❤ things that happened on October 21st ❤

• 1520 Explorer Ferdinand Magellan and his fleet reach Cape Virgenes and become the first Europeans to sail into the Pacific Ocean
• 1772 Samuel Taylor Coleridge, English romantic poet was born in Ottery St Mary, Devon
• 1803 English scientist John Dalton reads his paper on the absorption of gases by water to the Manchester Literary and Philosophical Soc - 1st outline of his atomic theory
• 1833 Alfred Nobel, Swedish chemist who invented dynamite and founded the Nobel Prizes, was born in Stockholm, Sweden
• 1847 Guiseppe Giacosa, Italian playwright and librettist (Puccini's La Bohème; Madama Butterfly, and Tosca), was born in Colleretto Parella, Kingdom of Sardinia (now Italy)
• 1854 Florence Nightingale with a staff of 38 nurses is sent to the Crimean War
• 1858 Jacques Offenbach's operetta " Orpheus in the Underworld" (Orphée aux Enfers) premieres in Paris, includes "Infernal Galop" (can-can tune)
• 1906 Lillian Asplund, last American Titanic survivor. was born
• 1912 Sir Georg Solti [György Stern], Hungarian-British conductor, winner of 31 Grammy awards, was born in Budapest, Hungary
• 1923 1st planetarium opens at Deutsche Museum in Munich
• 1929 Ursula K. Le Guin, American sci-fi author, was born in Berkeley, California
• 1945 Women in France allowed to vote for 1st time
• 1954 Dorothy Parker/Arnaud d'Usseau's "Ladies of the Corridor" premieres
• 1954 First James Bond movie: A live broadcast of Ian Fleming's Casino Royale on the TV show Climax! It starred Barry Nelson, making him the first 007
• 1956 Carrie Fisher, American actress (Princess Leia in Star Wars) and writer (Postcards from the Edge), was born in Beverly Hills, California
• 1957 Steve Lukather, American rock singer, guitarist, arranger, producer (Toto - "Africa"), was born in San Fernando Valley, California
• 1959 Guggenheim Museum, designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, opens in New York
• 1961 Bob Dylan records his first album in a single day at a cost of $400
• 1964 Film version of "My Fair Lady" directed by George Cukor and starring Rex Harrison and Audrey Hepburn premieres in New York (Academy Awards Best Picture 1965)
• 1964 Jon Carin, American musician (Pink Floyd; The Who), was born in New York
• 1967 The "March on the Pentagon," protesting American involvement in Vietnam , draws 50,000 protesters.
• 1969 Jack Kerouac, American writer (On the Road), dies at 47
• 1971 Nobel prize for literature awarded to Pablo Neruda
• 1973 Lera Auerbach, Russian-American pianist, composer, and poet, was born in Chelyabinsk, Russia
• 1975 Elton John is given a star in Hollywood
• 1983 Aaron Tveit, American actor (Tony award for Moulin Rouge), was born in Middletown New York
• 1990 The first Apple Day, is held in Covent Garden, London
• 1995 Doja Cat (Amala Dlamini), American rapper and singer-songwriter, was born in Los Angeles, California
• 2001 "United We Stand" benefit concert for September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks victims, held at RFK Stadium Washington, D.C. organized and headlined by Michael Jackson and featuring Aerosmith, Mariah Carey and The Backstreet Boys
• 2003 Images of the dwarf planet Eris are taken and subsequently used in its discovery by the team of Michael E. Brown, Chad Trujillo, and David L. Rabinowitz
• 2013 The Parliament of Canada confers Honorary Canadian citizenship on women's rights and education activist Malala Yousafzai
• 2019 World's oldest natural pearl, 8,000 years old, announced discovered during excavations at Marawah Island, near Abu Dhabi, UAE
• 2019 Australia's biggest newspapers all blank out their front pages in protest against press restrictions
• 2020 Pope Francis backs same-sex civil unions in interview in documentary film "Francesco"
• 2020 Nasa Osiris-Rex spacecraft lands briefly on asteroid Bennu on mission to collect dust, largest sample from space since Apollo
• 2020 Viola Smith, American drummer and bandleader (one of the first professional female drummers), dies at 107