August 21: the marriage of Timfei Khmelnitsky, the abduction of the Mona Lisa and "Gemini-5"

August 21, 1652 the son of Bogdan Khmelnitsky Timothy married the daughter of the Moldovan ruler Vasily Lupul, which was the reason for the resumption of the union of Moldova with Ukraine.

1825 - a museum of antiquities was opened in Odessa.

1831 - in Virginia, the largest in the US slave rebellion - Nate Turner with seven like-minded people killed his master and his entire family. After that, they began to incite the slaves.

1902 - "Cadillac", division of the concern "General Motors" for the production of luxury cars was founded. The sonorous name was given in memory of Antoine da La Motte Cadillac, the founder of the city of Detroit.

1911 - from the Louvre the portrait of the Mona Lisa is stolen. Two years later the picture was accidentally discovered in Florence. The detained later kidnapper named Vincenzo Perugia explained what he had done with the desire to restore justice by returning Italy stolen by Napoleon I a masterpiece.

1915 - The Moonsund operation was completed.

1924 - exactly ten years after Nagursky, the first Soviet pilot, Boris Grigoryevich Chukhnovsky, ascended to the sky of the Arctic.

1954 - in Yakutia, in the Daldyn river basin, the first radical diamond deposit was discovered - a kimberlite pipe called "Zarnitsa".

1965 - the spacecraft Gemini-5 was put into orbit.

1968 - about 200,000 military and 5,000 tanks of the Warsaw Pact countries entered the territory of Czechoslovakia to suppress the liberalization of the communist regime in the country that went down in history as the "Prague Spring".

1989 - research probe "Voyager 2" takes pictures of Triton, a satellite of the planet Neptune.

1996 - The Decree of the President of Ukraine Leonid Kuchma in Ukraine introduced a new award - the Order "For Courage", which is awarded to servicemen, law enforcement officers and others for personal courage and heroism shown in saving people and material values ​​during the liquidation of the consequences of emergencies, in combating crime, as well as in other cases when performing military, official, civilian duties in conditions that involve a risk to life.