Today is Wednesday, August twenty first, the 234th day of the 12 months 2024. There are 132 days left within the 12 months.

Today in history:

On August 21, 1831, Nat Turner instigated a violent slave revolt in Virginia by which a minimum of 55 white people were killed. Following the revolt, quite a few black people were killed in revenge and Turner himself was later executed.

Also on this date:

In 1858, the primary of seven debates took place between Illinois Senate candidates Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas.

In 1944, the United States, Great Britain, the Soviet Union and China began talks at Dumbarton Oaks in Washington that paved the way in which for the creation of the United Nations.

In 1959, President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed an executive order making Hawaii the fiftieth state.

In 1983, Filipino politician Benigno Aquino Jr. was assassinated as he disembarked from a plane at Manila International Airport. (His widow, Corazon Aquino, became President of the Philippines three years later.)

In 1991, a hard-line coup against Soviet President Mikhail S. Gorbachev failed within the face of a preferred rebellion led by Russian President Boris N. Yeltsin.

In 1992, an eleven-day siege of the white separatist hut began Randy Weaver in Ruby Ridge, Idaho, when government agents attempted to arrest Weaver for failure to look in court on charges that he had sold two illegal sawed-off shotguns. On the primary day of the siege, Weaver's teenage son Samuel and Deputy U.S. Marshal William Degan were killed.

In 1993, NASA suffered a serious setback: engineers lost contact with the Mars Observer space probe because it was attempting to achieve the red planet as a part of a $980 million mission.

In 2000, rescue efforts for the sunken Russian nuclear submarine Kursk ended with the report that not one of the 118 sailors had survived.

In 2010, Iranian and Russian engineers began loading fuel into Iran's first nuclear power plant. Moscow promised to guard the plant and forestall the fabric there from getting used to supply potential weapons.

In 2015, three Americans, including US Air Force Staff Sergeant Spencer Stone, National Guardsman Alek Skarlatos and student Anthony Sadler, met with British businessman Chris Norman. overpowered and disarmed a Moroccan gunman on a high-speed train between Amsterdam and Paris.

In 2017 Americans experienced their first complete coast-to-coast solar eclipse since World War Iwith eclipse observers gathering along a path of totality stretching 2,600 miles across the continent

In 2018, Michael Cohen, President Donald Trump’s former personal lawyer and mediator, pleaded guilty to campaign finance violations and other charges; Cohen said Trump directed him to rearrange for hush money payments to porn star Stormy Daniels and former Playboy model Karen McDougal to stave off damage to his pursuit of a White House seat. (Trump was found guilty in May 2024 on 34 counts of falsifying business records related to the payments.)

In 2020, a former police officer often known as the Golden State Killer, Joseph James DeAngelo, told victims and relations in a Sacramento courtroom that he was “sincerely sorry” before being sentenced to multiple life sentences for a ten-year series of rapes and murders.

Today's birthdays:

• James Burton, member of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, is 85.
• Singer Jackie DeShannon is 83.
• Film director Peter Weir is 80.
• Willie Lanier, a member of the Football Hall of Fame, is 79.
• Actress Loretta Devine is 75.
• Two-time Heisman Trophy winner Archie Griffin is 70.
• Actor Kim Cattrall is 68.
• Former NFL quarterback Jim McMahon is 65.
• Rock musician Serj Tankian (System of a Down) is 57.
• Actress Carrie-Anne Moss is 57.
• Google co-founder Sergei Brin is 51.
• Singer Kelis (kuh-LEES) is 45.
• TV star Brody Jenner is 41.
• Olympic sprint gold medalist Usain (yoo-SAYN') Bolt is 38.
• Country singer Kacey Musgraves is 36.
• Football player Robert Lewandowski is 36.
• Actor Hayden Panettiere (pan'-uh-tee-EHR') is 35.
• Comedian, singer and filmmaker Bo Burnham is 34.

Originally published: August 21, 2024 at 01:00

In a brand new interview with British Vogue, Sophie Turner says the vicious “mother-shaming” she endured by the hands of the media last yr, right after her shocking split from Joe Jonas, were “the worst days” of her life.

Still, the British actor is decided to develop a “functional co-parenting relationship” with Jonas for the sake of their daughters, ages 4 and a pair of – whilst the ex-couple remain busy sharing parenting duties once they're on the town He is predicated within the United Kingdom and lives within the United States.

“I am unhappy with the way everything has turned out, especially when it comes to my children,” Turner said told British Vogue. “They are the victims of all this. But I think we’re doing our best.”

Turner seems like she's attempting to be pretty gracious about those “worst few days” in September 2023, which could also be coming from Jonas himself – or from his PR team and others allied with the pop idol – yet was tightened.

Immediately after news broke that Jonas had filed for divorce from Turner after 4 years of marriage, stories spread across gossip sites and tabloids portraying the Game of Thrones star as an immature, party-loving 27-year-old be, absent mother.

“It hurt because as a mother, every move I make is in complete agony,” she said. “Mother guilt is so real! I had to maintain telling myself, 'None of that is true.' You're a superb mother and also you've never been a partygoer.'”

The stories also included the narrative that Turner shirked her parental responsibilities by missing out on a carefree youth by spending her teenage years working on “Game of Thrones” and other projects.

Turner doesn't say whether the mother-shaming hurt even more because of the widespread view that some of the negative stories about her appeared to come from people aligned with her estranged husband.

For example, in a September 3, 2023 story about the couple's shocking divorce: TMZ portrayed the pop idol as a loving father. He quoted people who said he had been busy caring for their young daughters “pretty much all the time” over the past few months. At the time, Turner was in the UK working on the streaming series Joan while Jonas was on tour with his brothers in America.

People wondered whether Jonas and his people wanted to lay the groundwork for an argument that he should become the girls' primary caretaker, anticipating that the divorce could lead to a high-stakes transatlantic custody battle.

In fact, there was initially a heated legal dispute. Turner filed a lawsuit against Jonas in federal court in New York, demanding that his daughters be returned to England. Their lawyers also claimed he refused to hand over the children's passports.

While there are elements to the breakdown of the marriage that Turner couldn't discuss for legal reasons, she said, “There were some days where I didn't know if I used to be going to make it. I’d call my lawyer and say, 'I can't try this.'” I just can't.'”

“And then, finally, after two weeks of being in trouble, (the lawyer) reminded me that it was my children that I was fighting for,” Turner continued. “As soon as someone says to me, 'Do it for your children,' I do it. I wouldn’t do it for myself, but I will find the strength for her.”

Jonas' team quickly responded to Turner's lawsuit, releasing a press release underscoring his desire to co-parent and adding, “This is an unfortunate legal disagreement over a marriage that is sadly coming to an end.”

While Turner was coping with the custody case, she struck up a brand new friendship with Taylor Swift, who briefly dated Jonas when she was 18. The world's biggest pop star gave Turner a spot to remain when she needed to be in New York for the custody case.

“Taylor has been an absolute hero for me this year,” Turner said. “I have never been more grateful to anyone than to her because she took my children and I in and gave us a home and a safe place. She truly has a heart of gold.”

In January, Turner's lawsuit was dismissed and the ex-spouses agreed to a custody agreement.

Since then, Turner said, she and Jonas tried to be cordial while working on take care of their daughters as divorced parents. “I’m confident we can do it,” Turner said. “Joe is a great father to our children and that’s all I could ask for.”