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August 21

A subject assigned as a prisoner breaks down

1716 – Seventh Ottoman–Venetian War: Ottoman forces suddenly abandoned their siege of Corfu, allowing the Republic of Venice to preserve its rule over the Ionian Islands.
1945 – American physicist Harry Daghlian accidentally dropped a tungsten carbide brick onto a plutonium bomb core, exposing himself to neutron radiation and later becoming the first Manhattan Project fatality due to a criticality accident.
1971 – The Stanford prison experiment (pictured) ended early after subjects assigned as guards began abusing subjects assigned as prisoners.
1986 – A limnic eruption of Lake Nyos in Cameroon released a cloud of carbon dioxide, suffocating 1,746 people and 3,500 livestock.
2013 – Syrian civil war: Areas controlled by the Syrian opposition in Ghouta, Damascus, were attacked by rockets containing sarin, killing at least 281 people.

Juan de Tassis, 2nd Count of Villamediana (d. 1622)
Emily Tinne (b. 1886)
Emma Mashinini (b. 1929)
Frederick Seguier Drake (d. 1974)

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