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Events on the 21st of October in history

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21 Oct 0310 St Eusebius ends his reign as Catholic Pope
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21 Oct 0335 Constantinople Emperor Constantine the Great rules laws against Jews
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21 Oct 0686 Conon begins his reign as Catholic Pope
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21 Oct 1096 Sultan Kilidj Arslan of Nicea defeats 1st Crusaders
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21 Oct 1096 People's Crusade: The Turkish army successfully fight off the People's Army of the West.
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21 Oct 1097 First Crusade: Crusaders led by Godfrey of Bouillon, Bohemund of Taranto, and Raymond IV of Toulouse, begin the Siege of Antioch.
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21 Oct 1187 Alberto de Morra elected as Pope Gregorius VIII (12 / 17 / 1187)
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21 Oct 1209 Otto IV is crowned emperor of the Holy Roman Empire by Pope Innocent III.
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21 Oct 1392 Nanboku-chō: Emperor Go-Kameyama abdicates in favor of rival claimant Go-Komatsu.
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21 Oct 1492 Columbus lands on San Salvador Island
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21 Oct 1512 Martin Luther joins the theological faculty of the University of Wittenberg.
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21 Oct 1520 Ferdinand Magellen arrives at Tierra Del Fuego (Pacific Ocean)
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21 Oct 1520 Ferdinand Magellan discovers a strait now known as Strait of Magellan.
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21 Oct 1520 João Álvares Fagundes discovers the islands of Saint Pierre and Miquelon, bestowing them their original name of "Islands of the 11,000 Virgins".
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21 Oct 1520 Magellan entered the strait which bears his name
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21 Oct 1553 Volumes of the Talmud are burned
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21 Oct 1555 Emperor Charles V makes Erard of Pallandt Earl of Culemborg
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21 Oct 1555 English parliament refuses to recognize Philip of Spain as King
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21 Oct 1568 2nd Altenburger sermon: Philippisten / Gnesiolutheranen
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21 Oct 1591 Nijmegen surrenders to Earl Mauritius van Nassau
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21 Oct 1600 Tokugawa Ieyasu defeats the leaders of rival Japanese clans in the Battle of Sekigahara, which marks the beginning of the Tokugawa shogunate that in effect rules Japan until the mid-nineteenth century.
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21 Oct 1639 Dunes (Marten Tromp defeats Spanish armada under De Oquendo)
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21 Oct 1639 Sea battle at Dunes: Lieutenant Admiral Maarten Tromp beats Spanish Armada
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21 Oct 1641 Catholic uprising in Ulster: 1000s English and Scots killed
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21 Oct 1652 King Louis XIV returns to Paris
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21 Oct 1708 Dutch and English troops occupy Lille (Rijsel)
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21 Oct 1727 Russian and Chinese accord to correct boundaries
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21 Oct 1774 First display of the word "Liberty" on a flag, raised by colonists in Taunton, Massachusetts in defiance of British rule in Colonial America.
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21 Oct 1797 In Boston Harbor, the 44-gun United States Navy frigate USS Constitution is launched.
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21 Oct 1797 US Navy frigate Constitution, Old Ironsides, launched in Boston
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21 Oct 1805 Battle of Trafalgar, Admiral Nelson defeats French and Spanish fleet and dies
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21 Oct 1805 Napoleonic Wars: Battle of Trafalgar: A British fleet led by Vice Admiral Lord Nelson defeats a combined French and Spanish fleet off the coast of Spain under Admiral Villeneuve, signaling almost the end of French maritime power and leaves Britain's navy unchallenged until the 20th century.
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21 Oct 1816 The Penang Free School is founded in George Town, Penang, Malaysia, by the Rev Hutchings, the oldest English-language school in Southeast Asia.
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21 Oct 1824 Joseph Aspdin patents Portland cement (Yorkshire England)
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21 Oct 1824 Joseph Aspdin patents Portland cement.
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21 Oct 1854 Florence Nightingale and a staff of 38 nurses are sent to the Crimean War.
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21 Oct 1858 In Paris, the Can-Can is 1st performed
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21 Oct 1861 American Civil War: Battle of Ball's Bluff – Union forces under Colonel Edward Baker are defeated by Confederate troops in the second major battle of the war. Baker, a close friend of Abraham Lincoln, is killed in the fighting.
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21 Oct 1861 Battle of Balls Bluff, Va
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21 Oct 1867 Manifest Destiny: Medicine Lodge Treaty – Near Medicine Lodge, Kansas a landmark treaty is signed by southern Great Plains Indian leaders. The treaty requires Native American Plains tribes to relocate to a reservation in western Oklahoma.
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21 Oct 1868 Severe earthquake at 7:53 AM, centered in Hayward, California
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21 Oct 1869 1st shipment of fresh oysters comes overland from Baltimore
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21 Oct 1871 1st US amateur outdoor athletic games (NY)
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21 Oct 1878 German Republic chancellor Bismarck delegates end of "Socialism"
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21 Oct 1879 Thomas Edison invents a workable electric light bulb at his laboratory in Menlo Park, N.J. which was tested the next day and lasted 13.5 hours. This would be the invention of the first commercially practical incandescent light. Popular belief is that he invented the first light bulb, which he did not.
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21 Oct 1879 Thomas Edison perfects the carbonized cotton filament light bulb
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21 Oct 1887 Detroit clinches best-of-15 touring World Championship with its 8th victory in Game 11 this afternoon in Baltimore, 13-3
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21 Oct 1888 Foundation of the Swiss Social Democratic Party.
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21 Oct 1892 Opening ceremonies for the World's Columbian Exposition are held in Chicago, though because construction was behind schedule, the exposition did not open until May 1, 1893.
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21 Oct 1895 The Republic of Formosa collapses as Japanese forces invade.
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21 Oct 1897 Yerkes Observatory of the University of Chicago is dedicated
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21 Oct 1899 Battle at Elandslaagte Natal: (Boers vs. British army)
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21 Oct 1902 In the United States, a five-month strike by United Mine Workers ends.
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21 Oct 1905 England Pilgrim Association beats All New York 11, 7-1 in soccer at Polo Grounds
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21 Oct 1910 HMS Niobe arrives in Halifax Harbour to become the first ship of the Royal Canadian Navy.
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21 Oct 1911 Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta Unions form Western Canada Rugby Football Union
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21 Oct 1911 RS Hichens and M Hudsons "Garden of Allah, " premieres in New York City
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21 Oct 1912 First Balkan War: Kardzhali is liberated by Bulgarian forces.
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21 Oct 1914 Battle of Warsaw ends with German defeat
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21 Oct 1915 1st transatlantic radiotelephone message, Arlington, Va to Paris
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21 Oct 1916 US Army forms Reserve Officers Training Corps
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21 Oct 1917 Petrograds garrison accepts Revolutionary Military Committee
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21 Oct 1917 1st Americans to see action on the front lines of WW I
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21 Oct 1918 Margaret Owen sets world typing speed record of 170 wpm for 1 min
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21 Oct 1921 Tuschinski Theater opens in Amsterdam
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21 Oct 1921 President Warren G. Harding delivers the first speech by a sitting U.S. President against lynching in the deep South.
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21 Oct 1921 George Melford's silent film, The Sheik, starring Rudolph Valentino, premiers.
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21 Oct 1923 1st planetarium opens at Deutsche Museum in Munich
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21 Oct 1923 Deutsches Museum, M
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21 Oct 1925 Sidney Howards "Lucky Sam McGarver, " premieres in New York City
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21 Oct 1931 The Sakurakai, a secret society in the Imperial Japanese Army, launches an abortive coup d'état attempt.
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21 Oct 1935 Hank Greenberg selected AL MVP unanimously
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21 Oct 1937 Franco-troops occupies Gijon
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21 Oct 1938 Japanese troops occupies Canton
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21 Oct 1940 RAF drops 1st anti-Nazi pamphlets on Netherlands
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21 Oct 1940 The first edition of the Ernest Hemingway novel For Whom the Bell Tolls is published.
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21 Oct 1941 World War II: In Kragujevac, Serbia, German Wehrmacht soldiers butcher about 7,000 citizens, including schoolchildren and professors.
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21 Oct 1943 The Provisional Government of Free India is formally declared by Subhas Chandra Bose.
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21 Oct 1944 Canadian troops occupy Breskens
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21 Oct 1944 World War II: The first kamikaze attack — A Japanese fighter plane carrying a 200-kilogram (440 lb) bomb attacks HMAS Australia off Leyte Island, as the Battle of Leyte Gulf began.
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21 Oct 1944 World War II: Nemmersdorf massacre against the German civilians takes place.
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21 Oct 1944 World War II: Battle of Aachen — The city of Aachen falls to American forces after three weeks of fighting, making it the first German city to fall to the Allies.
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21 Oct 1944 During WWII, US troops capture Aachen, 1st large German city to fall
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21 Oct 1945 Women's suffrage: Women are allowed to vote in France for the first time.
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21 Oct 1945 Women in France allowed to vote for 1st time
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21 Oct 1947 Dutch Dakota explodes near Coopenhagen, 16 die
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21 Oct 1948 Beersheba liberated by Israeli army
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21 Oct 1948 Dutch Constellation crashes at Prestwick Scotland (40 murder)
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21 Oct 1948 UN reject Russian proposal to destroy atomic weapons
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21 Oct 1948 Facsimile high-speed radio transmission demonstrated (Washington DC)
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21 Oct 1950 Death penality abolished in Belgium
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21 Oct 1950 Korean War: Heavy fighting begins between British and Australian forces from the 27th British Commonwealth Brigade and the North Korean 239th Regiment during the Battle of Yongju.
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21 Oct 1950 Chinese forces occupy Tibet
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21 Oct 1950 Tom Powers of Duke scores 6 touchdowns
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21 Oct 1952 Dutch government refuses New-Guinea (West-Irian)
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21 Oct 1954 Indonesian troops land in New-Guinea
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21 Oct 1956 Betty Dodd wins LPGA Lawton Golf Open
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21 Oct 1956 Mau Mau Uprising: Kenyan rebel leader Dedan Kimathi is captured by the British Army, signalling the ultimate defeat of the rebellion, and essentially ending the British military campaign.
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21 Oct 1957 Giants purchase Class-A Phoenix team
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21 Oct 1957 Jailhouse Rock starring Elvis Presley opens
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21 Oct 1957 Marlene Hagge wins LPGA Lawton Golf Open
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21 Oct 1958 1st women in English House of Lords
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21 Oct 1959 Contra revolutionaries bomb Havana
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21 Oct 1959 Players Association approves 2 All-Star Games in 1960, to be held in Kansas City and New York
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21 Oct 1959 In New York City, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, opens to the public.
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21 Oct 1959 U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower signs an executive order transferring Wernher von Braun and other German scientists from the United States Army to NASA.
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21 Oct 1959 Guggenheim Museum, designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, opens (NYC)
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21 Oct 1960 1st British nuclear sub Dreadnought launched
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21 Oct 1960 JFK and Nixon clashed in 4th and final presidential debate (NYC)
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21 Oct 1961 Barbra Striesand opens in "Another Evening with Harry Stones"
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21 Oct 1962 Mickey Wright wins LPGA Carlsbad Cavern Golf Open
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21 Oct 1964 Abebe Bikila runs world / olympic record marathon (2:12:11.2)
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21 Oct 1964 Braves ask NL to allow them to leave Milwaukee for Atlanta
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21 Oct 1965 KTWU TV channel 11 in Topeka, KS (PBS) begins broadcasting
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21 Oct 1965 Nobel prize for chemistry awarded to Robert B Woodward
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21 Oct 1965 Robert B Woodward awarded Nobel prize for chemistry
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21 Oct 1965 Vivian Beaumont Theater (NYC) opens
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21 Oct 1965 Comet Ikeya-Seki approaches perihelion, passing 450,000 kilometers (279,617 miles) from the sun.
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21 Oct 1966 144 die as a coal waste landslide engulfed a school in Aberfan S Wales
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21 Oct 1966 Aberfan disaster: A slag heap collapses on the village of Aberfan in Wales, killing 144 people, mostly schoolchildren.
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21 Oct 1967 Egypt sinks Israeli torpedo boat
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21 Oct 1967 Vietnam War: More than 100,000 war protesters gather in Washington, D.C.. A peaceful rally at the Lincoln Memorial is followed by a march to The Pentagon and clashes with soldiers and United States Marshals protecting the facility. Similar demonstrations occurred simultaneously in Japan and Western Europe.
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21 Oct 1967 Thousands opposing Vietnam War try to storm the Pentagon
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21 Oct 1969 Maj General Mohamed Siad Barre becomes President of Somali
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21 Oct 1969 Willy Burns elected chancellor of West Germany
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21 Oct 1969 A coup d'état in Somalia brings Siad Barre to power and establishes a socialist republic in Somalia.
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21 Oct 1969 Bloodless coup in Somalia (National Day)
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21 Oct 1970 Nobel prize of peace awarded to Norman E Borlaugh
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21 Oct 1970 777 Unification church couples wed in Korea
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21 Oct 1970 Caledonian Airways takes over British United Airways
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21 Oct 1971 "To Live Another Summer" opens at Helen Hayes NYC for 173 performances
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21 Oct 1971 Nobel prize for literature awarded to Pablo Neruda
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21 Oct 1971 William H Rehnquist and Lewis F Powell nominated to US Supreme Court by Nixon, following resignations of Justices Hugo Black and John Harlan
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21 Oct 1971 A gas explosion kills 22 people at a shopping center in Clarkston, East Renfrewshire, near Glasgow, Scotland.
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21 Oct 1971 Nixon nominates Lewis F Powell & William H Rehnquist to US Supreme Court, following resignations of Justices Hugo Black & John Harlan
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21 Oct 1972 "Dude" closes at Broadway Theater NYC after 16 performances
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21 Oct 1972 "Man of La Mancha" closes at Beaumont Theater NYC after 140 performances
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21 Oct 1972 "Pacific Paradise" closes at Palace Theater NYC after 5 performances
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21 Oct 1973 Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Waco Tribune Herald Ladies Golf Classic
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21 Oct 1973 John Paul Getty III's ear is cut off by his kidnappers and sent to a newspaper in Rome; it doesn't arrive until November 8.
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21 Oct 1973 Fred Dryer of the then Los Angeles Rams becomes the first player in NFL history to score two safeties in the same game.
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21 Oct 1973 A's manager Dick Williams quits after A's beat Mets in 70th World Series
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21 Oct 1974 Sandra Palmer wins LPGA Cubic Corp Golf Classic
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21 Oct 1974 1st Islander shut-out opponent-Billy Smith 5-0 vs Caps
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21 Oct 1975 "Treemonisha" opens at Uris Theater NYC for 64 performances
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21 Oct 1975 Coast Guard Academy 1st allows women to enroll
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21 Oct 1975 Elton John given a star in Hollywood
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21 Oct 1975 Mexico City's 1st major subway accident takes 26 lives
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21 Oct 1975 Red Sox Carlton Fisk's 12th inning HR beats Reds 7-6 in game 6 of WS
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21 Oct 1975 Venera 9, first craft to orbit the planet Venus launched
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21 Oct 1976 55th weaapon accord signed
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21 Oct 1976 Cin Reds sweep New York Yankees, in 73rd World Series
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21 Oct 1976 Nobel prize for literature awarded to Saul Bellow
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21 Oct 1976 New York Knicks retire 1st number, # 19, Willis Reed
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21 Oct 1976 New York Yankee Thurman Munson ties World Series mark of 6 straight singles
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21 Oct 1976 American Saul Bellow wins Nobel Prize for Literature
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21 Oct 1977 The European Patent Institute is founded.
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21 Oct 1977 US recalls William Bowdler, ambassador to South Africa
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21 Oct 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.
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21 Oct 1979 10th NYC Marathon won by Bill Rodgers in 2:11:42
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21 Oct 1979 Israeli Minister of Foreign Affairs Moshe Dayan resigns
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21 Oct 1979 Ozzie Newsome begins NFL streak of 150 consecutive game receptions
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21 Oct 1979 Moshe Dayan resigns from the Israeli government because of strong disagreements with Prime Minister Menachem Begin over policy towards the Arabs.
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21 Oct 1979 Greta Waitz wins woman participation in NYC marathon (02:27:33)
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21 Oct 1980 "Banjo Dancing" opens at Century Theater NYC for 38 performances
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21 Oct 1980 1st and only time Phillies win World Series (in 98 years)
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21 Oct 1980 Michael Gorbatsjov elected member of Politburo
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21 Oct 1980 Phillies win their 1st World Championship in their 98-year history
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21 Oct 1980 1st (& only) time Phillies win the World Series (in 98 years) (World Series #77)
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21 Oct 1981 Andreas Papandreou becomes Prime Minister of Greece, ending an almost 50-year-long system of power dominated by conservative forces.
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21 Oct 1983 Pope John Paul II names 3 new Dutch bishops
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21 Oct 1983 The metre is defined at the seventeenth General Conference on Weights and Measures as the distance light travels in a vacuum in 1/299,792,458 of a second.
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21 Oct 1984 Niki Lauda becomes 3rd time motor racing world champ
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21 Oct 1984 Steve Jones runs Chicago Marathon in world record 2:08:05
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21 Oct 1986 IBM re-forms in South Africa
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21 Oct 1986 Republic of Marshall Islands signs Compact of Free Association with US
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21 Oct 1986 US writer Edward A Tracy kidnap in Beirut
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21 Oct 1986 In Lebanon, pro-Iran kidnappers claim to have abducted American writer Edward Tracy (he is released in August 1991).
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21 Oct 1987 7th Belgium government of Martens forms
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21 Oct 1987 Nobel prize for economy awarded to Robert M Solow
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21 Oct 1987 Jaffna hospital massacre is carried out by Indian Peace Keeping Force in Sri Lanka killing 70 ethnic Tamil patients, doctors and nurses.
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21 Oct 1987 Senate debate begins rejecting Robert Bork's Supreme Ct nomination
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21 Oct 1988 Boston Celtics beat Yugoslavia 113-85 in Madrid
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21 Oct 1988 Ferdinand & Imelda Marcos indicted on racketeering charges
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21 Oct 1989 "Dangerous Games" closes at Nederlander Theater NYC after 4 performances
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21 Oct 1989 1st black owners (Betram Lee & Peter Bynoe) to own a major sports team, purchasing Denver Nuggets for $65m
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21 Oct 1989 Buck Helm found alive after being buried 4 days, in SF earthquake
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21 Oct 1989 Houston becomes 1st major college team to gain 1000 yards in a game
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21 Oct 1990 Esther Canseco calls Oakland Athletics manager Tony La Russa a "punk" for not starting husband Jose in the World Series
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21 Oct 1991 24 die in a fire in Oakland, California
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21 Oct 1991 Former California gov Jerry Brown announce run for presidency
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21 Oct 1991 US hostage Jesse Turner released from 5 years in captivity in Beirut
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21 Oct 1993 "Twilight of the Golds" opens at Booth Theater NYC for 29 performances
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21 Oct 1993 Gary Kasparov defeats Nigel Short for chess championship
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21 Oct 1994 Hana bridge is Seoul Korea crashes, 32+ die
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21 Oct 1994 North Korea signs pact to end their nuclear projects
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21 Oct 1994 North Korea nuclear weapons program: North Korea and the United States sign an agreement that requires North Korea to stop its nuclear weapons program and agree to inspections.
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21 Oct 1994 In Seoul, 32 people are killed when the Seongsu Bridge collapses.
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21 Oct 1995 Addison Vance, 18, of Hickory NC, crowned 7th Ms Venus Swimwear
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21 Oct 1995 Mario Tremblay, selected 22nd NHL coach of Montreal Canadiens
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21 Oct 1997 Cleveland Marquis Grissom hit in his 15th straight World Series game (streak ends at 15, he is 2nd to Hank Baur with 17)
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21 Oct 2005 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.
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21 Oct 2012 A shooting at a spa in Brookfield, Wisconsin, leaves four people dead, including the shooter.
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21 Oct 2013 Record smog closes schools, roadways, and the airport in Harbin, China.
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21 Oct 2137 -BC- 1st recorded total eclipse of the sun China
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