21 AUGUST

1192 Minamoto Yoritomo becomes Seii Tai Shōgun and the de facto ruler of Japan. (Traditional Japanese date: July 12, 1192)

1703 The Edirne Event: Turkish army removes Sultan Mustafa II, lessening the power of the sultans

1772 King Gustav III of Sweden completes coup d'etat by adopting a new Constitution and installing himself as an enlightened despot - ends 50 years of parliamentary rule

1888 American inventor William Seward Burroughs patents the adding machine

1911 "Mona Lisa" stolen from the Louvre by Vincenzo Perugia (Recovered in 1913)

1959 Hawaii becomes the 50th US state

1991 Conservative coup in the Soviet Union is crushed by popular resistance led by Boris Yeltsin in three days

2000 82nd PGA Championship: Tiger Woods become the first golfer since Ben Hogan in 1953 to win 3 majors in a calendar year. He ties the to-par record for the PGA (-18) with Bob May, and wins in a playoff

Famous Birthday's:

Bugs Moran
(1891 - 1957)

Wilt Chamberlain
(1936 - 1999)

Usain Bolt
31st Birthday

Famous Death's:

Elizabeth Báthory
(1560 - 1614)

Leon Trotsky
(1879 - 1940)

Famous Weddings:

1745 Future Russian Tsar Peter III marries Ekaterina Alexeievna later Catherine II (Catherine the Great)

1929 Painter Diego Rivera (42) weds fellow artist Frida Kahlo (22)

1956 Boxing champ Archie Moore (42) weds model Joan Hardy in Ensenada, Mexico

1976 Magazine publisher Larry Flynt (33) weds Althea Leasure (23)

1982 U2 lead singer Bono (22) weds activist and businesswoman Ali Hewson (21)