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August 21, 1953 (Friday)

Time Zone: America/New_York (GMT-05:00)

• Day numbers: 233

• Week number: 34

• Leap year: 1953 is not a leap year

• Daylight Saving Time: Yes

Sunrise, Sunset Times for August 21, 1953 (Friday)

• Sunrise time: 06:50 am

• Sunset time: 08:22 pm

• Day length: 13h 31m

• Source: suntoday.org

Moon Phase for August 21, 1953 (Friday)

• Moon Phase: Waxing Gibbous

• Illumination: 88%

• Moon Age: 11.51 day(s)

• Source: mooninfo.org

August 21, 1953 Holidays and National Days

August 21 in History

2001
NATO decides to send a peacekeeping force to the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia.
2000
Tiger Woods wins golf’s PGA Championship, the first golfer to win 3 majors in a calendar year since Ben Hogan in 1953.
1996
The new Globe theater opens in England.
1994
Ernesto Zedillo wins Mexico’s presidential election.
1991
Communist hardliners’ coup is crushed in USSR after just 2 days; Latvia declares independence from USSR.
1989
Voyager 2 begins a flyby of planet Neptune.
1988
Ceasefire in the 8-year war between Iran and Iraq.
1986
In Cameroon 2,000 die from poison gas from a volcanic eruption.
1976
Mary Langdon in Battle, East Sussex, becomes Britain’s first firewoman.
1976
Operation Paul Bunyan: after North Korean guards killed two American officers sent to trim a poplar tree along the DMZ on Aug. 18, US and ROK soldiers with heavy support chopped down the tree.
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