About October 21
October 21, 2024 is the 295th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 71 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Monday.
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Libra is the sun sign of a person born on this day. Opal is the modern birthstone for this month. Jasper is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 100 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On October 21
- 1096 –People’s Crusade: The Turkish army annihilates the People’s Army of the West.
- 1097 –First Crusade: Crusaders led by Godfrey of Bouillon, Bohemund of Taranto, and Raymond IV of Toulouse, begin the Siege of Antioch.
- 1209 –Otto IV is crowned emperor of the Holy Roman Empire by Pope Innocent III.
- 1797 –In Boston Harbor, the 44-gun United States Navy frigate USS Constitution is launched.
- 1816 –The Penang Free School is founded in George Town, Penang, Malaysia, by the Rev Hutchings. It is the oldest English-language school in Southeast Asia.
- 1892 –Opening ceremonies for the World’s Columbian Exposition are held in Chicago, though because construction was behind schedule, the exposition did not open until May 1, 1893.
- 1902 –In the United States, a five month strike by United Mine Workers ends.
- 1912 –During the First Balkan War, Kardzhali is liberated by Bulgarian forces
- 1921 –George Melford’s silent film, The Sheik, starring Rudolph Valentino, premiers.
- 1945 –Women’s suffrage: Women are allowed to vote in France for the first time.
- 1959 –President Dwight D. Eisenhower signs an executive order transferring Wernher von Braun and other German scientists from the United States Army to NASA.
- 1966 –Aberfan disaster: A slag heap collapses on the village of Aberfan in Wales, killing 144 people, mostly schoolchildren.
- 1967 –Vietnam War: More than 100,000 war protesters gather in Washington, D.C. A peaceful rally at the Lincoln Memorial is followed by a march to The Pentagon and clashes with soldiers and United States Marshals protecting the facility. Similar demonstrations occurred simultaneously in Japan and Western Europe.
- 1969 –A coup d'état in Somalia brings Siad Barre to power.
- 1971 –A gas explosion kills 22 people at a shopping centre in Clarkston, East Renfrewshire, near Glasgow, Scotland.
- 1973 –Fred Dryer of the then Los Angeles Rams becomes the first player in NFL history to score two safeties in the same game.
- 1977 –The European Patent Institute is founded.
- 1986 –In Lebanon, pro-Iranian kidnappers claim to have abducted American writer Edward Tracy (he is released in August 1991).
- 1987 –Jaffna hospital massacre is carried out by Indian Peace Keeping Force in Sri Lanka killing 70 ethnic Tamil patients, doctors and nurses.
- 1994 –In Seoul, 32 people are killed when the Seongsu Bridge collapses.
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