Reuters historical calendar - August 21

LONDON, Aug 20 (Reuters) Following are some of the major events to have occurred on August 21 since 1900: 1911 - Leonardo da Vinci's painting of the Mona Lisa was stolen from the Louvre in Paris by an Italian waiter, Vicenzo Perruggia. It was recovered in 1913.

1944 - Representatives of the United States, Britain, Russia and China met at Dumbarton Oaks near Washington to plan the formation of the United Nations.

1961 - The United States and El Salvador signed the first Food for Peace agreement.

1982 - King Sobhuza II of Swaziland died aged 83. He had been on the throne since 1921.

1982 - After three months of fighting in Lebanon, a multinational force began supervising the evacuation of thousands of Palestinians.

1983 - Philippine opposition leader Benigno Aquino was assassinated moments after stepping off the plane carrying him home from three years in exile in the United States.

1988 - An earthquake measuring 6.7 on the Richter scale killed about 1,000 people on India's border with Nepal.

1989 - The British conservationist George Adamson, whose work featured in the film ''Born Free'', was murdered in Kenya.

1990 - The first pictures from Venus by the space probe Magellan showed features similar to volcanoes and valleys on Earth.

1991 - Latvia declared independence from the Soviet Union.

1991 - Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev declared he was back in full control after a 60-hour coup by Communist hardliners crumbled under popular resistance.

1994 - The last French troops pulled out of Rwanda, ending a controversial humanitarian mission.

1997 - The newly appointed Prime Minister of Afghanistan, Abdur Rahim Gaffurzai, was killed in a plane crash.

1999 - Tove Hansen, a member of the Danish resistance who helped thousands of Jews escape the Nazis by smuggling them into neutral Sweden, died aged 88.

2000 - President Laurent Kabila of the Democratic Republic of Congo inaugurated a transitional parliament, the first legislative body since he took power in May 1997.

2002 - Adelina Domingues died. She was believed to be the oldest person in the United States at 114 and the second oldest in the world. She was born on Feb. 19, 1888.

2002 - Former Enron Corp. executive Michael Kopper pleaded guilty to money laundering and fraud charges, becoming the first employee to admit a criminal role in the energy giant's collapse.

2005 - Robert Moog, whose name became synonymous with electronic music in the 1960s and '70s through the invention of his eponymous synthesisers, died aged 71.

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