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August 21
What happened on this day
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Mona Lisa stolen
115 years ago
Vincenzo Peruggia walks out of the Louvre with the painting in 1911.
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Nat Turner's rebellion
195 years ago
Enslaved people rise in Southampton County, Virginia in 1831 in the deadliest slave revolt in US history; the reprisals and new slave codes that follow are severe.
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Hawaii becomes a state
67 years ago
Hawaii is admitted as the 50th US state in 1959.
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Ninoy Aquino assassinated
43 years ago
The opposition leader is shot on the airport tarmac in Manila in 1983, moments after returning from exile; the outrage builds into the People Power revolt.
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Prague Spring crushed
58 years ago
Warsaw Pact tanks enter Czechoslovakia overnight in 1968, ending eight months of reform under Alexander Dubček.
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