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The
21t o October
is the 294t day o the year (295t in lowp years) in the Gregorian Calendar, wi 71 days bidin.
Events
- 1520
-
Ferdinand Magellan
's expedeetion reaches the nou-named
Magellan Strait
in the Sooth o
Sooth Americae
.
- 1600
-
Battle
o Sekigahara in
Japan
.
- 1805
-
Battle o Trafalgar
: Breetish forces defeat French an Spainyie forces in a naval battle, awtho Breetish admiral
Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscoont Nelson
is kilt.
- 1907
- A
yirdquauk
in
Central Asie
kills at least 12,000 fowk.
- 1944
-
Warld War II
: The Allies capture the ceety o
Aachen
,
Germany
.
- 1945
- Weemen are allowed tae vote in
Fraunce
.
- 1948
- A Lockheed Constellation
aircraft
crashes at
Prestwick
,
Scotland
.
- 1966
- The Aberfan disaster in
Wales
kills 144 fowk, maist o them bairns.
- 1969
-
Willy Brandt
becomes Chancellor o
Wast Germany
.
- 1970
- The Little Belt Brig opens, connectin
Jutland
an
Funen
in
Denmark
.
- 1971
-
Clairkstoun explosion
: A gas splosion in
Clairkstoun
,
East Renfrewshire
,
Scotland
, kills 22 fowk.
- 1986
- The
Marshall Islands
(in the
Paceefic Ocean
) gain unthirldom frae the
Unitit States
.
- 1994
- The Seongsu Brig in
Seoul
,
Sooth Korea
, collapses, killin 32 fowk.
- 2005
- The 200t anniversary o the
Battle o Trafalgar
is mairkit.
- 2005
-
Hurricane Wilma
hits
Mexico
's
Yucatan
peninsula.
- 2007
-
Donald Tusk
is electit
Prime meenister
o
Poland
.
- 2016
- A train crash in Eseka,
Cameroon
, kills at least 55 fowk.
- 2017
-
Spain
's govrenment stairts the process o takin direct control o the region o
Catalonie
, efter its disputit
1 October
unthirldom referendum.
- 2019
-
Canadae
holds a general election:
Justin Trudeau
's Leeberal Pairty retains pouer but wi a reduced nummer o seats an a minority govrenment; The opposeetion Conservatives nairraely win the popular vote.
Births
- 1328
-
Hongwu Emperor
o
Cheenae
(d.
1398
)
- 1772
-
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
, Inglis poet an philosopher (d.
1834
)
- 1809
-
John Stenhouse
, Scots chemist (d.
1880
)
- 1833
-
Alfred Nobel
, Swadish chemist, ingineer an inventor, haes
Nobel Prizes
named efter him (d.
1896
)
- 1910
-
Jimmy Adams
, Scots gowfer (d.
1986
)
- 1912
-
Georg Solti
, Hungarian-Breetish conductor (d.
1997
)
- 1917
-
Dizzy Gillespie
, American trumpeter, componer an bandleader (d.
1993
)
- 1921
-
Malcolm Arnold
, Inglis componer (d.
2006
)
- 1925
-
Celia Cruz
, Cuban sangster (d.
2003
)
- 1929
-
Ursula K. Le Guin
, American writer (d.
2018
)
- 1931
-
Shammi Kapoor
, Indian actor an director (d.
2011
)
- 1940
-
Marita Petersen
,
Prime meenister
o the
Faroe Islands
(d.
2001
)
- 1942
-
Christopher A. Sims
, American economist
- 1949
?
Benjamin Netanyahu
,
Prime meenister
o
Israel
- 1952
-
Patti Davis
, dochter o
Nancy
an
Ronald Reagan
- 1953
-
Peter Mandelson
, Inglis politeecian
- 1956
-
Carrie Fisher
, American actress an writer (d.
2016
)
- 1957
-
Wolfgang Ketterle
, German pheesicist
- 1958
-
Andre Geim
, Roushie-born pheesicist
- 1969
-
Chris Law
, Scots politeecian
- 1971
-
Hal Duncan
, Scots writer
- 1980
-
Kim Kardashian
, American telly personality
- 1992
-
Bernard Tomic
, Australian tennis player
Daiths
- 1422
-
Charles VI o Fraunce
(b.
1368
)
- 1805
-
Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscoont Nelson
, Inglis admiral (b.
1758
)
- 1931
-
Arthur Schnitzler
, Austrick writer (b.
1862
)
- 1934
-
Robin Welsh
, Scots curler (b.
1869
)
- 1969
-
Jack Kerouac
, American writer (b.
1921
)
- 1978
-
Anastas Mikoyan
, Soviet-Armenie politeecian (b.
1895
)
- 1980
-
Hans Asperger
, Austrick medicinar an psychologist (b.
1906
)
- 2012
-
Yash Chopra
, Indian director, producer an screenwriter (b.
1932
)
- 2012
-
George McGovern
, American politeecian (b.
1922
)
- 2014
-
Gough Whitlam
,
Prime Meenister o Australie
(b.
1916
)
- 2018
-
Seymour Crawford
, Erse politeecian (b.
1944
)
- 2021
-
Halyna Hutchins
, American-Ukrainian cinematografer an jurnalist (b.
1979
)
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