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August 21st, 2007	Event	Hurricane Dean makes its first landfall in Costa Maya, Mexico with winds at 165 mph. Dean is the first storm since Hurricane Andrew to make landfall as a Category 5.
August 21st, 2001	Event	NATO decides to send a peace-keeping force to the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia.
August 21st, 2001	Event	The Red Cross announces that a famine is striking Tajikistan, and calls for international financial aid for Tajikistan and Uzbekistan.
August 21st, 1993	Event	NASA loses contact with the Mars Observer spacecraft.
August 21st, 1991	Event	Latvia declares renewal of its full independence after the occupation of Soviet Union.
August 21st, 1991	Event	Coup attempt against Mikhail Gorbachev collapses.
August 21st, 1986	Event	Carbon dioxide gas erupts from volcanic Lake Nyos in Cameroon, killing up to 1,800 people within a 20-kilometer range.
August 21st, 1983	Event	Philippine opposition leader Benigno Aquino, Jr. was assassinated at the Manila International Airport (now renamed Ninoy Aquino International Airport).
August 21st, 1976	Event	Operation Paul Bunyan at Panmunjeom, Korea.
August 21st, 1971	Event	A bomb exploded in the Liberal Party campaign rally in Plaza Miranda, Manila, Philippines with several anti-Marcos political candidates injured.

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