This Day In History
August 21
1942
World War II: the Guadalcanal campaign: American forces defeat an attack by Imperial Japanese Army soldiers in the Battle of the Tenaru.
1944
Dumbarton Oaks Conference, prelude to the United Nations, begins.
1968
Soviet Union-dominated Warsaw Pact troops invade Czechoslovakia, crushing the Prague Spring; on the same day, Nicolae Ceauºescu, leader of Communist Romania, publicly condemns the Soviet maneuver.
1982
Lebanese Civil War: The first troops of a multinational force lands in Beirut to oversee the Palestine Liberation Organization's withdrawal from Lebanon.
1983
Philippine opposition leader Benigno Aquino, Jr. is assassinated at the Manila International Airport
1991
Latvia declares renewal of its full independence after the occupation of Soviet Union.
1991
Coup attempt against Mikhail Gorbachev collapses.
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