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August 21

Mona Lisa

1689 – Jacobite clans clashed with a regiment of Covenanters in the streets of Dunkeld, Scotland.
1789 – The national colours of Italy first appeared on a tricolour cockade in Genoa.
1911 – Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa (pictured) was stolen from the Louvre by museum employee Vincenzo Peruggia and was not recovered until two years later.
1944 – World War II: A combined Canadian–Polish force captured the town of Falaise, France, in the final offensive of the Battle of Normandy.
2007 – BioShock was released in North America, becoming a critical success and a demonstration of video games as an art form.

Alphonse, Count of Poitiers (d. 1271)
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (d. 1762)
Thomas S. Monson (b. 1927)
Frederick Seguier Drake (d. 1974)

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