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On This Day...
Aug 21 1996
Superfreak Rick James (prisoner J29237) is released from Folsom Prison after serving a two year sentence for drugs and assault.
He had planned to marry his fiance, Tanja Anne Hijazi, upon release but she had been nicked for shoplifting a pair of boots two days earlier.
They do make a cute couple.
Aug 21 1995
Ex-world heavyweight champion Mike Tyson wins his first fight since his release from jail, knocking out Peter McNeely in 89 seconds.
Aug 21 1991
The communist hard-liner coup against Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev ends with the arrest of the seven living conspirators.
On August 18, the coup leaders, who were critical of his liberal reforms, detained Gorbachev.
Claiming that he had fallen ill and was unfit to rule, the conspirators attempted to form an emergency government.
However, they failed to arrest the popularly elected Russian President Boris Yeltsin, who rallied opposition to the coup at the Russian Parliament building.
After a tense standoff, the army defected to Yeltsin's side, and the coup collapsed.
Gorbachev recognized Yeltsin's new authority, and the Communist Party was dissolved.
The Soviet republics were granted independence, and by 1992 the United Soviet Socialist Republic no longer existed.
Aug 21 1986
1,700 people are killed in Cameroon when Lake Nyos emits a huge cloud of fast-moving fog, quickly enveloping the villages of Nyos, Kam, Cha, and Subum.
The lethal mist, consisting mainly of carbon dioxide and water vapor, displaces the oxygen in the low-lying zones, killing thousands of cattle and even more birds and wild animals.
One eyewitness later describes the landscape as being "littered with human remains and animal carcasses."
Aug 21 1985
Just seconds after stepping off the plane, opposition candidate Benigno Aquino is gunned down by assassins at Manila Int'l Airport, on orders of Philippine president Ferdinand Marcos.
Aug 21 1976
Mary Langdon, aged 25, becomes Britian's first female firefighter when she joins the East Sussex Brigade.
Aug 21 1962
Savannah, the world's first nuclear-powered merchant ship, begins its' maiden voyage.
Aug 21 1959
Hawaii becomes the 50th state of the USA.
Aug 21 1911
Leonardo da Vinci masterpiece Mona Lisa is stolen from the Louvre Gallery in Paris by Italian waiter Vinvenzo Perruggia posing as an official photographer.The painting is recovered 2 years later.
Aug 21 1901
Founding of the Cadillac Motor Company in Detroit, Michigan, USA named after the French explorer Antoine Cadillac.
Aug 21 1858
Victoria Cross winner Sir Sam Browne invents the Sam Browne belt to hold his sword and pistol after he had lost an arm in action.
It soon becomes standard military kit.
Aug 21 1808
French forces, commanded by General Junot, are beaten by the British, lead by the Duke of Wellington, at the Battle of Virniero.
Aug 21 1614
Erzsebet Bathory, ruler of Transylvania, dies at 54.
She had sought immortality by killing young virgins and bathing in their blood.
It didn't work.
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Quote: Aug 21 1614
Erzsebet Bathory, ruler of Transylvania, dies at 54.
She had sought immortality by killing young virgins and bathing in their blood.
It didn't work.
It would probably be even more difficult to make it work these days.
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Fascinating snippets, Simon.
Thanks for posting .
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