On Aug. 21, 1680, Pueblo Indians captured Santa Fe after driving out the Spanish.
In 1831 former slave Nat Turner led a violent anti-slavery insurrection in Virginia’s Southampton County. (After his capture, he was hanged Nov. 11, 1831.)
In 1858 senatorial contenders Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas held the first of their seven famous debates.
In 1878 a group of lawyers, judges and law professors founded the American Bar Association in Saratoga, N.Y.
In 1940 exiled Bolshevik revolutionary Leon Trotsky, 61, died of ax wounds inflicted by an assassin in Mexico City.
In 1945 President Harry Truman ended the massive Lend-Lease program that had shipped $50 billion in aid to Allies during World War II.
In 1959 President Dwight Eisenhower signed an executive order proclaiming Hawaii the 50th state.
In 1971 Soledad Brother inmate George Jackson was one of six people killed in what was described as an attempted breakout at California’s San Quentin Prison.
In 1982 Palestine Liberation Organization guerrillas began pulling out of Beirut under pressure from invading Israeli troops.
In 1986 more than 1,700 people in Cameroon died as a result of a toxic gas cloud that escaped from a volcanic crater.
In 1988 more than 1,000 people were killed in an earthquake along the Nepal-India border.
