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Today in History ~ October 21
Events0335 - Constantinople emperor Constantine the Great Rules --laws against Jews
1096 - Sultan Kilidj Arslan of Nicea defeats 1st Crusaders
1492 - Columbus lands on San Salvador Island
1520 - Ferdinand Magellen arrives at Tierra Del Fuego (Pacific Ocean)
1553 - Volumes of Talmud are burned
1555 - English parliament refuses to recognize Philip of Spain as king
1641 - Catholic uprising in Ulster: 1000s English & Scots killed
1652 - King Louis XIV returns to Paris
1805 - Battle of Trafalgar, English Admiral Horatio Nelson defeats French and Spanish lead by Napoleon. The brave Admiral was hit by an enemy musket ball and died as the enemy surrendered. The crew fittingly preserved his body in rum.
1824 - Joseph Aspdin patents Portland cement (Yorkshire England)
1858 - In Paris, the Can-Can is 1st performed
1858 - Jacques Offenbach's opera "Orphee aux Enfers," premieres in Paris
1861 - Battle of Balls Bluff, VA (Leesburg, Harrison's Island)
1869 - 1st shipment of fresh oysters comes overland from Baltimore
1878 - German republic chancellor Bismarck delegates end of "Socialism"
1879 - After 14 months of experiments, Thomas Edison perfects carbonized cotton filament light bulb.
1908 - The Saturday Evening Post magazine carried an ad for a brand new product: a two-sided phonograph record.
1914 - Battle of Warsaw ends with German defeat
1915 - 1st transatlantic radiotelephone message, Arlington, Virginia to Paris France.
1916 - US Army forms Reserve Officers Training Corps
1917 - Petrograd's garrison accepts Revolutionary Military Committee
1937 - Dmitri Shostakovitch's 5th Symphony premieres
1938 - Japanese troops occupies Canton
1941 - Germans massacre men, women, and children in Yugoslavia [H]
1944 - During WW II, US troops capture Aachen, 1st large German city to fall
1945 - Women in France allowed to vote for 1st time
1948 - Beersheba liberated by Israeli army
1950 - Chinese forces occupy Tibet
1954 - Dorothy Parker's/Arnaud d'Usseau's "Ladies of the Corridor," premieres
1957 - Jailhouse Rock starring Elvis Presley opens [H]
1959 - Contra revolutionaries bomb Havana
1959 - Dr. Wernher Von Braun starts work at NASA which was the key to a successful space program, and by the late 1960s his rockets were taking men to the moon. The Dr at age 25 had masterminded the V-2 rocket for Nazi Germany.
1959 - Guggenheim Museum, designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, opens (NYC).
Frank Lloyd Wright died six months after the completion of the architectural masterpiece. Some said the masterpiece looked like a giant washing machine and others loved the use
of light and movement with the 6 story ramp which spirals upward a quarter mile and additional four levels of galleries. The Guggenheim design today is still controversial.
1960 - 1st British nuclear sub Dreadnought launched
1960 - JFK & Nixon clashed in 4th & final presidential debate (NYC)
1964 - Braves ask NL to allow them to leave Milwaukee for Atlanta
1965 - Robert B Woodward awarded Nobel prize for chemistry
1967 - Egypt sinks Israeli torpedo boat
1967 - 50,000 opposing Vietnam War try to storm Pentagon. The demonstrators staged a sit down, and several US Marshals used their wooden batons against the crowd. No one was reported to be seriously injured; over 500 people are arrested.
1969 - Leonard Gersh's "Butterflies are Free," premieres in NYC
1970 - 777 Unification church couples wed in Korea
1970 - Caledonian Airways takes over British United Airways
1971 - Nobel prize for literature awarded to Pablo Neruda
1971 - William H Rehnquist and Lewis F Powell nominated to US Supreme Court by Nixon, following resignations of Justices Hugo Black and John Harlan
1975 - "Treemonisha" opens at Uris Theater NYC for 64 performances
1975 - Mexico City's 1st major subway accident takes 26 lives
1976 - American Saul Bellow wins Nobel Prize for Literature
1979 - Israeli minister of Foreign affairs Moshe Dayan resigns
1987 - Senate debate begins rejecting Robert Bork's Supreme Court nomination
1988 - Ferdinand & Imelda Marcos indicted on racketeering charges
1989 - Buck Helm found alive after being buried 4 days, in SF earthquake
1990 - Gunmen stormed the home of a key supporter of Lebanese Christian military leader Michel Aoun, killing him, his wife and their two sons.
1991 - Former Calif gov Jerry Brown announce run for presidency
1991 - US hostage Jesse Turner released from 5 years in captivity in Beirut
1992 - New York protesters upset with Sinead O'Connor for ripping up a photo of Pope John Paul II on "Saturday Night Live" used a steamroller to crush dozens of the Irish singer's CDs, records and tapes.
1993 - Gary Kasparov defeats Nigel Short for chess championship
1993 - Milt coup by Burundi Pres Ndadaye/525,000 Hutu's flee
1994 - Rosario Ames, wife of confessed spy Aldrich Ames, was sentenced to 63 months in prison for her role in collaborating with her husband.
1997 - Elton John's tribute to Diana breaks world record, 318 million dist
2001 - In the midst of the anthrax scare, legislative business went on as usual in the House and Senate though Senate office buildings remained closed while the investigation continued into discoveries in the office of Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle and other areas.
Birthdays Today
1574 - Nicolo Rubini, composer
1650 - Jean Bart, French captain/sea hero (Escape from Plymouth)
1772 - Samuel Taylor Coleridge, England, poet (Rime of Ancient Mariner, Kubla Khan)
1790 - Alphonse-Marie Louis de Lamartine, Macon France, writer (Rene)
1833 - Alfred Bernhard Nobel, Stockholm, created dynamite & Nobel Peace Prizes
1839 - Georg von Siemens, founder (Deutsche Bank)
1847 - Guiseppe Giacosa, Italian songwriter (libretti opera Puccini)
1912 - Sir Georg Solti (orchestra leader: Chicago Symphony Orchestra; 1st complete recording of Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen)
1917 - Dizzy (John Birks) Gillespie (Grammy Award-winning musician: trumpet: Oscar Peterson and Dizzy Gillespie [1975], Live at the Royal Festival Hall [1991]; creator [w/Charlie Parker] of be-bop; trademark: puffed cheeks & bent trumpet; autobiography: To Be or Not to Bop)
1921 - Malcolm Arnold, Northampton Engld, composer (Bridge over River Kwai)
1926 - Bob Rosburg (golf: PGA champion [1959]; sportscaster)
1928 - Whitey (Edward) Ford (Baseball Hall of Famer: NY Yankees pitcher: World Series [1950], [1960]; Cy Young Award [1961]; pitching coach; spring training instructor)
1929 - Ursula K[roeber] Le Guin, US, sci-fi author (Tombs of Atuan, The Wind's Twelve Quarters, A Wizard of Earthsea, Left Hand of Darkness)
1933 - Georgia Brown (Lillian Klot) (actress: Oliver, Cheers)
1936 - Connie Dierking (basketball)
1939 - Ted Uhlaender (baseball)
1940 - Manfred Mann (Michael Lubowitz) (singer, musician: group: Mann-Hugg Blues Brothers: Do Wah Diddy Diddy, The Mighty Quinn; Earth Band: Blinded by the Light; solo: High Time, I've Been a Bad, Bad Boy)
1941 - Steve Cropper (musician: guitar: group: Blues Brothers; Booker T and The MG's: Green Onions, Hang 'Em High, Time is Tight)
1942 - Elvin Bishop (musician: guitar, singer: group: Paul Butterfield Blues Band: Drunk Again; Elvin Bishop Group; solo: Fooled Around and Fell in Love)
1943 - Brian Picolo (football: Chicago Bears; subject of film: Brian's Song)
1943 - Ron Elliott (musician: guitar: group: Beau Brummels: Laugh, Laugh, Just a Little, You Tell Me Why; solo: LP: The Candlestick Maker)
1946 - James Hill (football)
1946 - Lee Loughnane (musician: brass: group: Chicago: If You Leave Me Now, Hard to Say I'm Sorry, Does Anybody Really Know What Time It Is?)
1948 - Bill Russell (baseball)
1949 - Benjamin Netanyahu, Israeli prime minister
1954 - Linda Tuero (tennis)
1955 - Eric Faulkner (musician: guitar: group: Bay City Rollers: Saturday Night, Bye Bye Baby, Give Me a Little Love)
1956 - Carrie Fisher (actress: Star Wars series, The Blues Brothers, When Harry Met Sally, Hannah and Her Sisters, Shampoo; writer: Postcards from the Edge, Surrender the Pink, Delusions of Grandma; daughter of Eddie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds)
1957 - Steve Lukather (musician: guitar: group: Toto: Rosanna, Africa, Hold the Line; songwriter: Turn Your Love Around)
1976 - Jeremy Miller (actor: Growing Pains, The Willies, Emanon)
Famous deaths
1422 - Charles VI, King of France (1380-1422), dies at 54
1439 - Traversari Ambrosius, Italian humanist/leader, dies at 53
1765 - Giovanni Paolo Pannini/Panini, Italian painter/architect, dies at 73
1805 - Horatio Nelson, dies in Battle of Trafalgar
1831 - Nat Turner, & 19 associates, hanged at 31
1969 - Jack Kerouac, US writer (Doctor Sax, On the Road), dies at 47
1970 - John T Scopes, US teacher (Scopes "monkey trial" 1925), dies at 70
1984 - Francois Truffaut, dir (Fahrenheit 451), dies of brain cancer at 52
1984 - Indira Gandhi, India PM, killed by her bodyguards
1992 - Jackson Weaver, voice of Smokey the Bear, dies of diabetes
1992 - Jim Garrison, Louisiana DA (investigate JFK assassination), dies at 70
1992 - Shirley Booth, actress (Hazel), dies at 94
1995 - Maxene Andrews, vocalist (Andrews Sister), dies of heart attack at 79
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