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Friday, 21 August 2026

2007

Hurricane Dean makes its first landfall in Costa Maya, Mexico with winds at {{convert|165|mph|0|abbr=on}}. Dean is the first storm since Hurricane Andrew to make landfall as a Category 5.

2001

NATO decides to send a peace-keeping force to the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia.

The Red Cross announces that a famine is striking Tajikistan, and calls for international financial aid for Tajikistan and Uzbekistan.

1993

NASA loses contact with the Mars Observer spacecraft.

1992

Ruby Ridge Standoff in Idaho

1991

Latvia declares renewal of its full independence after the occupation of Soviet Union.

Coup attempt against Mikhail Gorbachev collapses.

1986

Carbon dioxide gas erupts from volcanic Lake Nyos in Cameroon, killing up to 1,800 people within a 20-kilometer range.

1983

Philippine opposition leader Benigno Aquino, Jr. is assassinated at the Manila International Airport (now renamed ''Ninoy Aquino International Airport'').

1976

Operation Paul Bunyan at Panmunjeom, Korea.

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