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Subject: October 21 Events in History

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Date Posted: 00:15:19 10/21/08 Tue

October 21 Events in History - October 21 Birthdays - October 21 Deaths

October 21, 1998 World Series, New York Yankees beat San Diego Padres 4 games to 0
October 21, 1997 Elton John's tribute to Diana breaks world record, 318 million dist
October 21, 1997 Cleve Marquis Grissom hit in his 15th straight World Series game (streak ends at 15, he is 2nd to Hank Baur with 17)
October 21, 1995 Addison Vance, 18, of Hickory NC, crowned 7th Ms Venus Swimwear
October 21, 1995 Mario Tremblay, selected 22nd NHL coach of Montreal Canadians
October 21, 1994 Hana bridge is Seoul Korea crashes, 32+ die
October 21, 1994 North Korea signs pact to end their nuclear projects
October 21, 1993 "Twilight of the Golds" opens at Booth Theater New York City for 29 performances
October 21, 1993 Gary Kasparov defeats Nigel Short for chess championship
October 21, 1993 Milt coup by Burundi President Ndadaye/525,000 Hutu's flee
October 21, 1992 Madonna's book "Sex" goes on sale
October 21, 1991 24 die in a fire in Oakland, California
October 21, 1991 Former California Governor Jerry Brown announce run for presidency
October 21, 1991 U.S. hostage Jesse Turner released from 5 years in captivity in Beirut
October 21, 1990 Esther Canseco calls Oakland A's manager Tony La Russa a "punk" for not starting husband Jose in the World Series
October 21, 1989 "Dangerous Games" closes at Nederlander Theater New York City after 4 performances
October 21, 1989 Buck Helm found alive after being buried 4 days, in San Francisco earthquake
October 21, 1989 Houston becomes 1st major college team to gain 1000 yards in a game
October 21, 1989 1st black owners (Betram Lee and Peter Bynoe) to own a major sports team, purchasing Denver Nuggets for $65m
October 21, 1988 Boston Celtics beat Yugoslavia 113-85 in Madrid
October 21, 1988 Ferdinand and Imelda Marcos indicted on racketeering charges
October 21, 1987 7th Belgium government of Martens forms
October 21, 1987 Nobel prize for economy awarded to Robert M. Solow
October 21, 1987 Senate debate begins rejecting Robert Bork's Supreme Court nomination
October 21, 1986 1st-class cricket debut of Andy Flower, ZCU Presidents XI vs. Young WI
October 21, 1986 Hugh Whitemore's "Breaking the Code," premieres in London
October 21, 1986 IBM re-forms in South Africa
October 21, 1986 Republic of Marshall Islands signs Compact of Free Association with US
October 21, 1986 U.S. writer Edward A. Tracy kidnap in Beirut
October 21, 1985 Qasim Omar (206) and Javed Miandad (203*) make 397 stand vs. SL
October 21, 1984 Cleveland Browns' Steve Cox sets club record with a 60-yd field goal
October 21, 1984 Niki Lauda becomes 3rd time motor racing world champ
October 21, 1984 Steve Jones runs Chicago Marathon in world record 2:08:05
October 21, 1983 Pope John Paul II names 3 new Dutch bishops
October 21, 1980 "Banjo Dancing" opens at Century Theater New York City for 38 performances
October 21, 1980 1st (& only) time Phillies win World Series (in 98 years)
October 21, 1980 Phillies win their 1st World Championship in their 98-year history
October 21, 1979 10th New York City Marathon won by Bill Rodgers in 2:11:42
October 21, 1979 9th New York City Women's Marathon won by Grete Waitz in 2:27:33
October 21, 1979 Greta Weitz wins woman participation in New York City marathon (02:27:33)
October 21, 1979 Israeli minister of Foreign affairs Moshe Dayan resigns
October 21, 1979 Ozzie Newsome begins NFL streak of 150 consecutive game receptions
October 21, 1977 U.S. recalls William Bowdler, ambassador to South Africa
October 21, 1976 American Saul Bellow wins Nobel Prize for Literature
October 21, 1976 Cin Reds sweep New York Yankees, in 73rd World Series
October 21, 1976 New York Knicks retire 1st number, # 19, Willis Reed
October 21, 1976 New York Yankee Thurman Munson ties World Series mark of 6 straight singles
October 21, 1976 Nobel prize for literature awarded to Saul Bellow
October 21, 1975 "Treemonisha" opens at Uris Theater New York City for 64 performances
October 21, 1975 Coast Guard Academy 1st allows women to enroll
October 21, 1975 Elton John given a star in Hollywood
October 21, 1975 Mexico City's 1st major subway accident takes 26 lives
October 21, 1975 Red Sox Carlton Fisk's 12th inning HR beats Reds 7-6 in game 6 of WS
October 21, 1975 U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya U.S.S.R.
October 21, 1975 Venera 9, 1st craft to orbit planet Venus launched
October 21, 1974 1st Islander shut-out opponent-Billy Smith 5-0 vs Caps
October 21, 1974 Sandra Palmer wins LPGA Cubic Corp Golf Classic
October 21, 1973 A's manager Dick Williams quits after A's beat Mets in World Series
October 21, 1973 Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Waco Tribune Herald Ladies Golf Classic
October 21, 1972 "Dude" closes at Broadway Theater New York City after 16 performances
October 21, 1972 "Man of La Mancha" closes at Beaumont Theater New York City after 140 performances
October 21, 1972 "Pacific Paradise" closes at Palace Theater New York City after 5 performances
October 21, 1971 "To Live Another Summer" opens at Helen Hayes New York City for 173 performances
October 21, 1971 Nobel prize for literature awarded to Pablo Neruda
October 21, 1971 U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk U.S.S.R.
October 21, 1971 William H Rehnquist and Lewis F Powell nominated to U.S. Supreme Court by Nixon, following resignations of Justices Hugo Black and John Harlan
October 21, 1970 777 Unification church couples wed in Korea
October 21, 1970 Caledonian Airways takes over British United Airways
October 21, 1970 Nobel prize of peace awarded to Norman E Borlaugh
October 21, 1969 Bloodless coup in Somalia (National Day)
October 21, 1969 Leonard Gersh' "Butterflies are Free," premieres in New York City
October 21, 1969 Willy Burns elected chancellor of West Germany
October 21, 1969 Maj Gen Mohamed Siad Barre becomes President of Somali
October 21, 1967 Egypt sinks Israeli torpedo boat
October 21, 1967 Thousands opposing Vietnam War try to storm Pentagon
October 21, 1966 144 die as a coal waste landslide engulfed a school in Aberfan S Wales
October 21, 1965 KTWU TV channel 11 in Topeka, KS (PBS) begins broadcasting
October 21, 1965 Nobel prize for chemistry awarded to Robert B Woodward
October 21, 1965 Robert B. Woodward awarded Nobel prize for chemistry
October 21, 1965 Vivian Beaumont Theater (New York City) opens
October 21, 1964 Abebe Bikila runs world/olympic record marathon (2:12:11.2)
October 21, 1964 Braves ask NL to allow them to leave Milwaukee for Atlanta
October 21, 1962 Mickey Wright wins LPGA Carlsbad Cavern Golf Open
October 21, 1961 Barbra Striesand opens in "Another Evening with Harry Stones"
October 21, 1961 U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Sary Shagan U.S.S.R.
October 21, 1960 1st British nuclear sub Dreadnought launched
October 21, 1960 John F. Kennedy and Nixon clashed in 4th and final presidential debate (New York City)
October 21, 1959 Contra revolutionaries bomb Havana
October 21, 1959 Guggenheim Museum, by Frank Lloyd Wright, opens in N.Y.C.
October 21, 1959 Players Association approves 2 All-Star Games in 1960, to be held in Kansas City and NY
October 21, 1958 1st women in English House of Lords
October 21, 1957 Giants purchase Class-A Phoenix team
October 21, 1957 Jailhouse Rock starring Elvis Presley opens
October 21, 1957 Marlene Hagge wins LPGA Lawton Golf Open
October 21, 1956 Betty Dodd wins LPGA Lawton Golf Open
October 21, 1954 Dorothy Parker/Arnaud d'Usseau's "Ladies of the Corridor," premieres
October 21, 1954 Indonesian troops land in New-Guinea
October 21, 1952 Dutch government refuses New-Guinea (West-Irian)
October 21, 1950 Chinese forces occupy Tibet
October 21, 1950 Death penality abolished in Belgium
October 21, 1950 Patty Berg wins LPGA Hardscrabble Women's Golf Invitation
October 21, 1950 Tom Powers of Duke scores 6 touchdowns
October 21, 1948 Beersheba liberated by Israeli army
October 21, 1948 Dutch Constellation crashes at Prestwick Scotland (40 murder)
October 21, 1948 Facsimile high-speed radio transmission demonstrated (Washington D.C.)
October 21, 1948 U.N. reject Russian proposal to destroy atomic weapons
October 21, 1947 Dutch Dakota explodes near Coopenhagen, 16 die
October 21, 1945 Women in France allowed to vote for 1st time
October 21, 1944 Canadian troops occupy Breskens
October 21, 1944 During WW II, U.S. troops capture Aachen, 1st large German city to fall
October 21, 1944 Walter Piston's "Fugue for a Victory Tune," premieres in New York City
October 21, 1940 RAF drops 1st anti-nazi pamphlets on Netherlands
October 21, 1938 Japanese troops occupies Canton
October 21, 1937 Dmitri Shostakovitch's 5th Symphony premieres
October 21, 1937 Franco-troops occupies Gijon
October 21, 1935 Hank Greenberg selected AL MVP unanimously
October 21, 1925 Sidney Howards "Lucky Sam McGarver," premieres in New York City
October 21, 1924 KLM Fokker's F7 H-NACC departs to Dutch East Indies
October 21, 1923 1st planetarium opens at Deutsche Museum in Munich
October 21, 1921 Tuschinski Theater opens in Amsterdam
October 21, 1918 Margaret Owen sets world typing speed record of 170 wpm for 1 min
October 21, 1917 1st Americans to see action on front lines of WW I
October 21, 1917 Petrograds garrison accepts Revolutionary Military Committee
October 21, 1916 U.S. Army forms Reserve Officers Training Corps
October 21, 1915 1st transatlantic radiotelephone message, Arlington, Virginia to Paris
October 21, 1914 Battle of Warsaw ends with German defeat
October 21, 1911 RS Hichens and M Hudsons "Garden of Allah," premieres in New York City
October 21, 1911 Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta Unions form Western Canada Rugby Football Union
October 21, 1905 England Pilgrim Association beats All New York 11, 7-1 in soccer at Polo Grounds
October 21, 1899 Battle at Elandslaagte Natal: (Boers vs British army)
October 21, 1897 Yerkes Observatory of University of Chicago is dedicated
October 21, 1887 Detroit clinches best-of-15 touring World Championship with its 8th victory in Game 11 this afternoon in Baltimore, 13-3
October 21, 1879 Thomas Edison perfects carbonized cotton filament light bulb
October 21, 1878 German republic chancellor Bismarck delegates end of "Socialism"
October 21, 1871 1st U.S. amateur outdoor athletic games (NY)
October 21, 1869 1st shipment of fresh oysters comes overland from Baltimore
October 21, 1868 Severe earthquake at 7:53 AM, centered in Hayward, California
October 21, 1864 Battle of Westport, MO (Kansas City)
October 21, 1861 Battle of Balls Bluff, Virginia (Leesburg, Harrison's Island)
October 21, 1858 In Paris, the Can-Can is 1st performed
October 21, 1858 Jacques Offenbach's opera "Orphee aux Enfers," premieres in Paris
October 21, 1824 Joseph Aspdin patents Portland cement (Yorkshire England)
October 21, 1805 Battle of Trafalgar, Adm Nelson defeats French and Spanish fleet and dies
October 21, 1797 U.S. Navy frigate Constitution, Old Ironsides, launched in Boston
October 21, 1727 Russian and Chinese accord to correct boundaries
October 21, 1708 Dutch and English troops occupy Lille (Rijsel)
October 21, 1652 King Louis XIV returns to Paris
October 21, 1641 Catholic uprising in Ulster: 1000s English and Scots killed
October 21, 1639 Dunes (Marten Tromp defeats Spanish armada under De Oquendo)
October 21, 1639 Sea battle at Dunes: lt-adm Maarten Tromp beats Spanish Armada
October 21, 1601 Memorial service for Daitokuji's Shinju held for Ikkyu Sojun in Kyoto
October 21, 1591 Nijmegen surrenders to Earl Mauritius van Nassau
October 21, 1568 2nd Altenburger sermon: Philippisten/Gnesiolutheranen
October 21, 1555 Emperor Charles V makes Erard of Pallandt earl of Culemborg
October 21, 1555 English parliament refuses to recognize Philip of Spain as king
October 21, 1553 Volumes of Talmud are burned
October 21, 1520 Ferdinand Magellen arrives at Tierra Del Fuego (Pacific Ocean)
October 21, 1496 Emperor Maximiliaans daughter marries Spanish crown prince Johan of Aragon/Philip de Blank marries Johanna "the Waanzinnige" of Aragon
October 21, 1492 Columbus lands on San Salvador Island
October 21, 1492 Columbus' discovers America (Oct 12, 1492 Julian calender)
October 21, 1096 Sultan Kilidj Arslan of Nicea defeats 1st Crusaders
October 21, 686 Conon begins his reign as Catholic Pope
October 21, 335 Constantinople emperor Constantine the Great rules laws against Jews
October 21, 310 St. Eusebius ends his reign as Catholic Pope

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