February 7 » A Chinese immigrant in San Francisco falls ill to bubonic plague in the first plague epidemic in the continental United States.
May 17 » Second Boer War: British troops relieve Mafeking.
June 9 » Indian nationalist Birsa Munda dies of cholera in a British prison.
June 20 » Boxer Rebellion: The Imperial Chinese Army begins a 55-day siege of the Legation Quarter in Beijing, China.
June 21 » Boxer Rebellion. China formally declares war on the United States, Britain, Germany, France and Japan, as an edict issued from the Empress Dowager Cixi.
November 7 » The People's Party is founded in Cuba.
Day of death August 21, 1961
The temperature on August 21, 1961 was between 14.1 °C and 17.2 °C and averaged 15.8 °C. There was 15.2 mm of rain during 5.6 hours. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest. Source: KNMI
January 23 » The Portuguese luxury cruise ship Santa Maria is hijacked by opponents of the Estado Novo regime with the intention of waging war until dictator António de Oliveira Salazar is overthrown.
January 27 » The Soviet submarine S-80 sinks when its snorkel malfunctions, flooding the boat.
February 27 » The first congress of the Spanish Trade Union Organisation is inaugurated.
March 1 » United States President John F. Kennedy establishes the Peace Corps.
May 24 » American civil rights movement: Freedom Riders are arrested in Jackson, Mississippi, for "disturbing the peace" after disembarking from their bus.
May 31 » In Moscow City Court, the Rokotov–Faibishenko show trial begins, despite the Khrushchev Thaw to reverse Stalinist elements in Soviet society.
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