Wikipedia:Main Page history/2015 August 21

Sepia dun winged adult

• ... that the sepia dun mayfly (pictured) can be an alternate host for the nematode Cystidicoloides tenuissima, a parasite of trout and salmon?
• ... that the queenship of Blanche of Artois seemed perfect until her only son was dropped from the castle walls by his nurse?
• ... that a sea monster figurehead has been recovered from the wreckage of Gribshunden, a 15th-century Danish warship?
• ... that Palokë Nika, who founded the oldest Albanian football club, KF Vllaznia Shkodër, was the first coach of KF Tirana?
• ... that the Benjamin Loxley house is noted in history as the place where a Quakeress overheard secret British plans and passed them on to George Washington, saving the Continental Army?
• ... that the feature film
  Andrés Muschietti
  's "scariest" short film?
• ... that the sacred geography of Varanasi is known as the "microcosm of India"?
• ... that Howard Wiest, who never finished high school or attended law school, became Chief Justice of the Michigan Supreme Court?

Jason Day

• A bomb explosion in Bangkok, Thailand, kills 20 people and injures more than 120 others.
• In golf,
  Jason Day (pictured) wins the PGA Championship
  .
• The Netball World Cup concludes with Australia defeating New Zealand in the final.
• Trigana Air Service Flight 257 crashes in Papua
  , Indonesia, killing all 54 passengers and crew.

• Ongoing events
• Recent deaths
  :
  • Khaled al-Asaad
  • Jacob Bekenstein
  • Julian Bond

August 21: Youth Day and King Mohammed's Birthday in Morocco; Ninoy Aquino Day in the Philippines

Lincoln

Douglas

• Jacobite risings: Jacobite clans supporting the deposed king James VII of Scotland clashed with a government regiment of Covenanters supporting William of Orange, in the streets around Dunkeld Cathedral, Dunkeld
  , Scotland.
• 1858 – The first of seven debates between Abraham Lincoln and Stephen A. Douglas (both pictured), candidates for an Illinois seat in the United States Senate, was held in Ottawa, Illinois.
• delta phase plutonium bomb core and exposed himself to a lethal dose of neutron radiation, becoming the first known fatality due to a criticality accident
  25 days later.
• 1986 – A limnic eruption of a cloud of carbon dioxide from Lake Nyos in Cameroon killed up to 1,700 people and 3,500 livestock in nearby villages.
• Ghouta suburbs of Damascus
  , resulting in at least 281 deaths.

• More anniversaries:
  • August 20
  • August 21
  • August 22