30 Mehr 1387 | Tuesday 21 October 2008

This day in four calendars

1512 (514 years ago) Martin Luther joins the theological faculty of the University of Wittenberg.
1879 (147 years ago) Thomas Edison applies for a patent for his design for an incandescent light bulb.
1941 (85 years ago) World War II: The Kragujevac massacre against Serbian men and boys takes place.
1978 (48 years ago) Australian civilian pilot Frederick Valentich vanishes over the Bass Strait south of Melbourne, after reporting contact with an unidentified aircraft.
1989 (37 years ago) In Honduras, 131 people are killed when a Boeing 727 crashes on approach to Toncontín International Airport near the nation's capital Tegucigalpa.
2011 (15 years ago) Iraq War: President Barack Obama announces that the withdrawal of United States troops from Iraq will be complete by the end of the year.
2019 (7 years ago) In Canada, the 2019 Canadian federal election ends, resulting in incumbent Prime Minister Justin Trudeau remaining in office, albeit with the Liberal Party in a minority government.
2019 (7 years ago) Thirty people are killed in a fiery bus crash in western Democratic Republic of the Congo.

1772 (254 years ago) Samuel Taylor Coleridge, English poet, philosopher, and critic (died 1834)
1790 (236 years ago) Alphonse de Lamartine, French poet and politician, French Head of State (died 1869)
1833 (193 years ago) Alfred Nobel, Swedish chemist and engineer, invented dynamite and founded the Nobel Prize (died 1896)
1929 (97 years ago) Ursula K. Le Guin, American author and critic (died 2018)
1949 (77 years ago) Benjamin Netanyahu, Israeli captain and politician, 9th Prime Minister of Israel
1956 (70 years ago) Carrie Fisher, American actress and screenwriter (died 2016)
1980 (46 years ago) Kim Kardashian, American reality television personality, actress, model, businesswoman and socialite
1981 (45 years ago) Nemanja Vidić, Serbian footballer

1422 (604 years ago) Charles VI of France,
1805 (221 years ago) Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson, English admiral (born 1758)
1931 (95 years ago) Arthur Schnitzler, Austrian author and playwright (born 1862)
1969 (57 years ago) Jack Kerouac, American novelist and poet (born 1922)
1978 (48 years ago) Anastas Mikoyan, Armenian-Russian civil servant and politician (born 1895)
1984 (42 years ago) François Truffaut, French actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (born 1932)
2014 (12 years ago) Gough Whitlam, Australian lieutenant, lawyer, and politician, 21st Prime Minister of Australia (born 1916)
2023 (3 years ago) Bobby Charlton, English footballer and manager (born 1937)