October 21 in History – What happened on 21 October in Past

✅ Published on October 21st, 2019 in October in History

21 October - Today in History - Important historical events happened on this day in India and World History

According to Gregory calendar, on October 21, the day number in a year is 294 and if it is a leap year then the day number is 295. October 21 has a special significance in India and world history, because many such incidents have occurred on this day which have been recorded forever in the pages of history. Let's know some such important events which will increase your general knowledge. The facts collected will be as follows: People born on this day, demise of famous people, war treaty, freedom of any country, invention of new technologies, change of power, important National and International Day etc.

October 21 in History - Top Historical Events ⚡

Year	Event / Incidence / Incident
1096	The Seljuk forces of Kilij Arslan destroyed the army of thePeople's Crusade as it marched toward Nicaea.
1296	Alauddin Khilji assumed the throne of Delhi.
1520	The islands of Saint Pierre and Miquelon were discovered by Portuguese explorer João ÁlvaresFagundes near Canada, who named them 'Islands of the 11,000 Virgins'.
1600	Tokugawa Ieyasu defeated the leaders of rival Japanese clans atthe Battle of Sekigahara in what is now Sekigahara, Gifu, clearing thepath for him to form the Tokugawa shogunate.
1727	Russian and Chinese agreements were made to correct the borders.
1805	Napoleonic Wars-Lord Nelson signalled 'England expects thatevery man will do his duty' to the rest of his Royal Navy forces before they defeated Pierre-Charles Villeneuve and his combined French–Spanish navy at the Battle of Trafalgar off the coast of Spain's Cape Trafalgar.
1805	A battle called Drafalgar occurred near the Gibraltar water damru central in southwestern Spain. Britain defeated the French and Spanish fleets in this war.
1816	Penang Island Free Penco established Penang Island in modern Malaysia) by Rev. Sparke Hutchings.
1833	Alfred Noble, a Swedish chemist and inventor of dynamite, was born.
1845	The New York Herald became the first newspaper to mention a game of baseball.
1854	Florence Nightingale and a staff of 38 nurses were sent to Turkey to help treat wounded British soldiers fighting in the Crimean War.
1858	French composer Jacques Offenbach's operetta Orpheus in theUnderworld, featuring music most associated with the can-can (audiofeatured), was first performed at the Théâtre des Bouffes Parisiens inParis.
1867	The first of the Medicine Lodge Treaties was signed between theUnited States and several Native American tribes in the Great Plains,requiring them to relocate to areas in present-day western Oklahoma.
1871	New York) was the first non-competitive outdoor athletic game in the US.
1902	A five-month strike by United Money Workers in the US ended.
1910	A bomb explosion at the Los Angeles Times building leads to the death of 21 people and injuring many more.
1910	HMS Niobe arrived in Halifax Harbour to become the first largeship of the Royal Canadian Navy.
1918	Margate Oven set a world record with a typing speed of 170 VPM in 1 minute.
1921	George Melford's wildly successful silent film The Sheik, whichwould propel its leading actor Rudolph Valentino to stardom, premiered.
1931	Famous Hindi film actor Shammi Kapoor was born.
1934	Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose founded Azad Hind Fauj in Singapore.
1939	Famous Hindi films actress Helen was born.
1944	World War II-German forces surrendered to American troops,ending the three-week-long Battle of Aachen.
1945	Women in France are given voting rights as part of the woman's suffrage movement. This will now allow them to vote in the parliamentary elections as part of the woman's suffrage movement.
1945	Women in France got the right to vote for the first time.
1950	Korean War-British and Australian troops of the 27th BritishCommonwealth Brigade engaged in heavy fighting with North Korean forcesin the Battle of Yongju.
1950	The death penalty ended in Belgium.
1952	A lot of the members of the Mau Mau movement who were asking for a self government after the state of emergency, are now in police custody. This includes Jomom Kenyatta.
1959	The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, designed by Americanarchitect Frank Lloyd Wright, opened in New York City.
1973	President Nixon of the United States is asking for a 2.2 billion dollar military aide for Israel.
1978	After reporting contact with an unidentified aircraft,Frederick Valentich disappeared in unexplained circumstances whilepiloting a Cessna 182L light aircraft over the Bass Strait to KingIsland, Australia.
1981	Andreas Papandreou began the first of his two terms as PrimeMinister of Greece, ending an almost 50-year-long system of powerdominated by conservative forces.
1983	At the seventeenth General Conference on Weights and Measures,the length of a metre was redefined as the distance light travels invacuum in 1/299,792,458 of a second.
1986	Scientists have been examining a huge hole that has emerged in the Earth’s ozone layer over Antarctica. They received this information from a satellite connection. As per them, it has been caused a certain chemical process and have their doubts on the gas used in Aerosol cans.
1998	American cancer specialist Dr. Jane Heaney became the first woman commissioner of the FDA).
2005	According to an investigation conducted by the United Nations, it is revealed that members of the Syrian and Lebanese governments were involved in the assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri.
2005	Mukhtaran Mai \ 'Woman of the Year \ was elected Pakistan's victim of gang rape.
2007	The world's biggest banks sanction a plan, to restore the world's financial system. This also has the support of the United States Treasury.
2008	A trade route has been started between the Kashmir belonging to Pakistan and India's Jammu and Kashmir state after a 60-year barricade.
2009	Many demonstrators gather in Lima, Peru, to protest the approval of a bill that proposes the legalization of some form of abortion.
2012	Indian filmmaker-director Yash Chopra died.
2013	The state of New Jersey has allowed same-sex-marriages, becoming the 14th state in the U.S. to do so.
2013	The Parliament of Canada granted Malala Yousafzai citizenship to Canada.

Famous Birthdays of October 21 😀:

Year	Name / Profession / Country
1925	Celia Cruz / Singer / United States of America
1975	Toby Hall / Baseball Player / United States of America
1912	Don Byas / Educator / United States of America
1918	Milton Himmelfarb / Author / United States of America
1912	Georg Solti / Director / United Kingdom
1975	Henrique Hilário / Footballer / Portugal
1790	Alphonse de Lamartine / Politician / France
1929	Ursula K. Le Guin / Author / United States of America
1926	Leonard Rossiter / Actor / United Kingdom
1687	Nicolaus I Bernoulli / Mathematician / Switzerland
1895	Paavo Johansson / Javelin Thrower / Finland
1972	Orlando Thomas / Footballer / United States of America
1983	Shelden Williams / Basketball Player / United States of America
1976	Josh Ritter / Writer / United States of America
1833	Alfred Nobel / Chemist / Sweden
1949	Michel Brière / Ice Hockey Player / Canada
1943	Ron Elliott / Writer / United States of America
1940	Rhoda Gemignani / Actress / United States of America
1942	John Stevens / Academic / United Kingdom
1952	Allen Hoey / Poet / United States of America
1990	Ricky Rubio / Basketball Player / Spain
1959	Ken Watanabe / Actor / Japan
1938	Carl Brewer / Ice Hockey Player / Canada
1978	Henrik Klingenberg / Singer / Finland
1937	Farooq Abdullah / Politician / India
1976	Henrik Gustavsson / Footballer / Sweden
1927	Fritz Wintersteller / Mountaineer / Austria
1908	Niyazi Berkes / Academic / United Kingdom
1979	Gabe Gross / Baseball Player / United States of America
1988	Daniel Schorn / Cyclist / Austria

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