This Day in History – August 21, 2011

1680 Pueblo Indians took possession of Santa F‚ from Spanish 1841 John Hampson patents venetian blind 1858 1st Lincoln-Douglas debate (Illinois) 1878 American Bar Association organizes at Sarasota, NY 1922 Curly Lambeau & Green Bay Football Club granted NFL franchise 1926 White Sox Ted Lyons no hits Red Sox 6-0 in just 67 minutes at Fenway 1945 Pres Truman ends Lend-Lease program 1949 NY Giants beat Phillies on a forfeit, due to fan’s throwing debris 1965 Gemini 5 launched into Earth orbit (2 astronauts) 1972 1st hot air balloon flight over the Alps 1972 US orbiting astronomy observatory Copernicus launched 1987 Clayton Lonetree, 1st marine court-martialed for spying, convicted 1989 Voyager 2 begins a flyby of the planet Neptune 1991 Communist coup is crushed in USSR in 2 days 1992 Ruby Ridge Standoff in Idaho 2007 Hurricane Dean makes its first landfall in Costa Maya, Mexico with winds at 165 mph (266 km/h). Dean is the first storm since Hurricane Andrew to make landfall as a Category 5. 2017 Next total solar eclipse visible from North America]]]]> ]]>