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On This Day, August 21
- 2017: A solar eclipse traverses the continental United States.
- 2013: Hundreds of people are reported killed by chemical attacks in the Ghouta region of Syria.
- 2000: American golfer Tiger Woods wins the 82nd PGA Championship and becomes the first golfer since Ben Hogan in 1953 to win three majors in a calendar year.
- 1995: Atlantic Southeast Airlines Flight 529, an Embraer EMB 120 Brasilia, attempts to divert to West Georgia Regional Airport after the left engine fails, but the aircraft crashes in Carroll County near Carrollton, Georgia, killing nine of the 29 people on board.
- 1994: Royal Air Maroc Flight 630 crashes in Douar Izounine, Morocco, killing all 44 people on board.