FRIDAY, OCTOBER 21, 2016

Today is Friday, October 21, the 295th day of 2016. There are 71 days left in the year.

1520 ― Magellan entered the strait which bears his name

1553 ― Volumes of the Talmud are burned

1797 ― US Navy frigate Constitution, Old Ironsides, launched in Boston

1805 ― Battle of Trafalgar, Adm Nelson defeats French & Spanish fleet & dies

1861 ― Battle of Balls Bluff, Va

1868 ― Severe earthquake at 7:53 AM, centered in Hayward, Calif

1869 ― 1st shipment of fresh oysters comes overland from Baltimore

1871 ― 1st US amateur outdoor athletic games (NY)

1879 ― Thomas Edison perfects the carbonized cotton filament light bulb

1897 ― Yerkes Observatory of the University of Chicago is dedicated

1905 ― England Pilgrim Assn beats All NY 11, 7-1 in soccer at Polo Grounds

1915 ― 1st transatlantic radiotelephone message, Arlington, Va to Paris

1917 ― 1st Americans to see action on the front lines of WW I

1918 ― Margaret Owen sets world typing speed record of 170 wpm for 1 min

1935 ― Hank Greenberg selected AL MVP unanimously

1944 ― During WWII, US troops capture Aachen, 1st large German city to fall

1945 ― Women in France allowed to vote for 1st time

1948 ― Facsimile high-speed radio transmission demonstrated (Washington DC)

1950 ― Chinese forces occupy Tibet

1950 ― Tom Powers of Duke scores 6 touchdowns

1959 ― Guggenheim Museum, designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, opens (NYC)

1960 ― JFK & Nixon clashed in 4th & final presidential debate (NYC)

1966 ― 144 die as a coal waste landslide engulfs a school in S Wales

1967 ― Thousands opposing Vietnam War try to storm the Pentagon

1969 ― Bloodless coup in Somalia (National Day)

1970 ― 777 Unification church couples wed in Korea

1970 ― Caledonian Airways takes over British United Airways

1971 ― Nixon nominates Lewis F Powell & William H Rehnquist to US Supreme Court, following resignations of Justices Hugo Black & John Harlan

1973 ― A’s manager Dick Williams quits after A’s beat Mets in 70th World Series

1974 ― 1st Islander shut-out opponent-Billy Smith 5-0 vs Caps

1975 ― Mexico City’s 1st major subway accident takes 26 lives

1975 ― Red Sox Carlton Fisk’s 12th inning HR beats Reds 7-6 in game 6 of WS

1975 ― Venera 9, first craft to orbit the planet Venus launched

1976 ― American Saul Bellow wins Nobel Prize for Literature

1976 ― Cin Reds sweep NY Yankees, in 73rd World Series

1976 ― NY Knicks retire 1st number, # 19, Willis Reed

1977 ― US recalls William Bowdler, ambassador to South Africa

1979 ― Greta Waitz wins woman participation in NYC marathon (02:27:33)

1980 ― 1st (& only) time Phillies win the World Series (in 98 years) (World Series #77)

1984 ― Steve Jones runs Chicago Marathon in world record 2:08:05

1987 ― Senate debate begins rejecting Robert Bork’s Supreme Ct nomination

1988 ― Boston Celtics beat Yugoslavia 113-85 in Madrid

1988 ― Ferdinand & Imelda Marcos indicted on racketeering charges

1989 ― Buck Helm found alive after being buried 4 days, in SF earthquake

1989 ― Houston becomes 1st major college team to gain 1000 yards in a game

1989 ― 1st black owners (Betram Lee & Peter Bynoe) to own a major sports team, purchasing Denver Nuggets for $65m

1991 ― 24 die in a fire in Oakland Calif