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Events on Monday 30 August 2021 2
2021United States begins its withdrawal from AfghanistanA twenty-year war brought to a closeThe United States began withdrawing its remaining forces from Afghanistan on 1 May 2021, ending the longest war in American history.
2021The last leaded petrolA hundred years, ended in AlgeriaThe United Nations Environment Programme announces that leaded petrol for road vehicles has ceased worldwide, Algeria having exhausted the last stocks. UNEP estimates the phase-out prevents over a million premature deaths a year. Studies of the lead era attribute measurable losses in population-level IQ and a substantial share of the twentieth-century crime wave to Midgley's additive. Small aircraft still burn it.