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Day in History Archive August 21

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Note: These historical tidbits have been collected from various sources, mostly on the Internet. As detailed in this article, there is a lot of wrong information that is repeated hundreds of times because most websites do not validate with authoritative sources. On RF Cafe, events with hyperlinks have been verified. All will eventually be either verified or removed.

Please submit significant historical events and dates for inclusion in these lists. I will be glad to include your name and birthday. Please do not submit your death date ;-)

August 21

1858: The famous debates between senatorial contenders Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas began. 1878: The American Bar Association was founded in Saratoga, NY. 1888: William Burroughs of St. Louis, Missouri, received a patent on the first commercial adding machine. 1923: The first use of electric beacons mounted on the ground to provide sight direction for night flying is made. 1951: The U.S. ordered construction of the world's first atomic submarine, the Nautilus. 1965: Gemini V was launched into Earth orbit with Gordon Cooper and Charles Conrad aboard. 1972: Don Cameron became the first person to pilot a hot air balloon across the Alps. 1991: A hard-line coup against Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev collapsed in the face of a popular uprising led by Russian federation President Boris Yeltsin. 1993: Contact lost with the Mars Observer spacecraft. 1996: Netscape browser 3.0 was released. 2017: The next total solar eclipse will be visible from North America.

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