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On this day - October 21
310 — Sixty-five days after being exiled by the Emperor Maxentius to ...
1096 — A Seljuk Turkish army successfully fights off the ...
1097 — First Crusade: Crusaders led by Godfrey of Bouillon, Bohemund ...
1392 — Japanese Emperor Go-Kameyama abdicates in favor of rival ...
1512 — Martin Luther joins the theological faculty of the University ...
1520 — João Álvares Fagundes discovers the islands of Saint Pierre ...
1600 — Tokugawa Ieyasu defeats the leaders of rival Japanese clans in ...
1774 — The flag of Taunton, Massachusetts is the first to include the ...
1797 — In Boston Harbor, the 44-gun United States Navy frigate USS ...
1805 — Napoleonic Wars: A British fleet led by Lord Nelson defeats a ...
1824 — Portland cement is patented.
1854 — Florence Nightingale and a staff of 38 nurses are sent to the ...
1861 — American Civil War: Union forces under Colonel Edward Baker ...
1867 — The Medicine Lodge Treaty is signed by southern Great Plains ...
1879 — Thomas Edison applies for a patent for his design for an ...
1888 — The Swiss Social Democratic Party is founded.
1892 — Opening ceremonies for the World's Columbian Exposition ...
1895 — The capitulation of Tainan completes the Japanese conquest of ...
1907 — The 1907 Qaratog earthquake hits the borders of Uzbekistan and ...
1910 — HMS Niobe arrives in Halifax Harbour to become the first ship ...
1912 — First Balkan War: The Greek navy completes the capture of the ...
1921 — President Warren G. Harding delivers the first speech by a ...
1931 — A secret society in the Imperial Japanese Army launches an ...
1940 — The first edition of the Ernest Hemingway novel For Whom the ...
1941 — World War II: The Kragujevac massacre against Serbian men and ...
1943 — World War II: The Provisional Government of Free India is ...
1944 — World War II: The city of Aachen falls to American forces ...
1944 — World War II: The Nemmersdorf massacre against German ...
1944 — World War II: The first kamikaze attack damages HMAS Australia ...
1945 — In the 1945 French legislative election French women vote for ...
1950 — Korean War: Heavy fighting begins between British and ...
1956 — The Mau Mau Uprising in Kenya is defeated.
1959 — President Dwight D. Eisenhower approves the transfer of all US ...
1959 — In New York City, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum opens to ...
1965 — Comet Ikeya–Seki approaches perihelion, passing 450,000 ...
1966 — A colliery spoil tip slips onto houses and a school in the ...
1967 — The National Mobilization Committee to End the War in Vietnam ...
1969 — The 1969 Somali coup d'état establishes a ...
1971 — A gas explosion kills 22 people at a shopping centre near ...
1973 — Fred Dryer of the Los Angeles Rams becomes the first player in ...
1978 — Australian civilian pilot Frederick Valentich vanishes over ...
1979 — Moshe Dayan resigns from the Israeli government because of ...
1981 — Andreas Papandreou becomes Prime Minister of Greece, ending an ...
1983 — The metre is defined as the distance light travels in a vacuum ...
1984 — Niki Lauda claims his third and final Formula One ...
1986 — In Lebanon, pro-Iran kidnappers claim to have abducted ...
1987 — The Jaffna hospital massacre is carried out by Indian ...
1989 — In Honduras, 131 people are killed when a Boeing 727 crashes ...
1994 — In Seoul, South Korea, 32 people are killed when a span of the ...
1994 — North Korea and the United States sign an Agreed Framework ...
2003 — Images of the dwarf planet Eris are taken and subsequently ...
2011 — Iraq War: President Barack Obama announces that the withdrawal ...
2018 — A passenger train derails in Yilan County, Taiwan, killing 18 ...
2019 — In Canada, the 2019 Canadian federal election ends, resulting ...
2019 — Thirty people are killed in a fiery bus crash in western ...
2021 — A shooting occurs on the set of the film Rust, in which actor ...