Notable Historical Events on October 21st
October 21st Historical Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
310 |
St Eusebius ends his reign as Catholic Pope |
335 |
Roman Emperor Constantine the Great rules laws against Jews |
686 |
Conon begins his reign as Catholic Pope |
1096 |
Sultan Kilidj Arslan of Nicea defeats 1st Crusaders |
1187 |
Alberto de Morra elected as Pope Gregorius VIII (12/17/1187) |
1512 |
Martin Luther joins the theological faculty of the University of Wittenberg. |
1520 |
Exploer Ferdinand Magellen and his fleet reach Cape Virgenes and become first Europeans to sail into the Pacific Ocean |
1553 |
Volumes of Talmud are burned |
1555 |
Emperor Charles V makes Erard of Pallandt earl of Culemborg |
1555 |
English parliament refuses to recognize Philip of Spain as king |
1568 |
2nd Altenburger sermon: Philippisten/Gnesiolutheranen |
1591 |
Nijmegen surrenders to Earl Mauritius van Nassau |
1601 |
Memorial service for Daitokuji's Shinju held for Ikkyu Sojun in Kyoto |
1639 |
Sea battle at Dunes, Lt Admiral Maarten Tromp defeats Spanish armada under De Oquendo |
1652 |
King Louis XIV returns to Paris |
1708 |
Dutch & English troops occupy Lille (Rijsel) |
1727 |
Russian & Chinese accord to correct boundaries |
1774 |
First display of the word "Liberty" on a flag, raised by colonists in Taunton, Massachusetts and which was in defiance of British rule in Colonial America. |
1803 |
English scientist John Dalton reads his paper on the absorption of gases to the Manchester Literary and Philosophical Soc - 1st outline of his atomic theory |
1805 |
Battle of Trafalgar, British Admiral Nelson defeats French & Spanish fleet but shot and killed |
1816 |
The Penang Free School is founded in George Town, Penang, Malaysia, by the Rev Hutchings. It is the oldest English-language school in Southeast Asia. |
1824 |
Joseph Aspdin patents Portland cement (Yorkshire, England) |
1854 |
Florence Nightingale and a staff of 38 nurses were sent to the Crimean War. |
1858 |
In Paris, the Can-Can is 1st performed |
1858 |
Jacques Offenbach's opera "Orphée aux Enfers" premieres in Paris |
1861 |
Battle of Balls Bluff, VA (Leesburg, Harrison's Island) |
1864 |
Battle of Westport, MO (Kansas City) |
1868 |
Severe earthquake at 7:53 AM, centered in Hayward, Calif |
1869 |
1st shipment of fresh oysters comes overland from Baltimore |
1871 |
1st US amateur outdoor athletic games (NY) |
1878 |
German republic chancellor Bismarck delegates end of "Socialism" |
1887 |
Detroit clinches best-of-15 touring World Championship with its 8th victory in Game 11 this afternoon in Baltimore, 13-3 |
1895 |
The Republic of Formosa collapses as Japanese forces invade. |
1897 |
Yerkes Observatory of University of Chicago is dedicated |
1899 |
Battle at Elandslaagte Natal: (Boers vs British army) |
1902 |
In the United States, a five month strike by United Mine Workers ends. |
1905 |
England Pilgrim Association beats All NY 11, 7-1 in soccer at Polo Grounds |
1911 |
RS Hichens & M Hudsons "Garden of Allah" premieres in NYC |
1911 |
Manitoba, Saskatchewan & Alberta Unions form Western Canada Rugby Football Union |
1913 |
Transvaal women satyagrahis begin defiance activities, hawking without licenses in Vereeniging; they cross the Natal border and encourage the miners in Newcastle to strike |
1914 |
Battle of Warsaw ends with German defeat |
1915 |
1st transatlantic radiotelephone message, Arlington, Va to Paris |
1915 |
William Jennings Bryan's successor as US Secretary of State, Robert Lansing, sends a note to Britain protesting interference with US shipping |
1917 |
1st Americans to see action on front lines of WW I |
1917 |
Petrograds garrison accepts Revolutionary Military Committee |
1918 |
Margaret Owen sets world typing speed record of 170 wpm for 1 min |
1921 |
Tuschinski Theater opens in Amsterdam |
1923 |
1st planetarium opens at Deutsche Museum in Munich |
1924 |
KLM Fokker's F7 H-NACC departs to Dutch East Indies |
1925 |
Sidney Howards "Lucky Sam McGarver" premieres in NYC |
1935 |
Hank Greenberg selected AL MVP unanimously |
1937 |
Dmitri Shostakovitch's 5th Symphony premieres |
1937 |
Franco-troops occupies Gijon |
1938 |
Japanese troops occupies Canton |
1940 |
RAF drops 1st anti-nazi pamphlets on Netherlands |
1944 |
Canadian troops occupy Breskens |
1944 |
During WW II, US troops capture Aachen, 1st large German city to fall |
1944 |
Walter Piston's "Fugue for a Victory Tune" premieres in NYC |
1945 |
Women in France allowed to vote for 1st time |
1947 |
Dutch Dakota explodes near Coopenhagen, 16 die |
1948 |
Beersheba liberated by Israeli army |
1948 |
Dutch Constellation crashes at Prestwick Scotland (40 murder) |
1948 |
Facsimile high-speed radio transmission demonstrated (Washington DC) |
1948 |
UN reject Russian proposal to destroy atomic weapons |
1950 |
Chinese forces occupy Tibet |
1950 |
Death penalty abolished in Belgium |
1950 |
Patty Berg wins LPGA Hardscrabble Women's Golf Invitation |
1950 |
Tom Powers of Duke scores 6 touchdowns |
1952 |
Dutch government refuses New-Guinea (West-Irian) |
1954 |
Dorothy Parker/Arnaud d'Usseau's "Ladies of the Corridor" premieres |
1954 |
Indonesian troops land in New-Guinea |
1956 |
Betty Dodd wins LPGA Lawton Golf Open |
1957 |
Giants purchase Class-A Phoenix team |
1957 |
Jailhouse Rock starring Elvis Presley opens |
1957 |
Marlene Hagge wins LPGA Lawton Golf Open |
1958 |
1st women in British House of Lords |
1959 |
Contra revolutionaries bomb Havana |
1959 |
Guggenheim Museum, designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, opens (NYC) |
1959 |
Players Association approves 2 All-Star Games in 1960, to be held in KC & NY |
1960 |
1st British nuclear sub HMS Dreadnought launched |
1960 |
JFK & Nixon clashed in 4th & final presidential debate (NYC) |
1961 |
Barbra Striesand opens in "Another Evening with Harry Stones" |
1961 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Sary Shagan USSR |
1962 |
Mickey Wright wins LPGA Carlsbad Cavern Golf Open |
1964 |
Abebe Bikila runs Olympic/World record marathon (2:12:11.2) |
1964 |
Braves ask NL to allow them to leave Milwaukee for Atlanta |
1965 |
KTWU TV channel 11 in Topeka, KS (PBS) begins broadcasting |
1965 |
Nobel prize for chemistry awarded to Robert B Woodward |
1965 |
Vivian Beaumont Theater (NYC) opens |
1965 |
Comet Ikeya-Seki approaches perihelion, passing 450,000 kilometers from the sun. |
1966 |
144 die as a coal waste landslide engulfed a school in Aberfan, South Wales |
1967 |
Egypt sinks Israeli torpedo boat |
1967 |
Thousands opposing Vietnam War try to storm Pentagon |
1969 |
Bloodless coup in Somalia (National Day) |
1969 |
Leonard Gersh' "Butterflies are Free" premieres in NYC |
1969 |
Willy Brandt elected chancellor of West Germany |
1969 |
Maj Gen Mohamed Siad Barre becomes President of Somali |
1970 |
777 Unification church couples wed in Korea |
1970 |
Caledonian Airways takes over British United Airways |
1970 |
Nobel prize of peace awarded to Norman E Borlaugh |
1970 |
Bernadette Devlin is released from prison having served four months of her six month sentence for riotous behaviour |
1971 |
"To Live Another Summer" opens at Helen Hayes NYC for 173 perfs |
1971 |
Nobel prize for literature awarded to Pablo Neruda |
1971 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
1971 |
William H Rehnquist & Lewis F Powell nominated to US Supreme Court by Nixon, following resignations of Justices Hugo Black & John Harlan |
1972 |
"Dude" closes at Broadway Theater NYC after 16 performances |
1972 |
"Man of La Mancha" closes at Beaumont Theater NYC after 140 perfs |
1972 |
"Pacific Paradise" closes at Palace Theater NYC after 5 performances |
1973 |
A's manager Dick Williams quits after A's beat Mets in World Series |
1973 |
Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Waco Tribune Herald Ladies Golf Classic |
1973 |
Fred Dryer of the then Los Angeles Rams becomes the first player in NFL history to score two safeties in the same game. |
1974 |
1st Islander shut-out opponent-Billy Smith 5-0 vs Caps |
1974 |
Sandra Palmer wins LPGA Cubic Corp Golf Classic |
1975 |
"Treemonisha" opens at Uris Theater NYC for 64 performances |
1975 |
Coast Guard Academy 1st allows women to enroll |
1975 |
Elton John given a star in Hollywood |
1975 |
Mexico City's 1st major subway accident takes 26 lives |
1975 |
Red Sox Carlton Fisk's 12th inning HR beats Reds 7-6 in game 6 of WS |
1975 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR |
1975 |
Venera 9, 1st craft to orbit planet Venus launched |
1976 |
55th weaapon accord signed |
1976 |
Cin Reds sweep NY Yankees, in 73rd World Series |
1976 |
NY Knicks retire 1st number, # 19, Willis Reed |
1976 |
NY Yankee Thurman Munson ties World Series mark of 6 straight singles |
1976 |
Nobel prize for literature awarded to American Saul Bellow |
1977 |
US recalls William Bowdler, ambassador to South Africa |
1977 |
The European Patent Institute is founded. |
1978 |
Australian civilian pilot Frederick Valentich vanishes in a Cessna 182 over the Bass Strait south of Melbourne, after reporting contact with an unidentified aircraft. |
1979 |
10th NYC Marathon won by Bill Rodgers in 2:11:42 |
1979 |
9th NYC Women's Marathon won by Grete Waitz in 2:27:33 |
1979 |
Greta Weitz wins woman participation in NYC marathon (02:27:33) |
1979 |
Israeli minister of Foreign affairs Moshe Dayan resigns |
1979 |
Ozzie Newsome begins NFL streak of 150 consecutive game receptions |
1980 |
"Banjo Dancing" opens at Century Theater NYC for 38 performances |
1980 |
1st (& only) time Phillies win World Series (in 98 years) |
1980 |
Mikhail Gorbachev elected member of Politburo |
1980 |
Phillies win their 1st World Championship in their 98-year history |
1983 |
Pope John Paul II names 3 new Dutch bishops |
1984 |
Cleveland Browns' Steve Cox sets club record with a 60-yd field goal |
1984 |
Niki Lauda becomes 3rd time motor racing world champ |
1984 |
Steve Jones runs Chicago Marathon in world record 2:08:05 |
1985 |
Qasim Omar (206) & Javed Miandad (203*) make 397 stand v SL |
1986 |
1st-class cricket debut of Andy Flower, ZCU Presidents XI v Young WI |
1986 |
Hugh Whitemore's "Breaking the Code" premieres in London |
1986 |
IBM re-forms in South Africa |
1986 |
Republic of Marshall Islands signs Compact of Free Association with US |
1986 |
US writer Edward A Tracy kidnap in Beirut |
1987 |
7th Belgium government of Martens forms |
1987 |
Nobel prize for economy awarded to Robert M Solow |
1987 |
Senate debate begins rejecting Robert Bork's Supreme Ct nomination |
1988 |
Boston Celtics beat Yugoslavia 113-85 in Madrid |
1988 |
Philippine former first couple Ferdinand & Imelda Marcos indicted on racketeering charges |
1989 |
"Dangerous Games" closes at Nederlander Theater NYC after 4 perfs |
1989 |
Buck Helm found alive after being buried 4 days, in SF earthquake |
1989 |
Houston becomes 1st major college team to gain 1000 yards in a game |
1989 |
1st black owners (Betram Lee & Peter Bynoe) to own a major sports team, purchasing Denver Nuggets for $65m |
1990 |
Esther Canseco calls Oakland A's manager Tony La Russa a "punk" for not starting husband Jose in the World Series |
1990 |
The first Apple Day, is held in Covent Garden, London. |
1991 |
24 die in a fire in Oakland Calif |
1991 |
Former California Governor Jerry Brown announces his run for the US Presidency |
1991 |
US hostage Jesse Turner released from 5 years in captivity in Beirut |
1992 |
Madonna's book "Sex" goes on sale |
1993 |
"Twilight of the Golds" opens at Booth Theater NYC for 29 performances |
1993 |
Gary Kasparov defeats Nigel Short for chess championship |
1993 |
Military coup by Burundi Pres Ndadaye; 525,000 Hutus flee |
1994 |
Hana bridge is Seoul Korea crashes, 32+ die |
1994 |
North Korea signs pact to end their nuclear projects |
1995 |
Addison Vance, 18, of Hickory NC, crowned 7th Ms Venus Swimwear |
1995 |
Mario Tremblay, selected 22nd NHL coach of Montreal Canadians |
1997 |
Elton John's tribute to Diana, Princess of wales, breaks world record, 318 million dist |
1997 |
Cleve Marquis Grissom hit in his 15th straight World Series game (streak ends at 15, he is 2nd to Hank Baur with 17) |
2001 |
"United We Stand" benefit concert for September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks victims, held at RFK Stadium in Washington, DC. Event organized and headlined by Michael Jackson, also featuring pop stars Aerosmith, Mariah Carey, The Backstreet Boys, and others. |
2003 |
Images of the dwarf planet Eris are taken and subsequently used in its discovery by the team of Michael E. Brown, Chad Trujillo, and David L. Rabinowitz. |
2014 |
Oscar Pistorius is sentenced to five years in prison for killing his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp |
2014 |
San Francisco Giants win game one of the 2014 World Series |
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