August 21 in History
1165
Birth of Philip II, King of France; he was one of the chief consolidators of the early French monarchy.
1911
Leonardo da Vinci's painting of the Mona Lisa is stolen from the Louvre in Paris by an Italian waiter, Vicenzo Perruggia. It was recovered in 1913.
1941
Death of Vietnamese revolutionary Phung Chi Kien (born 1901). Together with Le Hong Phong and Ha Huy Tap, he organised the Indochinese Communist Party's Congress in 1934 and was elected to the Party Central Committee during the congress. Kien was arrested and executed by the French in 1941.
1944
Representatives of the US, Britain, Russia and China meet at Dumbarton Oaks near Washington to plan for the formation of the United Nations.
1959
Hawaii is admitted as the 50th state of the United States.
1973
The Democratic Republic of Viet Nam and Canada set up ambassadorial level diplomatic relations.
1990
The first pictures from Venus by the space probe Magellan show features similar to volcanoes and valleys on Earth.
2000
Efforts to reach the sunken Russian nuclear submarine Kursk end when divers say none of the 118 sailors on aboard survived the catastrophic explosion on the Barents Sea.
2007
Saddam Hussein's cousin known as "Chemical Ali" and 14 others go on trial on charges of crimes against humanity in the brutal suppression of a Shiite uprising that killed tens of thousands after the 1991 Gulf War. — AP/REUTERS
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More than 2,500 people attended a talk by Nick Vujicic, an inspirational speaker without arms and legs, at the White Palace Conference Centre in HCM City's Tan Binh District yesterday.
A two-hour power failure caused by an incident on the 500kV north-south transmission line hindered road traffic in many southern provinces and HCM City yesterday afternoon.
Hand-Foot-Mouth disease (HFMD) is now at its peak, having infected a total of 796 children in HCM City in April, an increase of 127 per cent against the same period last year.
After welded steel pipes and steel wire garment hangers, now welded stainless pressure pipe from Viet Nam continue to face charges of dumping in the US.
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