August 21 in strange history
What strange thing happened on August 21? Here are the stories from our files for this date, each checked against sources.
The Lake Nyos Disaster (1986)
On the night of 21 August 1986 Lake Nyos in Cameroon released a huge cloud of carbon dioxide that flowed into the valleys below and killed about 1,700 people and thousands of cattle.
The Kelly-Hopkinsville 'Little Men' Siege (1955)
The Kelly-Hopkinsville encounter of 21 August 1955: what the Sutton family reported about a night-long siege by 'little men' on their Kentucky farm, and what police and investigators found.