld]] takes place in [[Scotland]]. * [[1728]] &ndash; [[Vitus Bering]] discovers [[Saint Lawrence Island]] in the now–named [[Bering Sea]]. * [[1770]] &ndash; [[James Cook]] formally claims eastern [[Australia]] for [[Great Britain]], naming it [[New South Wales]]. * [[1772]] &ndash; Half a century of [[parliament]]ary rule in [[Sweden]] is ended when King [[Gustav III of Sweden|Gustav III]] adopts a new [[constitution]]. * [[1778]] &ndash; [[American Revolutionary War]]: British forces begin besieging the French outpost of [[Pondicherry]] in [[India]]. * [[1810]] &ndash; The [[Sweden|Swedish]] [[parliament]] elects [[Jean-Baptiste Bernadotte]] as crown prince. * [[1821]] &ndash; [[Jarvis Island]] is discovered by the crew of the [[ship]] ''Eliza Frances''. * [[1831]] &ndash; [[Nat Turner]] leads black [[slave]]s and free blacks in a rebellion. * [[1842]] &ndash; The city of [[Hobart]], capital of [[Tasmania]], is founded. * [[1852]] &ndash; [[Tlingit]]s destroy Fort Selkirk, [[Yukon]]. * [[1858]] &ndash; In the [[United States]], the first in a series of debates takes place between [[Abraham Lincoln]] and [[Stephen A. Douglas]]. * [[1863]] &ndash; [[Lawrence, Kansas]] is destroyed by [[Confederate States of America|Confederate]] troops. * [[1883]] &ndash; A Force 5 [[tornado]] strikes [[Rochester, Minnesota|Rochester]], [[Minnesota]]. * [[1888]] &ndash; The first successful adding [[machine]] in the [[US]] is