"Rare Total Solar Eclipse Captivates U.S. on This Day"

On August 21, in history, Nat Turner led a slave insurrection in Virginia in 1831, the Mona Lisa was stolen from the Louvre in 1911, Benny Goodman's concert marked the start of the swing era in 1935, Leon Trotsky was assassinated in Mexico City in 1940, and the USS Nautilus, the world's first atomic submarine, was ordered to be built in 1951. In 1959, Hawaii became the 50th state of the United States, and in 1983, Benigno Aquino Jr. was assassinated in the Philippines. In 1986, the Lake Nyos disaster in Cameroon claimed over 1,700 lives, while in 1991, Boris Yeltsin crushed an attempted coup against Mikhail Gorbachev. In 2009, the H1N1 virus caused deaths and hospitalizations in the United States. In 2011, Libyan rebels took control of Tripoli, and in 2013, Bradley Manning was sentenced for leaking classified documents. In 2017, the United States witnessed its first total solar eclipse in 38 years, and in 2020, Lori Loughlin and Mossimo Giannulli were sentenced for their involvement in a college admissions scam. In 2021, heavy rains caused flooding in Middle Tennessee, resulting in fatalities and significant damage.