Portal:Speculative fiction/Anniversaries/August/August 21
Film releases
- 1981 - Mad Max 2, an Australian post-apocalyptic action film directed by George Miller
Television series
- 1982 - Flash Gordon: The Greatest Adventure of All, an animated television film produced by Filmation
- 1989 - Prisoners of Gravity, Canadian public broadcasting television news magazine program that explored speculative fiction, begins airing on TVOntario
Births
- 1862 - Emilio Salgari (d. 1911), an Italian writer of action adventure swashbucklers and a pioneer of science fiction in Italy
- 1911 - Anthony Boucher (d. 1968), an American science fiction editor and author of mystery novels and short stories
Anniversaries and events
- 1933 - Brick Bradford, a science fiction comic strip created by writer William Ritt, begins serialization