21. October

of the 21. October is the 294. Day of the Gregorian calendar (the 295. in leap years), thus 71 days up to the year end remain.

of events

Nelsons flagship “Victory” around 1900 in Portsmouth

• 1520: Ferdinand Magellan succeeds the passage by the Magellan route. Its journey supplies the proof that the earth is a ball
• 1600: Battle of Sekigahara in Japan
• 1805: In the battle of Trafalgar Napoléons of invasion plans fail by Horatio Nelson, death of Horatio Nelson
• 1850: The states of the German federation agree upon the introduction that to the Dresdens convention Passport map and thus the abolishment of the visa obligation in the German domestic passenger traffic
• 1904: In the North Sea the Russian fleet fires at English Fischerboote, which it regards as Japanese torpedo boats, with the Doggerbank. The relations between England and Russia heavily loads
• 1918: Germany places the unrestricted submarine war one
• 1919: The Republic of German Austria is renamed in Republic of Austria
• 1921: Exkaiser Karl I. from Austria tries for the second time, on the Hungarian throne to return
• 1923: Separatists call those in Aachen Rheini republic from
• 1928: Alfred Hugenberg becomes a chairman of the DNVP
• 1930: Carl Severing becomes new Prussian Minister of the Interior
• 1935: The German withdrawal from the Völkerbund becomes legally effective
• 1937: After the occupation of the northSpanish Gijón is the entireSpanish north coast under control of the nationalistic troops Francos
• 1938: Conquest of the southChinese city canton by Japanese troops in the Chinese-Japanese war
• 1939: German Italian agreement for resettling of south animal oilers in the realm
• 1944: Aachen becomes as the first German large city of1944 conquer
• the allied one: Members of the Red Army commit the first larger massacre in the eastPrussian village Nemmersdorf with its invasion into the realm area at that time
• 1945: Woman right to vote in France
• 1948: The UN leans the Soviet. Request upDestruction of all nuclear weapons starting from
• 1950: The Frenchmen vacate further fortresses in Viet Nam with Langson
• 1956: Re-election of Wladislaw Gomulka to the party chief of the kp Poland
• 1969: Willy Brandt is selected to the Federal Chancellor in West Germany. The first social liberal Federal Governmenttheir work takes on
• 1971: The Congo state renamed in Zaire
• 1973: Archie soon Cox, special prosecutor in the Watergate - case will dismiss from Richard Nixon. Minister of Justice Richardson steps 1976 from protest
• back: The UN-plenary assembly selects the Federal Republic of Germanyfor two years into the security council
• 1993: Burundi. Putschversuch. Murder of president Melchior Ndadaye
• 2002: King Abdullah II. of Jordanian ones on state visit in Germany
• 2004: In the Cuban newspapers the ambiguous headline ensures „Fidel Castrofallen! “for attention: The Prime Minister tightened itself several fractures, when he fell down after a public appearance stairs

economics

• 2002: In Mexico the summit meeting of the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation APEC [

science andTechnology

• 1879: The first market-suited lamp Edisons exists one lasted from over 40 hours in the Menlo park laboratory from new jersey
• 1970: Release of the bridge over the small Belt for traffic
• 1971: The high Tauern becomes[work on] culture

national park

• 1727: Premiere of the Melodrams „Teuzzone “ of Attilio Ariosti at the King's Theatre in London
• 1891: Premiere of the tragic opera „Vendetta “ of Alexander of Fielitz in Luebeck
• 1913: Premiere of the opera „the fair of Sorotschinzy “ (Orig.: Sorotschinskaja jarmarka) of Modest Petrowitsch mash ensuring ski at the free theatre in Moscow
• 1919: Premiere of the opera „Fennimore and Gerda “ of Frederick Delius at the opera house in Frankfurt toMain
• 1925: The painter Paul Klee points to of Paris for the first time some its works
• 1951: Gottfried Benn receives the George book he price
• 1959: The Guggenheim museum in New York opens
• 1964: „My fair lady “ with Audrey Hepburnreligion comes 1945 into

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• ]: Bishop Stepinac protests to disasters against church pursuit in

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• 1868: An earthquake of unknown quantity strength demands 30 dead ones in Hayward, California,
• 1907: An earthquakethe strength demands 8.1 in central Asia approx. 12.000 dead ones
• 1930: With a heavy pit misfortune in when village with Aachen there are 250 dead ones
• 1948: Prestwick, Scotland. 34 persons die with a crash of a Lockheed Constellation. Captainthe machine was the Netherlands aviation pioneer Koene Dirk Parmentier
• 1973: With an inundation near Spanish Grenada approximately 500 humans die
• 2005: Hurricane Wilma rages over the Mexican peninsula Yucatán

sport

• 1959 the football selection of the German Federal Republic wins in Cologne before 70.000 spectators against the Netherlands 7:0 (2: 0)

Entries from athlete IC world records are under the respective discipline under Leichtathletik; for events within the range formula 1 see there.

born

• 1595: Lucasvan Uden, Belgian painter
• 1638 - Johann Samuel Adami, theologian, writer and language researcher
• 1660: George Ernst Stahl, chemist and physician
• 1675: Higashiyama, 113. Emperor of Japan
• 1764: János Bihari, Hungarian composer („gypsy violonists “)
• 1772: Samuel T. Coleridge, English poet
• 1790: Alphonse de Lamartine, French poet
• 1807: Napoléon Henri Reber, French composer
• 1832: Gustav Langenscheidt, German publisher
• 1833: Alfreds Nobel, Swedish inventor and Industrieller
• 1836: Adolf black, Austria-Hungarian chess master
• 1839: George von Siemens, German banker
• 1847: EDP pool of broadcasting corporations of fire, Danish culture politician and writer
• 1850: Hermann Mueller, Swiss wine researcher
• 1874: Henri Guisan, Swiss general during secondWorld war
• 1877: Oswald Theodore Avery, Canadian physician
• 1884: Claire forest off, German Kabarettistin
• 1891: Ted Shawn, US-American dancer
• 1892: Otto mink, German football player and first realm coach of the DFB
• 1895: Shukichi Mitsukuri,Japanese composer
• 1897: George knight of Hengl, German general of the mountain troop (armed forces)
• 1898: Heinrich walter, Swiss Geobotaniker and Öko physiologist
• 1901: Margarete Buber Neumann, German authoress
• 1902: Briefly sharp, German theologian
• 1905: Arnold Verhoeven, German politician
• 1911: Vladimir Ussachevski, Russian-American composer
• 1912: George Solti, British-Hungarian conductor
• 1917: John Dizzy Gillespie, US-American musician
• 1917: Heinz Oskar cousin, German trade unionist, chairman of the DGB
• 1918: Milton sky color, US American of Jewish writers
• 1923: Refuge Herold, president of the Federal Criminal Investigation Office
• 1925: Celia Cruz, Cuban singer
• 1926: Eberhard Fechner, German director
• 1926: Leo Kirch, German Medienmogul
• 1929: Ursula K. LeGuin, American Science Fiction and Fantasy authoress
• 1932: Cesare Perdisa, Italian running driver
• 1937: Michael Landon, US-American actor
• 1940: Manfred man, South African musician and Songschreiber
• 1942: Elvin Bishop, US-American musician
• 1945: Nikita Mikhalkov, Russian director
• 1945: Michael Kraus, German commercial artist and artist from Olpe/Biggesee
• 1951: Bernd rawwho, German politician
• 1953: Peter Benjamin Mandelson, British politician
• 1954: Phillip Chen, British musician
• 1957: Wolfgang Ketterle, German physicist
• 1958: Julio Médem, Spanish film director and film script author
• 1958: Udo Wachtveitl, German actor (scene)
• 1967: Paul Ince, English football player
• 1968: Kerstin Andreae, German politician
• 1976: Mélanie Turgeon, CanadianSkirennläuferin
• 1982: Jeremiah Rutherford, Nauruan Gewichtheber

died

• 1125: Cosmas of Prague, böhmischer chronicler of the Middle Ages
• 1266: Birger Jarl, Swedish statesman
• 1422: Karl VI., King of France
• 1500: Go-Tsuchimikado, 103. Emperor Japans
• 1535: Christian Beyer, Saxonian chancellor
• 1556: Pietro Aretino, Italian writer
• 1558: Julius Caesar Scaliger, human
• 1803: Alberto Fortis, Italian scholar
• 1805: Horatio Nelson, British admiral
• 1881: Eduard Heine, German mathematician
• 1892: Anne Charlotte Leffler, Swedish authoress
• 1904: Isabelle Eberhardt, Russian-Swiss Entdeckerin and travel authoress
• 1916: Karl realm count von Stürgkh, Austrian Prime Minister
• 1924: Martin Marsick, Belgian violin virtuoso and - teachers
• 1931: Arthur Schnitzler, Austrian storyteller and dramatist
• 1944: Alois Kayser, German Missionar on Nauru
• 1948: Koene Dirk Parmentier, Netherlands aviation pioneer
• 1951: Willy Fischer, GermanPolitician
• 1961: Karl Korsch, Erneuerer of a Marxist philosophy and theory
• 1964: Andrej Afanassowitsch Babajew, Azerbaijani composer
• 1967: Ejnar cycle per second jump, Danish astronomer
• 1968: Gertrude Pritzi, Austrian Tischtennisspielerin
• 1969: Jack Kerouac, US AmericanWriter
• 1969: Waclaw Sierpinski, Polish mathematician
• 1970: Ernest Haller, US-American cameraman
• 1974: Frederik Jacobus Johannes Buytendijk, joint founder of the psychological anthropology
• 1975: Charles Reidpath, US-American architect-general, town planner, athlete and olympia winner
• 1980: Hans Asperger, Austrian child physician
• 1982: Hermann mountain, German politician and MdB
• 1984: François Truffaut, French director, film critic, actor and producer
• 1992: Jim Garrison, public prosecutor of new Orleans
• 1994: Burt Lancaster, US AmericanFilm looking player
• 1995: Hans Helfritz, German composer, music scientist and writer
• 2002: Jesse Leonard Greenstein, US-American astronomer
• 2002: Manfred Ewald, highest sport functionary of the former GDR
• 2003: Elliott Smith, US-American singer-songwriter
• 2004: Weronika Tscherkassowa, Byelorussian lady journalist

of celebration and anniversaries

• church anniversaries
  • Hl. Hilarion of Gaza, Bekenner
  • Hl. Ursula of Cologne and companions, Märtyrinnen (catholic)

see also: Historical anniversaries, time scale