August 21
From Hoopedia
- 1936 - The only man ever to score in triple-digits in an NBA game, Wilt Chamberlain, is born in Philadelphia.
- 1969 - The American Basketball Association Oakland Oaks move to Washington, DC and become the Washington Capitals, better known as the "Caps."
- 1991 - The International Maxibasketball Federation, FIMBA, is founded.
- 1996 - To publicize his best-selling biography "Bad As I Wanna Be", Dennis Rodman (right) arrives at the Barnes & Noble bookstore on 5th Avenue in New York City in a police-escorted, horse-drawn carriage, dressed in a lacy, white wedding dress with long white gloves.
