In case you assumed that major events only happen on certain days only. These findings will help clear your assumptions, for there are many historic events happening on a daily basis.
Below is a list of the historic events that happened on October 21.
- 1879 – Thomas Edison invented the electric incandescent lamp that would last 13 1/2 hours before burning out.
- 1918 – Margaret Owen set a typing speed record of 170 words per minute on a manual typewriter.
- 1921 – “The Sheik”, a silent film starring Rudolph Valentino, premiered in Los Angeles.
- 1925 – The photoelectric cell was first demonstrated at the Electric Show in New York City.
- 1925 – The U.S. Treasury Department announced that it had fined 29,620 people for alcohol prohibition violations.
- 1944 – US troops capture Aachen, in World War II, making it the 1st large German city to fall.
- 1945 – For the first time, women in France were allowed to vote.
- 1948 – UN rejected the Russian proposal to destroy atomic weapons.
- 1950 – Chinese forces occupied Tibet.
- 1959 – The Guggenheim Museum displays works from some of the world’s most celebrated and sought-after contemporary artists.
- 1969 – Siad Barre staged a military coup against the Somali government.
- 1980 – Phillies w0n their 1st World Sports Championship in their 98-year history.
- 1980 – American model and actress Kim Kardashian was born.
- 1983 – The 17th General Conference on Weights and Measures Ended.
- 1983 – The Pentagon reported that 2,000 Marines were headed to Grenada to protect and evacuate Americans living there.
- 1986 – In reaction to the Soviet Union expelling five American diplomats, the U.S. ordered 55 Soviet diplomats to leave.
- 1998 – Cancer specialist Dr. Jane Henney became FDA’s first female commissioner.
- 2003 – The U.S. Senate voted to ban partial-birth abortions.
- 2014 – The South African Paralympic Champion Oscar Pistorius got Convicted for 5 Years for the murder of his girlfriend.
- 2014 – Australian politician and the 21st Prime Minister of Australia Gough Whitlam, died on this day.