Take a scroll through a selection of historical events that took place on August 21.
. People look at the remains of a destroyed house on Mahahual's beach, 80 km from Chetumal, 22 August 2007, after the passage of Hurricane Dean. The hurricane made landfall in the beaches of Mahahual, destroying most of the constructions in this tiny resort by the Caribbean sea. A weakened Dean swirled over the Gulf of Mexico amid warnings the killer storm could regain some of its lost punch when it makes a second landfall in central Mexico on Wednesday. After slamming onto Mexico's Caribbean coast as a monstrous category five storm Tuesday, Dean was downgraded to category one as it pushed back out into the Gulf to pound Mexico's offshore oil platforms. AFP PHOTO/OMAR TORRES (Photo credit should read OMAR TORRES/AFP via Getty Images)
People look at the remains of a destroyed house on Mahahual's beach, 80 km from Chetumal, 22 August 2007, after the passage of Hurricane Dean., which made landfall in the beaches of Mexico on August 21, 2007. Photo: OMAR TORRES
. 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
. 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
. 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
. 1990
100,000 gathered in Prague’s Wenceslas Square for first free commemoration of 1968 Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia. Photo: LUBOMIR KOTEK
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