October 21-Know Birthday & Past Events & National Days

October 21 2022 is Friday. Here you can get Past events and historical events on 21st October. Which day is celebrated, Holidays & Observances, National and Special Days on October 21. Explore Worldwide Events, Zodiac Sign, Birthday of Celebrity & famous personalities and much more on this date.

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Here You Know the Holidays, Observances, Special Day & National Day on October 21

Check out below about 21st October in history or October 21 special day. Looking for information about today special day ? If not, check out below. On this Special day today 21 October in history, falls the birthdays anniversaries of various well-known people . You would also find out about events that happened that make it today special day.

294th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar.
Western Zodiac- Libra
International Day of the Nacho
Police Commemoration Day– Every year, on October 21, police forces across India mark “Commemoration Day” to honour the heroic memories of those officers who gave their lives in the line of duty.
National Apple Day
Count Your Buttons Day
National Reptile Awareness Day
National Pumpkin Cheesecake Day

List of Holidays Observed across World Wide on 21st October

Army Day- Honduras
Father’s Day- Belarus
Hawke’s Bay Anniversary Day- New Zealand
Overseas Chinese Day- Taiwan
President Ndadaye’s Day- Burundi

Famous Personalities & Celebrities Birthday on October 21

Here are some well-known persons who have birthdays today, including Kim Kardashian West, Elvin Bishop, Kim Hardwicke, Steve Lukather, Kane Brown, Hope Hicks and more.

1995 Doja Cat American Singer and Rapper
1986 Natalee Holloway American missing person
1980 Kim Kardashian American model, actress
1956 Carrie Fisher American actress, screenwriter, author
1949 Benjamin Netanyahu Israeli politician, 9th Prime Minister of Israel
1942 Judith Sheindlin is a prosecution lawyer, television personality, and author.
1917 Dizzy Gillespie Jazz trumpeter, bandleader and singer
1772 Samuel Taylor Coleridge English poet, philosopher

Past and Historical Major Events & News in English on October 21

2014-The South African Paralympic Champion was on trial for murdering his girlfriend, Reeva Steenkamp.
1983-The conference defined a metre as the distance light travels in vacuum in three hundred millionths of a second.
1969- After Somalia’s president, Abdirashid Ali Shermarke, died, Siad Barre attempted a military coup.
1959 – The Guggenheim Museum exhibits works by modern painters.
1943 – Exiled Indian nationalist Bose established Azad Hind, or Free India, in Singapore.
Thomas Edison made an incandescent light that could be sold in 1879 at his industrial research lab in Menlo Park, New Jersey.
1947-Forest fires in Maine continue to burn millions of acres of land and destroy homes.
1958-In Macon County, Alabama, it is hard for the Civil Rights Commission to get access to voter records from the county.
1967-100,000 people march on the Pentagon, but violence breaks out during the march.
1973: Nixon wants to give Israel a package of military aid worth $2.2 billion.
1986: Scientists have been looking at a huge hole in the earth’s ozone layer over Antarctica through a satellite link from Antarctica.
1998: The Nevada Athletic Commission has given Mike Tyson back his licence to box.
2001: Anthrax has been found in a ninth person. This person is a postal worker in Washington.
1520-Ferdinand Magellan and three Spanish ships sailed through the strait that was later named for him. They went between the tip of South America and the island of Tierra del Fuego to get to the Pacific Ocean. The strait was later named after Magellan.