page_title: August 1961
section_title: August 21, 1961 (Monday)
hierarchical_section_title: August 1961 / August 21, 1961 (Monday)
caption_attribution_description: English: The Duke of Wellington
context_page_description: The following events happened in August 1961:
context_section_description: Francisco Goya's 1812 Portrait of the Duke of Wellington, was stolen from the National Gallery in London, by thieves who had hidden inside the museum before it closed, then waited for the alarm system to be turned off.  Stolen on the fiftieth anniversary of the August 21, 1911 theft of the Mona Lisa from Paris, the portrait had recently been repurchased from American collector Charles Wrightsman for £140,000 ($392,000).  Goya's masterpiece was finally recovered on May 21, 1965, at a luggage locker in the New Street railway station in Birmingham.
  All restrictions on Jomo Kenyatta's movement were lifted, a month after his release from prison and after one week confinement to his home in Gatundu in Kenya.  Besides signing the papers acknowledging the end of his arrest, he also signed a receipt for his  carved walking stick, given back to him nine years after his 1952 arrest.
  Born:
  Igor Chudinov, Prime Minister of Kyrgyzstan 2007–2009; in Frunze
  David Morales, American musician and 1998 Grammy award winner; in Brooklyn
  Died: John Wesley Dobbs, 78, African American civic and political leader
caption: Francisco Goya's Portrait of the Duke of Wellington
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