Major Events
- 1948 UN rejects Russian proposal to destroy atomic weapons
- 1950 Chinese Communist forces occupy Tibet
- 1966 116 children and 28 adults die as a coal waste heap slides and engulfs a school in Aberfan, South Wales
- 1993 In a failed military coup in Burundi led by ex-President Jean-Baptiste Bagaza, 525,000 Hutus flee and President Melchior Ndadaye is assassinated
Oct 21 in Film & TV
Oct 21 in Music
- 1858 Jacques Offenbach’s operetta “Orpheus in the Underworld” (Orphée aux Enfers) premieres in Paris and includes “Infernal Galop” (can-can tune)
Oct 21 in Sport
- 1980 Phillies win their first World Championship in their 98-year history
Did You Know?
Explorer Ferdinand Magellan and his fleet reach Cape Virgenes after transiting the Strait of Magellan between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, becoming the first Europeans to sail into the Pacific
Fun Fact About October 21
Margaret Owen sets a world typing speed record of 170 wpm for one minute
Famous Weddings
- 1917 Irish poet and playwright William Butler Yeats (52) weds Georgie Hyde-Lees (25)
- 1929 American bank robber Willie Sutton (28) weds Louise Leudemann
- 1948 Science fiction pioneering author “Stranger in a Strange Land” Robert A. Heinlein marries 3rd wife Virginia “Ginny” Gerstenfeld
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