Today In History – 21 August 2020
Learn what happened today in history around the world including major events across the world!
Year: 1192
Minamoto Yoritomo becomes Seii Tai Shōgun and the de facto ruler of Japan. (Traditional Japanese date: July 12, 1192)
Year: 1540
Badauni Abdul Kadir, famous Muslim historian, was born. (India)
Year: 1703
The Edirne Event: Turkish army removes Sultan Mustafa II, lessening the power of the sultans
Year: 1772
King Gustav III of Sweden completes a coup d’etat by adopting a new Constitution and installing himself as an enlightened despot, ending 50 years of parliamentary rule
Year: 1879
Jahangir Bemanji Petit, famous industrialist, was born. (India)
Year: 1888
American inventor William Seward Burroughs patents the adding machine
Year: 1911
“Mona Lisa” stolen from the Louvre by Vincenzo Perugia (Recovered in 1913)
Year: 1959
Hawaii becomes the 50th US state
Year: 1991
Conservative coup in the Soviet Union is crushed by popular resistance led by Boris Yeltsin in three days
Year: 2018
Water-ice first detected on the Moon by India’s Chandrayaan-1 spacecraft (2008-9) in findings published by scientists
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