This site was created to easily navigate collection of various events in history. History is the study of the past, particularly the written record of the human race, but more generally including scientific and archaeological discoveries about the past. It is important to know dates and events in the past.

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August 21st, 2007	Event	Hurricane Dean makes its first landfall in Costa Maya, Mexico with winds at 165 mph. Dean is the first storm since Hurricane Andrew to make landfall as a Category 5.
August 21st, 2007	Death	Siobhan Dowd, British/Irish writer (born in 1960)
August 21st, 2007	Death	Elizabeth P. Hoisington, American Brigadier General (born in 1918)
August 21st, 2007	Death	Haley Paige, American pornographic actress (born in 1981)
August 21st, 2006	Death	Paul Fentener van Vlissingen, Dutch businessman and philanthropist (born in 1941)
August 21st, 2006	Death	Ustad Bismillah Khan, Indian musician (born in 1916)
August 21st, 2005	Death	Marcus Schmuck, Austrian mountaineer (born in 1925)
August 21st, 2005	Death	Robert Moog, American pioneer of electronic music (born in 1934)
August 21st, 2005	Death	Dahlia Ravikovitch, Israeli poet (born in 1936)
August 21st, 2005	Death	Martin Dillon, tenor, American opera singer (born in 1957)

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