Daily Calendar for Friday, August 21, 2026

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Asher Brown Durand (American painter) – 1796
Aubrey Beardsley (illustrator) – 1872
Count Basie (bandleader) – 1904
Christopher Robin Milne (A. A. Milne’s son who he modeled Christopher Robin after in the Winnie the Pooh stories) – 1920
Princess Margaret (younger sister of Queen Elizabeth II) – 1930
Wilt Chamberlain (basketball player) – 1936
Kenny Rogers (singer) – 1938
Clarence Williams, III (actor) – 1939
Kim Cattrall (actress) – 1956
Jim McMahon (football player) – 1959
Carrie-Anne Moss (actress) – 1967
Usain Bolt (Olympic sprinter ) – 1986
Hayden Panettiere (actress) – 1989

Nat Turner, a deeply religious enslaved man, led a violent rebellion of enslaved people in Southampton County, Virginia – 1831
The American Bar Association was founded – 1878
William S. Burroughs received a patent for an adding machine – 1888
Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa was stolen by a Louvre employee, Vincenzo Peruggia – 1911
Arthur R. Eldred became the first Eagle Scout, the highest rank in the Boy Scouts of America – 1912
United Nations building opened in New York City – 1950
Family claimed home invaded by goblin-like space creatures, Kelly, KY – 1955
Hawaii became the U.S.’s fiftieth state – 1959
Executive Order for a 50-star U.S. flag issued – 1959
Gemini 5 was launched and went on to break a record, spending eight days in space – 1965
Four men possibly abducted by UFO, Allagash waterway, Maine – 1976
The Young and the Restless shot its 10,000th episode – 2012

Deadly tornado hit Wilmington Delaware – 1888
Tornado hit Tyler, Michigan – 1918
The temperature in Fayetteville, North Carolina, reached a record high 110 degrees F – 1983
Hurricane Dean hit the Caribbean coast of Mexico as a Category 5 hurricane – 2007
Tropical Storm Fay made landfall in Florida for the third time in a week. Fay was the fourth storm in history to make landfall as a tropical storm three times. – 2008
Deadly tornado struck Goderich, Ontario – 2011
Historic heatwave roasts the central United States, with high temperatures combining with high dewpoints to create Heat Indices as high as 134°F (Lawrenceville, Kansas: Aug. 20, Aug. 21). – 2023 , – 2023 , – 2023 , – 2023 , – 2023