August 21st
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- 2015
After 108 years, a message in a bottle put into the sea by the UK Marine Biological Association is found on a beach in Amrum, Germany View Post →
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- 1888
American inventor William Seward Burroughs patents the adding machine
- 1911
The Mona Lisa is stolen from the Louvre by employee Vincenzo Peruggia
- 1942
Walt Disney's animated movie Bambi, based on the book by Felix Salten, is released
- 1949
Canada's largest earthquake since 1700, with a magnitude of 8.1, strikes the Queen Charlotte Fault below Haida Gwaii, knocking cows off their feet
- 1959
Hawaii becomes the 50th state
- 1969
The first Gap clothing store opens on Ocean Avenue in San Francisco
- 1986
Usain Bolt, Jamaican sprinter, is born
- 1993
NASA loses contact with the Mars Observer spacecraft. The mission cost $980 million
- 2019
The Rock (Dwayne Johnson) is named the highest paid actor for a second year in a row, earning $89.4 million
