Historical Events for 21st August 2026

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1968 - After five years, the Soviet Union once again jams Voice of America radio
1975 - Three-truck pile-up kills 10 and injures 26 on French highway
1977 - American water skier Donna Patterson Brice sets women's high speed record 111.11 mph at Long Beach, California
1986 - Red Sox Spike Owen scores 6 runs in a 24-5 rout of the Cleveland Indians
1994 - Royal Air Maroc ATR-42 crashes at Agadir, killing 44
2008 - American pair Misty May-Treanor and Kerri Walsh dominate China's Tian Jia and Wang Jie 21-18, 21-18 in the beach volleyball final to repeat their gold medal from Athens; they don't lose a set in the competition
2019 - 74,155 fires caused by land clearing are burning in the Amazon rainforest, the most ever recorded, according to Brazil's National Institute for Space Research
2023 - Saudi border guards are accused of killing hundreds of migrants, shooting them as they try to cross into the country from Yemen in a report by Human Rights Watch

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