Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/Date

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.