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| Birthday October 21, 1772 Samuel Taylor Coleridge, in England, poet |
| Birthday October 21, 1772 Samuel Taylor Coleridge is born |
| Birthday October 21, 1833 Alfred Bernhard Nobel, Stockholm, created dynamite & Peace Prizes |
| Birthday October 21, 1912 Sir Georg Solti, conductor |
| Birthday October 21, 1914 Martin Gardner, Scientific American math & puzzles columnist |
| Birthday October 21, 1917 Dizzy Gillespie is born |
| Birthday October 21, 1917 Dizzy Gillespie, trumpeter, a creator of modern jazz |
| Birthday October 21, 1928 Whitey Ford, NY Yankee pitcher |
| Birthday October 21, 1933 Georgia Brown |
| Birthday October 21, 1940 Manfred Mann, rocker |
| Birthday October 21, 1945 Kathy Young |
| Birthday October 21, 1953 Charlotte Caffey, (GoGos) |
| Birthday October 21, 1956 Carrie Fisher, in Beverly Hills - Star Wars' Princess Lelia |
| Birthday October 21, 1971 Jade Jagger, daughter of Mick Jagger |
| History October 21, 1779 Henry Laurens named minister to Holland |
| History October 21, 1797 USS Constitution launched |
| History October 21, 1797 US Navy frigate Constitution Old Ironsides launched in Boston |
| History October 21, 1805 Battle of Trafalgar Adm Nelson defeats French & Spanish fleet |
| History October 21, 1805 Battle of Trafalgar |
| History October 21, 1861 Battle of Ball's Bluff |
| History October 21, 1867 Plains Indians sign key provisions of the Medicine Lodge Treaty in Kansas |
| History October 21, 1868 Severe earthquake at 7:53 a.m. centered in Hayward Calif. |
| History October 21, 1869 1st shipment of fresh oysters comes overland from Baltimore |
| History October 21, 1879 Thomas Edison perfects the light bulb. |
| History October 21, 1897 Yerkes Observatory of the University of Chicago is dedicated. |
| History October 21, 1910 A bomb explodes in the Los Angeles Times building |
| History October 21, 1918 Margaret Owen sets world typing speed record of 170 wpm for 1 min. |
| History October 21, 1918 Germany ceases unrestricted submarine warfare |
| History October 21, 1921 Harding publicly condemns lynching |
| History October 21, 1923 Deutsches Museum Munich 1st Walther Bauersfeld's Zeiss Planetarium. |
| History October 21, 1929 Henry Ford dedicates the Thomas Edison Institute |
| History October 21, 1941 Germans massacre men, women, and children in Yugoslavia |
| History October 21, 1944 During WWII US troops captured Aachen 1st large German city to fall |
| History October 21, 1945 Women in France allowed to vote for the 1st time |
| History October 21, 1948 Facsimile high-speed radio transmission demonstrated Washington DC |
| History October 21, 1959 Von Braun moves to NASA |
| History October 21, 1959 Guggenheim Museum designed by Frank Lloyd Wright opens in NY |
| History October 21, 1960 JFK & Nixon clashed in 4th & final pres debate |
| History October 21, 1966 Mudslide buries school in Wales |
| History October 21, 1967 Thousands protest the war in Vietnam |
| History October 21, 1967 Thousands opposing Vietnam War tried to storm the Pentagon |
| History October 21, 1967 100,000 people march on the Pentagon |
| History October 21, 1967 Ejnar Hertzsprung Danish astrophysicist dies at 94. |
| History October 21, 1971 Nixon nominates Lewis F. Powell & William H. Rehnquist to US Supreme Court following resignations of Justices Hugo Black & John Harlan |
| History October 21, 1974 1st Islander shut-out opponent - Billy Smith 5-0 vs Caps |
| History October 21, 1975 Fisk homers off foul pole |
| History October 21, 1975 Venera 9 1st craft to orbit the planet Venus launched |
| History October 21, 1976 Saul Bellow wins Nobel Prize for Literature |
| History October 21, 1977 US recalls William Bowdler ambassador to South Africa |
| History October 21, 1984 Steve Jones runs Chicago Marathon in world record 2 h 8 m 5 s. |
| History October 21, 1988 Mystic Pizza, with Julia Roberts, opens |
| History October 21, 2014 Olympian Oscar Pistorius gets 5 years in prison for girlfriend's death |