| Track | Year | Event | Artist | Song | Album |
| 1. | 1680 | Pueblo Indians capture Santa Fe from Spanish during the Pueblo Revolt. | Pipes You See, Pipes You Don't | Pueblo | Individualized |
| 2. | 1831 | Nat Turner leads black slaves and free blacks in a rebellion. | The Deal | Revolt | Who's Pulling Your Strings |
| 3. | 1878 | The American Bar Association is founded. | Belle and Sebastian | Legal Man | Legal Man |
| 4. | 1888 | The first successful adding machine in the United States is patented by William Seward Burroughs. | Major Organ and the Adding Machine | Waking in the Sun | Major Organ and the Adding Machine |
| 5. | 1936 | Wilt Chamberlain, American basketball player is born. (d. 1999) | Statistics | Chairman of the Board | Leave Your Name |
| 6. | 1911 | The Mona Lisa is stolen by a Louvre employee. | Nancy Sinatra | The Shadow of Your Smile | How Does That Grab You |
| 7. | 1945 | Physicist Harry K. Daghlian, Jr. is fatally irradiated in a criticality incident during an experiment with the Demon core at Los Alamos National Laboratory. | Suicide | Radiation | The Second Album |
| 8. | 1959 | President Dwight D. Eisenhower signs an executive order proclaiming Hawaii the 50th state of the union. Hawaii's admission is currently commemorated by Hawaii Admission Day | The Beach Boys | Hawaii | Rarities Vol 10 (live 1964 and 1967) |
(Historical facts about August 21 are from Wikipedia)
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