Tukuk-OS📅 October 21
13 events · 12 births · 12 deaths
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What happened on October 21? Below are the notable events chosen by Wikipedia’s editors for this date, followed by celebrated births, deaths and the observances recognised around the world.
Events
- 1994 — North Korea and the United States signed the Agreed Framework to limit the former's nuclear weapons program and to normalize relations between the two countries.
- 1994 — In Seoul, South Korea, 32 people were killed and 17 others injured when a span of the Seongsu Bridge collapsed (pictured).
- 1968 — At the height of the Japanese university protests, protesters occupied Shinjuku Station in Tokyo and clashed violently with police.
- 1966 — A coal tip fell on the village of Aberfan, Wales, killing 144 people, mostly schoolchildren.
- 1959 — The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, designed by American architect Frank Lloyd Wright, opened in New York City.
- 1944 — World War II: The three-week-long Battle of Aachen concluded, making the city the first on German soil to be captured by the Allies.
- 1941 — World War II: German soldiers massacred nearly 2,800 Serbs in Kragujevac in reprisal for insurgent attacks in the district of Gornji Milanovac.
- 1910 — HMS Niobe arrived in Halifax Harbour to become the first large ship of the Royal Canadian Navy.
- 1867 — The first and second of three treaties were signed near Medicine Lodge, Kansas, between the United States federal government and several Native American tribes in the Great Plains, requiring them to relocate to areas in present-day western Oklahoma.
- 1858 — French composer Jacques Offenbach's operetta Orpheus in the Underworld, featuring the music most associated with the can-can (audio featured), was first performed at the Théâtre des Bouffes-Parisiens in Paris.
- 1854 — Florence Nightingale and a staff of 38 nurses and 15 nuns were sent to the Ottoman Empire to help treat wounded British soldiers fighting in the Crimean War.
- 1345 — Hundred Years' War: The English victory at the Battle of Auberoche marked a change in the military balance of power in Aquitaine, with the subsequent collapse of the French position.
- 1096 — First Crusade: At the Battle of Civetot, the Seljuk forces of Kilij Arslan destroyed the army of the People's Crusade as it marched toward Nicaea.
Births
- 2002 — Thierno Barry, French footballer
- 1999 — Matteo Gabbia, Italian footballer
- 1998 — Kerem Aktürkoğlu, Turkish footballer
- 1995 — Cameron Burgess, Scottish-Australian footballer
- 1995 — Doja Cat, American rapper, singer and songwriter
- 1995 — Antoinette Guedia Mouafo, Cameroonian swimmer
- 1993 — Kane Brown, American singer and songwriter
- 1992 — Natasha Bassett, Australian actress
- 1992 — Marzia Kjellberg, Italian businessperson and former YouTuber
- 1992 — Damion Lee, American basketball player
- 1992 — Bernard Tomic, German-Australian tennis player
- 1991 — Alexander Burmistrov, Russian ice hockey player
Deaths
- 2025 — Francisco Pinto Balsemão, Portuguese politician, former Prime Minister of Portugal (born 1937)
- 2024 — Mimi Hines, Canadian singer and comedian (born 1933)
- 2023 — Bobby Charlton, English footballer and manager (born 1937)
- 2023 — Bobi, Portuguese dog (born 1992)
- 2023 — Bill Hayden, Australian politician, 21st Governor General of Australia (born 1933)
- 2021 — Bernard Haitink, Dutch conductor and violinist (born 1929)
- 2020 — Frank Bough, English television presenter (born 1933)
- 2015 — France Bučar, Slovenian lawyer and politician (born 1923)
- 2015 — Marty Ingels, American actor (born 1936)
- 2015 — Norman W. Moore, English conservationist and author (born 1923)
- 2015 — Sheldon Wolin, American philosopher, theorist, and academic (born 1922)
- 2014 — Ben Bradlee, American journalist and author (born 1921)
Observances & holidays
- Armed Forces Day (Honduras)
- Christian feast day: Céline of Laon
- Christian feast day: Blessed Charles of Austria (Roman Catholic Church)
- Christian feast day: Fintán of Taghmon
- Christian feast day: Hilarion
- Christian feast day: John of Bridlington
- Christian feast day: Laura of Saint Catherine of Siena
- Christian feast day: Malchus of Syria
- Christian feast day: Pedro Calungsod
- Christian feast day: Peter Yu Tae-chol
- Christian feast day: Severinus of Bordeaux
- Christian feast day: Tuda of Lindisfarne
- Christian feast day: Ursula
- Christian feast day: Viator of Lyons
- Christian feast day: October 21 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
- Egyptian Naval Day (Egypt)
- Indian Police Commemoration Day (India)
- National Nurses' Day (Thailand)
- Ndadaye Day (Burundi)
- Overseas Chinese Day (Republic of China)
- Trafalgar Day (the British Empire in the 19th and early 20th century)
- Birth of the Báb (2017) (Baháʼí Faith)
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