What happend on 21st August

20.08
22.08
2005

Pope Benedict XVI concludes World Youth Day with a mass. Over 800,000 people attended the closing liturgy.

2004

A grenade attack on Bangladesh Awamee League, the bigest political party in Bangladesh kills 22 and injures more than a thousand, including party president Sheikh Hasina.

2002

Jean Chrétien, Prime Minister of Canada, announces that he will not seek re-election and would resign within eighteen months.

2001

The Red Cross announces that a famine is striking Tajikistan, and calls for international financial aid for Tajikistan and Uzbekistan.

2001

A sixth-century temple is discovered in central Mexico.

2001

NATO decides to send a peace-keeping force to the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia.

1998

The United States destroys a pharmaceutical plant (erroneously believed to be a chemical weapons plant) in Sudan.

1997

The British Rock Group Oasis release album, Be Here Now.

1993

NASA loses contact with the Mars Observer spacecraft.

1991

Latvia declares its full independence from the Soviet Union.