October 21

Learn the most interesting events and historical facts that happened throughout history on October 21. From 1900 until now. October 21 is under the sign of Libra. Famous birthdays on this day include Kim Kardashian (1980), Carrie Fisher (1956) and Amber Rose (1983). Several movies were released around October 21 over the years, such as Rebel Without a Cause in 1955 directed by Nicholas Ray and Saturday Night and Sunday Morning in 1960 directed by Karel Reisz.
But much more happened on October 21 over the years: find out below

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Holidays

Republic of China - Overseas Chinese Day
French Republican Calendar - Tonneau (Barrel) Day, thirtieth day in the Month of VendTmiaire
In the comic novel Good Omens by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett, the Earth was born on this day in 4004 BC, within a quarter of an hour of 9 in the morning. This was supposedly because God liked to get things over with early.
R.C. saints - Saint Ursula and her 11 (or 11000) virgins; Saint Hilarion
Trafalgar Day ? celebrated throughout much of the British Empire in the 19th and early 20th Century.
Also see October 21 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
International Day of the Nacho ? celebrated in the United States and Mexico since the early 1990s.
Diwali in India (2006)
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Events

2018 2018 Yilan train derailment: At least 18 people are killed and 187 are injured after a train derails in Yilan County, Taiwan. (BBC)
2017 War in Somalia: 14 October 2017 Mogadishu bombings: The death toll in Somalia's deadliest terror attack rises up to 358, making it the fifth-deadliest terror attack worldwide. (Irish Independent)
2016 Iraqi Civil War (2014–2017): ISIL militants launch attacks on government buildings, police stations, and a power station in the city of Kirkuk, Iraqi Kurdistan, killing dozens of people. (BBC)
2015 War in Afghanistan (2001–present): The Taliban announced it overran Ghoryan in western Herat, the second district to fall in three days. (Long War Journal)
2014 Taliban insurgency: A Kabul roadside bomb kills at least four Afghan National Security Force soldiers with six other soldiers and six civilians injured. (AP)
2013 A female suicide bomber detonates an explosive vest on a bus in the Russian city of Volgograd, killing at least 6 and injuring at least 28 others, 8 of them critically. (BBC) (Reuters)
2012 2012 Beirut bombing: Lebanese security forces fire shots into the air and tear gas at crowds, as protesters attempt to breach government offices of prime minister Mikati in response to a car bomb that killed intelligence chief Wissam al-Hassan. (Jerusalem Post)
2011 Libyan civil war:
2010 A bomb attack on a bus on the southern Philippine island of Mindanao kills at least seven people. (BBC)
2009 The Philadelphia Phillies win the 2009 National League Championship Series 4 games to 1 after defeating the Los Angeles Dodgers 10–4. (''New York Times'')
2008 Global financial crisis of September–October 2008: Iceland's Kaupthing Bank fails to pay interest to its 50-billion-yen (US$493 million) bondholders in Japan. (Reuters)
2007 Tokelauan ex-pats in Samoa go to the polls for the Tokelauan self-determination referendum. (Radio New Zealand)
2006 President Yoweri Museveni of Uganda meets rebels of the Lord's Resistance Army for the first time in an attempt to revive the Juba talks. (BBC)
2005 Lyn Knight auction of Series 1890 $1000 US Treasury "Grand Watermelon" note sells for record US$1,092,500.
2004 A University of Florida scientist, Thomas DeMarse, announces that he has grown a "brain" of rat neurons that can fly an airplane simulator. A "brain" such as this could be used to study how actual brains compute information and, potentially, as a sort of living computer. (Wired) (Discovery) (U. of FL press release)
2003 Images of the dwarf planet Eris are taken and subsequently used in documenting its discovery by the team of Michael E. Brown, Chad Trujillo, and David L. Rabinowitz.
2002 9 of 13 DNS root servers are disabled in a DDoS attack.
2001 What More Can I Give benefit concert held in Washington D.C., featuring performances by Michael Jackson, Aerosmith, Mariah Carey, James Brown, Al Green, Carole King, the Backstreet Boys, 'N Sync, P!nk, and others.
1997 Cleveland Marquis Grissom hit in his 15th straight World Series game (streak ends at 15, he is 2nd to Hank Baur with 17)
1995 Addison Vance, 18, of Hickory NC, crowned 7th Ms Venus Swimwear
1994 Hana bridge is Seoul Korea crashes, 32+ die
1993 Twilight of the Golds opens at Booth Theater NYC for 29 performances
1992 Tens of thousands of coal miners march in London to protest government plans to close coal mines and reduce the number of coal miners.
1991 24 die in a fire in Oakland, California
1990 Esther Canseco calls Oakland Athletics manager Tony La Russa a punk for not starting husband Jose in the World Series
1989 Dangerous Games closes at Nederlander Theater NYC after 4 performances
1988 Boston Celtics beat Yugoslavia 113-85 in Madrid, Spain.
1987 7th Belgium government of Martens forms
1986 IBM re-forms in South Africa
1984 Niki Lauda becomes 3rd time motor racing world champ
1983 Pope John Paul II names 3 new Dutch bishops
1980 Banjo Dancing opens at Century Theater NYC for 38 performances
1979 10th NYC Marathon won by Bill Rodgers in 2:11:42
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.
1977 US recalls William Bowdler, ambassador to South Africa.
1976 55th weaapon accord signed
1975 Treemonisha opens at Uris Theater NYC for 64 performances
1974 1st Islander shut-out opponent-Billy Smith 5-0 vs. Caps
1973 Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Waco Tribune Herald Ladies Golf Classic
1972 Dude closes at Broadway Theater NYC after 16 performances
1971 To Live Another Summer opens at Helen Hayes NYC for 173 performances
1970 Nobel prize of peace awarded to Norman E Borlaugh
1969 Bloodless coup in Somalia (National Day)
1967 Egypt sinks Israeli torpedo boat
1966 144 die as a coal waste landslide engulfed a school in Aberfan S Wales
1965 KTWU TV channel 11 in Topeka, KS (PBS) begins broadcasting
1964 Abebe Bikila runs world / olympic record marathon (2:12:11.2)
1962 Mickey Wright wins LPGA Carlsbad Cavern Golf Open
1961 Barbra Striesand opens in Another Evening with Harry Stones
1960 1st British nuclear sub Dreadnought launched
1959 Contra revolutionaries bomb Havana
1958 1st women in English House of Lords
1957 Giants purchase Class-A Phoenix team
1956 Betty Dodd wins LPGA Lawton Golf Open
1954 Indonesian troops land in New-Guinea
1952 Dutch government refuses New-Guinea (West-Irian)
1951 A storm in southern Italy kills over 100.
1950 Death penality abolished in Belgium
1948 Beersheba liberated by Israeli army
1947 Dutch Dakota explodes near Coopenhagen, 16 die
1945 Argentine military officer and politician Juan Peron marries actress Eva Peron.
1944 Canadian troops occupy Breskens
1943 Lucie Aubrac and others in her French Resistance cell liberate Raymond Aubrac from Gestapo imprisonment.
1941 WWII: The Germans rampage in Yugoslavia, killing thousands of civilians.
1940 RAF drops 1st anti-Nazi pamphlets on Netherlands
1938 Japanese troops capture Canton, main southern China port.
1937 Franco-troops occupies Gijon
1935 Hank Greenberg is unanimously selected as American League Most Valuable Player.
1931 The Sakurakai, a secret society in the Imperial Japanese Army, launches an abortive coup d'etat attempt.
1925 Sidney Howards Lucky Sam McGarver, premieres in New York City
1923 1st planetarium opens at Deutsche Museum in Munich
1921 Tuschinski Theater opens in Amsterdam
1918 Margaret Owen sets world typing speed record of 170 wpm for one min.
1917 Petrograds garrison accepts Revolutionary Military Committee
1916 US Army forms Reserve Officers Training Corps
1914 Battle of Warsaw ends with German defeat
1912 During the First Balkan War, Kardzhali is liberated by Bulgarian forces
1911 Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta Unions form Western Canada Rugby Football Union
1905 England Pilgrim Association beats All New York 11, 7-1 in soccer at Polo Grounds.
1904 Russo-Japanese War ampndash Dogger Bank incident: The Russian Baltic Fleet fires on British trawlers it mistakes for Japanese torpedo boats in the North Sea.
1902 In the United States, a five month strike by United Mine Workers ends.
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