Take a scroll through a selection of historical events that took place on August 21.
1. 2007
Hurricane Dean made its first landfall in Costa Maya, Mexico, with winds of 165mph. Dean was the first storm since Hurricane Andrew in 1992 to make landfall as a Category 5. Photo: NOAA via Getty Images
2. 2014
An Israeli air strike in Rafah killed three of Hamas’s top commanders – Mohammed Abu Shammala, Raed al Atar and Mohammed Barhoum. Photo: SAID KHATIB
3. 1991
Soviet coup collapsed. Boris Yeltsin took over troops and Supreme Soviet legislative bodies reinstated president Mikhail Gorbachev as he returned from house arrest in the Crimea region. Photo: ANDRE DURAND
4. 1990
100,000 gathered in Prague’s Wenceslas Square for first free commemoration of 1968 Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia. Photo: LUBOMIR KOTEK