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 |
| 1952 | Allen Hoey / Poet / United States of America |
| 1995 | Cameron Burgess / Footballer / Australia |
| 1967 | Paul Ince / Footballer / United Kingdom |
| 1929 | Ursula K. Le Guin / Author / United States of America |
| 1980 | Kim Kardashian / Actress / United States of America |
| 1955 | Dick DeVos / Business Man / United States of America |
| 1948 | Allen Henry Vigneron / Bishop / United States of America |
| 1983 | Zack Greinke / Baseball Player / United States of America |
| 1982 | Hari Kondabolu / Actor / United States of America |
| 1877 | Oswald Avery / Physician / United States of America |
| 1981 | Nemanja Vidić / Footballer / Serbia |
| 1886 | Eugene Burton Ely / Soldier / United States of America |
| 1937 | Said Afandi al-Chirkawi / Scholar / Russia |
| 1908 | Niyazi Berkes / Academic / United Kingdom |
| 1979 | Khalil Greene / Baseball Player / United States of America |
| 1921 | Robert Clothier / Actor / Canada |
| 1757 | Pierre Augereau / General / France |
| 1959 | Kevin Sheedy / Footballer / Ireland |
| 1959 | Andy Picheta / Director / United Kingdom |
| 1984 | Anna Bogdanova / Heptathlete / Russia |
| 1845 | Will Carleton / Poet / United States of America |
| 1971 | Hal Duncan / Poet / Scotland |
| 1971 | Nick Oliveri / Writer / United States of America |
| 1982 | Matt Dallas / Actor / United States of America |
| 1911 | Mary Blair / Illustrator / United States of America |
| 1953 | Peter Mandelson / Politician / United Kingdom |
| 1988 | Ricki Olsen / Footballer / Denmark |
| 1949 | Mike Keenan / Ice Hockey Player / Canada |
| 1930 | Ivan Silayev / Politician / Russia |
| 1912 | Georg Solti / Director / United Kingdom |
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